1TB solid state drive (SSD) + 32GB Optane on HP - Spectre 15-eb0053dx - can't access hard drive after Windows 11 update.
HP claims that the 1TB solid state drive (SSD) + 32GB Optane, "While offering less storage space than a hard drive, a flash-based SSD has no moving parts, resulting in faster start-up times and data access, no noise, and reduced heat production and power draw on the battery.", but I just did a recent Windows 11 update before I went to bed and when I woke up it was still spinning and not finished and I should have just gotten on my phone and did a search for what my options were but I did a hard shutdown and tried to restart it and it won't find my hard drive.
I've been using ChatGPT, and tried using Rufus to put Hiren’s BootCD PE on a USB thumb drive. With it I was able to discover it deep in an unreachable place so ChatGPT suggested I try to unpair the hard drive from Optane but I still can't get it to recognize my hard drive.
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this type of hard drive and has any suggestions to access it. I can't just put it in an external enclosure since it's still appears to be tied with the Optane. I would really like to try to get the data off of it. The laptop is from January of 2022 and I had planned on buying a new laptop, but Best Buy screwed up my order and canceled it, and now I'm in a real pickle.