[H] Pax Unplugged
Hey folks, Anyone going to Unplugged this year? Chris
[H] Windows 10 Boot problem
I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot device" message in Windows 10. I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment and then: Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /rebuildbcd But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - all the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no boot. So I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I can't find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. Any ideas? T
Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE: 1. go into your BIOS and make sure the HDD is set to AHCI because if you have it set to IDE it will crash (and conversely) 2. are you using EFI boot mode? 3. try just this - boot to safe mode only, then select reboot and Windows should be back to normal (maybe) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot device" > message in Windows 10. > > I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment and > then: > > Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with > > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /rebuildbcd > > But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - all > the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no boot. So > I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I can't > find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. > > Any ideas? > > T > > >
Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem
Are you sure there are no external drives are plugged in? External drives can sometimes re-order the way 10 sees the drives. I have had this happen more then once with windows 10. On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot device" > message in Windows 10. > > I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment and > then: > > Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with > > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /rebuildbcd > > But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - all > the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no boot. So > I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I can't > find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. > > Any ideas? > > T > > >
Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem
No external drives. I can boot to a flash drive or DVD (I'm booting to DVD to get into RE. T Are you sure there are no external drives are plugged in? External drives can sometimes re-order the way 10 sees the drives. I have had this happen more then once with windows 10. On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot device" > message in Windows 10. > > I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment and > then: > > Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with > > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /rebuildbcd > > But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - all > the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no boot. So > I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I can't > find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. > > Any ideas? > > T > > >
Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem
AHCI is on, UEFI is off (this is an older machine, upgraded from 7). These settings haven't changed. I can't boot to either Safe Mode - everything goes to inaccessible boot device. T On 01/11/2017 4:23 PM, Lubomír Čabla wrote: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE: 1. go into your BIOS and make sure the HDD is set to AHCI because if you have it set to IDE it will crash (and conversely) 2. are you using EFI boot mode? 3. try just this - boot to safe mode only, then select reboot and Windows should be back to normal (maybe) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot device" message in Windows 10. I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment and then: Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /rebuildbcd But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - all the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no boot. So I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I can't find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. Any ideas? T
Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem
It could be a bad sector on the boot section of the drive. Spinrite is a useful tool for diagnosing that, and in some cases fixing it to the point where you can at least boot the drive and/or get the data off it. - Brian On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > No external drives. I can boot to a flash drive or DVD (I'm booting to > DVD to get into RE. > > T > > > > Are you sure there are no external drives are plugged in? External drives >> can sometimes re-order the way 10 sees the drives. I have had this happen >> more then once with windows 10. >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < >>> th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: >>> >>> > I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot >>> device" >>> > message in Windows 10. >>> > >>> > I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment >>> and >>> > then: >>> > >>> > Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with >>> > >>> > bootrec /fixmbr >>> > bootrec /fixboot >>> > bootrec /rebuildbcd >>> > >>> > But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - >>> all >>> > the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no >>> boot. So >>> > I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I >>> can't >>> > find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. >>> > >>> > Any ideas? >>> > >>> > T >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> > > >
Re: [H] Help! Bino MSI Win10 Pro laptop random lockup issues
Ok, so I know you all have been waiting with bated breath for an update on my issue so here it is: Looks like my freezing problem is gone! TL;DR: Pretty sure a cracked USB/audio board was causing short-circuits that were leading to my random freezes! More details: So on the very front left side of the laptop is a small board that has the mic/headphone jack and 3 USB 3.0 ports on it. Now I've got two wireless mice I use, one at my desk, and a smaller one for when I'm on the road, which both have dongles that I plugged in there... I didn't start using the desktop mouse until a few weeks after I got the laptop and it had a bigger dongle that stuck out more than the other, smaller mouse. So I'm pretty sure that as I was pulling the laptop out of my laptop bag I've had for like 15 years the bigger dongle got caught on the fabric of the sleeve and I probably yanked it out w/o thinking, leading to the broken board... **Now the reason I didn't notice any problems at the time was b/c the USB ports still worked-but I probably cracked the board a bit at that point and I'm pretty sure that over time the crack got bigger...but again the USB ports were still working so I was blissfully ignorant-and in fact the headphone jack was still working too! Then a couple months later (and AFTER I'd emailed you guys-so I still had no idea there was a potential HW issue!) the headphone jack stopped working which is when I started looking more closely at it and realized that the headphone port was moving in quite a bit when I tried to plug headphones in-but even then I thought the ports were just loose and needed to be tightened down-still not knowing there was a break in the board or anything-I never even imagined that being the case (since I thought it was all one motherboard...!) and the USB ports were still fine... Now fast-forward to 9/1 when I broke the left hinge of the laptop screen by grabbing it in the wrong place and trying to close it-with not too much force btw-(apparently a known issue with models this thin, which is the only negative I see with it as my WEI is a 9.2 with this monster which is pretty amazeballs!). Fortunately MSI has a repair center not too far from me here in LA in the City of Industry 30 mins away (btw, I highly recommended buying a machine with a local repair center!). I called and they said I could come in and that they could probably fix it the same day-which would be amazeballs as opposed to the 1 week turnaround time it would otherwise take to mail it in-on top of being w/o my primary (and only) machine that I use for work and everything else! So I drove right over posthaste and they fixed the screen in a few hours (dropped it off at 1pm, got lunch, chilled and got a massage, and then picked it up at 5pm!). Stellar service, A+++, highly recommended btw! That's when I found out that the board was cracked and that it should be replaced-but they didn’t have one in stock so they'd have to order it and have me come back to replace it. But I was happy to do so since I now knew where they were and I wanted to see if my freezes would continue or not as I'd explained it to them but they didn’t have any ideas-and they ran a complete system check which didn't notice any problems btw! Since I was suspicious that it was maybe a hardware issue causing my problems I took very careful notice to see if I had any freezes after they replaced the screen-and I noticed not a one! Which was making me initially think that maybe something got fixed when they replaced the screen...like a cable that had been pinched or mis-seated, etc. **BUT now that I think about it more, I'm certain that it was because that they noticed that the board had a space behind it-which is what allowed it to crack in the first place as I yanked on it-and the freezes probably happened when the board moved or flexed and cause some sort of short-circuit to the system...and so they put a nice foam piece in that space behind the board so it wouldn’t shift/move back anymore! It was nice and firm after that-and again while the headphone jack didn’t work the USB ports continued to function just fine! Now I went back exactly 4 weeks later on 9/29 to replace the board and again, it's been over just another month and still not a single freeze! As I mentioned already, I was going to initially say that maybe some cable or something was pinched in the config from the factory-but that doesn't make sense as the laptop had no freezes for the first 2 months (3/15 to 5/11) and then they just started happening out of seemingly nowhere...which now tracks more with me likely cracking the board and then random short-circuits causing the freezes right?! Thoughts? Make sense to everyone? Or any other alternative explanations? Figure it's a good lesson to know the details so as to remind ourselves to always check layer 1, i.e. the hardware first when random stuff like that just starts happ
