Re: [H] Help! Bino MSI Win10 Pro laptop random lockup issues

2017-11-01 Thread Bino Gopal
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

Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem

2017-11-01 Thread Brian Weeden
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...@com

Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem

2017-11-01 Thread Thane K. Sherrington
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 t

Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem

2017-11-01 Thread Thane K. Sherrington
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,

Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem

2017-11-01 Thread Winterlight
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 lapt

Re: [H] Windows 10 Boot problem

2017-11-01 Thread Lubomír Čabla
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

[H] Windows 10 Boot problem

2017-11-01 Thread Thane K. Sherrington
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

[H] Pax Unplugged

2017-11-01 Thread Christopher Fisk
Hey folks, Anyone going to Unplugged this year? Chris