Windows 10: Boot Error

My laptop with Win10 is not booting. After hanging for about a minute on the Boot Page (the first that appears after turning on) I get a page which keeps repeating the following message:

Broadcom UNDI PXE-2.1 v11.0.11
Copyright (C) 2000-2000 Broadcom Corporation
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
All rights reserved.
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM.

I had the exact same issue 8 months ago. See this thread. However, when I now run chkdsk C: from installation media, I get the message ¨Cannot open volume for direct access.¨

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Windows Phone 8.1 update on Nokia Lumia 925 error 80188309

Same problem.

With Lumia 1520 (Dutch phone with os v. 8.0.10532.166).

First downloading, than preparation (where 96% takes a bit looonger)

Than it starts installing, at 2% is suddenly gives the famous error..

 

Windows 10 Product Key Blocked

I had the same thing.

I did the Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 upgrade and activated Windows 10 successfully. I then downloaded the media creation kit, created a bootable USB and did a fresh installation of Windows 10. This second installation would not activate and told me the key
had been blocked.

I spent about two hours on the phone to Microsoft who failed to get it activated. It's been escalated to their tier III support and I'm getting a call back this evening. I'll come back here and report how I got on.

 

Suggest you see if you can read your disk having booted from an external boot medium, whether a linux bootable disk or other boot disk or even a command prompt from your Win 10 disk.

Older boot disks that offered helpful utilities aren't UEFI compatible, last I looked. Hopefully there is one out there.

You could check its partition structure with Minitools bootable disk (partition manager).

Aim to check its SMART parameters.

Do you have disk image backups you could restore? This is a strongly recommended approach that helps avoid needing technical solutions.

 

Solved. Disk wasn't inserted properly... Been moving around with the laptop in my backpack a lot lately. Didn't have a proper screw driver to open hatch with at first, but I should have got one and checked first before posting! Sorry for wasting your time.

 

Great you found it. Disks don't normally move by themselves, though..usually fixed pretty well..maybe you were unlucky.