Is it an EFI-based system? Do you need to mount the EFI partition to a
drive letter?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/windows-10-bootrec-fixboot-access-is-denied/747c4180-7ff3-4bc2-b6cc-81e572d546df?auth=1
has something about the EFI partition if so.
On
That was a good idea. I ran SpinRite (no problems found) but the
bootrec /fixboot still gives "access denied". So then I cloned the
drive to a brand new drive, but it's the same problem.
There must be another MBR fix utility out there.
T
On 01/11/2017 4:39 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:
It could
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.
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Brian
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:36 PM, 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
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
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
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
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
