All of the NTFS hard links disappear, where are hardlinks stored on disk and how to recover them?
- by Osiris
This is Windows 7 x64 sp1 on a NTFS file system.
All hardlinks within C:\Windows\System32 folder disappear, and the Windows can't boot, because even the osloader, C:\Windows\System32\boot\Winload.exe also disappeared.
Nevertheless, the original files are still located in the corresponding C:\Windows\winsxs folders. After booting into the Recovery…