- Jun 17, 2005
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Quick rundown of the situation:
- Oldish PC with 2 HDDs, one of them has been showing signs of failure recently
- Earlier today it still worked, then I went to shut it off and got a BSOD (something about videoport.sys, doesn't sound relevant because there are no video problems otherwise)
- I connected a new SSD (to replace both drives once I migrated my data over)
- Now Win10 doesn't boot, just goes into "Preparing automatic repair", fails to repair anything
- SrtTrail.txt stops at "Disk metadata test", which "completed successfully" with error code 0x32. No idea what that means.
- I can run a command prompt in WinPE but do litte else
Things I have tried:
- Disconnected the SSD, reset BIOS by removing the battery from the motherboard
- Going to Startup Settings and hitting Restart doesn't present me with the startup menu, it just goes to "preparing automatic repair" again. So I can't boot into safe mode.
- chkdsk apparently fixed a bunch of errors on one of the drives, now it reports no errors on either drive
- sfc /scannow /offbootdir /offwindir fails with "windows resource protection could not start the repair service", even if I do "net start trustedinstaller" beforehand (which says it started the service successfully)
- bootrec /rebuildbcd shows 0 installations, but if I boot to WinPE using a Win10 boot CD, it recognizes the Win10 install on the machine. bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot did not help either
- System restore fails with 0x81000204, which also sounds like HD failure/data corruption of some kind
- Copied the contents of %windir%\config\RegBack\ to %windir%\config
- Probably some more stuff that I'm forgetting right now (I've been frantically googling for the past couple hours)
Things I am reluctant to try:
- "Go back to previous version". The machine originally had Win7 on it, and decided to automatically update itself to Win10 one night. This was some time ago, I'm not sure why this option is still there, and I don't want to risk not being able to upgrade again.
- "Reset this PC". Since I don't have a Win10 install disk, I don't know if this could help at all.
- Cloning the drive from the recovery command prompt. Not even sure if it's possible, and I might end up cloning the OS in its corrupted state.
What else can I try to get the system up and running again?
- Oldish PC with 2 HDDs, one of them has been showing signs of failure recently
- Earlier today it still worked, then I went to shut it off and got a BSOD (something about videoport.sys, doesn't sound relevant because there are no video problems otherwise)
- I connected a new SSD (to replace both drives once I migrated my data over)
- Now Win10 doesn't boot, just goes into "Preparing automatic repair", fails to repair anything
- SrtTrail.txt stops at "Disk metadata test", which "completed successfully" with error code 0x32. No idea what that means.
- I can run a command prompt in WinPE but do litte else
Things I have tried:
- Disconnected the SSD, reset BIOS by removing the battery from the motherboard
- Going to Startup Settings and hitting Restart doesn't present me with the startup menu, it just goes to "preparing automatic repair" again. So I can't boot into safe mode.
- chkdsk apparently fixed a bunch of errors on one of the drives, now it reports no errors on either drive
- sfc /scannow /offbootdir /offwindir fails with "windows resource protection could not start the repair service", even if I do "net start trustedinstaller" beforehand (which says it started the service successfully)
- bootrec /rebuildbcd shows 0 installations, but if I boot to WinPE using a Win10 boot CD, it recognizes the Win10 install on the machine. bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot did not help either
- System restore fails with 0x81000204, which also sounds like HD failure/data corruption of some kind
- Copied the contents of %windir%\config\RegBack\ to %windir%\config
- Probably some more stuff that I'm forgetting right now (I've been frantically googling for the past couple hours)
Things I am reluctant to try:
- "Go back to previous version". The machine originally had Win7 on it, and decided to automatically update itself to Win10 one night. This was some time ago, I'm not sure why this option is still there, and I don't want to risk not being able to upgrade again.
- "Reset this PC". Since I don't have a Win10 install disk, I don't know if this could help at all.
- Cloning the drive from the recovery command prompt. Not even sure if it's possible, and I might end up cloning the OS in its corrupted state.
What else can I try to get the system up and running again?