Windows 10 - Can't Boot

[gulshannegi]

I upgraded Windows 10 some time ago. It was successful and I was able to keep all my personal files. Now I can't boot into Windows 10. I started my Laptop today, after some time i kept getting errors and couldn't launch anything, then I decided to restart. When I restarted, was greeted by a message on the bottom, something about checking the hard drive for corruption My Laptop restarted after some time I saw "Automatic repair couldn't repair your PC". I tried to restart. When that didn't work I tried every single thing in the "Advanced" tab. I looked up my issue online and put in several different commands into the command prompt running from the X: drive (Win10's recovery drive I think). Nothing worked.

I tried the reset, choosing "keep personal files". This was followed by a message that said Windows couldn't reset. I also tried going back to the latest update and "reverting" to Windows 10 to see similar errors. I can't start the Windows 10 drive in safe mode, because every time I go to the "Startup Settings" menu and press restart, Windows 10 goes back to the Automatic Repair thing. I can't start in safe mode or do any of the other actions on that menu because of this. I guess I could just install Windows 10 from scratch and copy needed personal files, but this would take lots of time and effort. Is there any way to get back to my normal Windows 10?

 

[britechguy]

Given that it sounds like you have done a lot of messing about, and you cannot boot into Windows 10 at all, I'd say you are not going to be able to fix this.

There are times when Doing a Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool to Create Bootable Win10 Install Media on a USB Thumb Drive ends up being the most time efficient thing to do after you know you've saved your user data.

You also need to take a look at the SMART stats for your disc drive immediately afterward, even before copying any saved data back, since this could be the result of a hard drive going into the early stages of failure. It would be a good idea to look at this when you have it connected to another machine for the purposes of extracting your user data. If the drive is going bad you do not want to be reusing it, and you really should clone it to a known good drive even before trying to copy off the user data. You never know when a failing drive will tip into "completely failed" and in doing a clone you hope that it won't fail during that process, but the cloned copy is safe to hit as much as you want for data.

Not to rub salt in an open wound, but this is one of those times that points up how essential it is for any computer user to take a full system image backup on a routine cycle, with "off cycle" ones taken if you do something like install a lot of new software, upload a ton of new photos, etc. You can restore from a full system image very quickly when messes like this occur. After you have things back to working make sure to obtain an external backup drive and establish a routine full system image backup on a fixed cycle.

 

[zbook]

Please perform the following steps:

1) Find 3 flash drives that you can format (> or = 8 GB)

2) Make tools that can be used to recover important files, test the drives, and troubleshoot

3) Find a working computer to create the tools

4) Comment into the thread once you have the flash drives and a working computer

5) Find a camera or smartphone camera to take pictures and upload pictures into the thread

 

[gulshannegi]

Please perform the following steps:

1) Find 3 flash drives that you can format (> or = 8 GB)

2) Make tools that can be used to recover important files, test the drives, and troubleshoot

3) Find a working computer to create the tools

4) Comment into the thread once you have the flash drives and a working computer

5) Find a camera or smartphone camera to take pictures and upload pictures into the thread

Thanks for the suggestion I found this Last known good configuration as a boot option - windows 10 and How to Boot Windows Into Last Known Good Configuration? [Solved] while searching on the internet. this helps me to boot the windows and save my files.

 

[zbook]

1) Run the Sysnative log collector:
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions - Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 + Vista

1) Open administrative command prompt (ACP) and type or copy and paste:
2) sfc /scannow
3) dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth
4) dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
5) sfc /scannow
6) chkdsk /scan
7) bcdedit /enum {badmemory}

8) When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread

9) Open disk management > by default some columns are compressed > widen each Status and Volume > make sure the contents within the parenthesis are in full view and that none of the characters are cutoff > view disk 0 > widen this row as needed so that all of the characters are in full view > post an image into the thread
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of

10) Download and install Minitool Partition Wizard > click launch > post an image of the results into this thread
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition
MiniTool Portable Partition Magic Brings Easier Disk Management

 

[britechguy]

As an aside, there is really no benefit to using the /scanhealth switch on DISM followed by /restorehealth. The /restorehealth process already does the underlying processes that /scanhealth does, and /scanhealth was really intended as a reporting mechanism.

To the OP, if you're able to boot into Windows 10 again I would definitely get all your user data copied, first, but then I'd go directly to Doing a Windows 10 Repair Install or Feature Update Using the Windows 10 ISO file

For myself, when I want any number of problems under Windows 10 solved, a Repair Install tends to wipe all of them out with one fell swoop.