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Urgent help! root.disk suddendly became 0 bytes, in Q4OS Aquarium

Hello, forum. I'm in deserate need, as root.disk suddendly became 0 bytes, in Q4OS Aquarium installed with windows installer, in a Win10 PC. Everything was fine, till I booted today in Win10 and it did an update.
Afterwords I tryed to boot in Q4OS, and got the following message:
"Boot chainload, phase 1 ...unmount: can't unmount /host1: Invalid argument Host filesystem not found, make Windows partition accessible. Press [Enter} to reboot .."

Afterwords I loaded a live linux disk and checked my partitions with Gparted. The partition where Q4OS was installed, could not checked in, and the program prompt for a CHKDSK /F,witch I did, after leaving to boot again in Win10.

Now the partition was accessible, and fount out that root.disk became 0 bytes.

If I try to boot now in Q4OS, Boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox but without a working keyboard, to input anything.

It is my first time, using Q4OS, especialy with the windows installer. Can anyone help me, in a way to access the root.disk file, even reporting 0 bytes? I have a very important folder on /home/Deskop, that is crucial to be recovered.

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Re: Urgent help! root.disk suddendly became 0 bytes, in Q4OS Aquarium

If the "root.disk" dropped to 0 bytes for some reason, it couldn't be recovered. The only option is to restore from a backup, it you have any.

Afterwords I loaded a live linux disk and checked my partitions with Gparted. The partition where Q4OS was installed, could not checked in, and the program prompt for a CHKDSK /F,witch I did, after leaving to boot again in Win10.

Since you are prompted to type "CHKDSK /F", there is a problem with Windows. The most likely cause is data inconsistency, but it could also be a physical disk failure.