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Report On Those Windows 10 Problems After Repairs

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by r.leale, 2018/03/02.

  1. 2018/03/02
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    r.leale Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I suppose this tale should really be in the PC hardware forum but I wanted it to follow the problems
    with Windows 10 I had recently.
    Monday Night
    I complained that it was running OK after the hardware changes but slowly. Installed Firefox, Thunderbird
    and downloaded Photoshop CC then closed down for the night.

    Tuesday midday
    Booted into a blue screen. Not the BSOD but a pale blue screen explaining that no OS was found.
    Disconnected all HDDs except the SSD that Windows was installed on.
    Booted into Bios, showed OS on SSD.
    Booted from EasyUs disc, found OS on SSD as MBR disc.
    Booted into Windows install ISO DVD and selected 'Repair your PC' and ran the repair commands.
    >/fixmbr - ran successfully
    >/fixboot - access denied
    >/scanos - No OS found

    Booted from ISO and installed Windows 10 Home. This install ran entirely differently from the
    install of Monday with new steps included- DOB, email address, set up pin number, and a few others. It
    finished very much faster than previous installs but did not install any new drivers but just left all
    the MS generic drivers. Identified as Windows 1709 Build 16299 125.

    I then decide that I had to find out what was wrong with the Crucial SSD that I had all the problems with.
    So:
    1 I installed it into a rack and into an empty HDD slot.
    2 Booted into Windows, the SSD was found in MY PC but was shown as almost empty with a small reserved
    partition of about 38mb.
    3 Looked at the SSD in Disk Management, tried to format it but I was warned by Windows that this this
    would convert it into a dynamic disc, which it did.
    4 Opened True Image and tried to clone the OS SSD to the now empty Crucial SSD. Refused because it
    was a dynamic disc.
    5 Rebooted into EasyUs and converted it into a logical disc.
    6 TI then cloned the OS to the spare SSD.

    I shall let things rest for a while whilst my brain cools down then try booting through F12 or BIOS .

    Roger
     

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