Windows 10: Boot failure, Windows won't boot from drive.

When I started my computer up today I got "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key",restarting returns the same error, selecting the drive in BIOS and booting up does nothing. I burned "Bootable rescue disk - Windows 10" to a cd and ran Macrium Reflect to fix windows boot with no success. Checking the drive using C: Properties -> Tools -> Error checking didn't turn up any errors.

The only thing I can think of now is reinstalling windows 10 from a USB. Any help would be appreciated.

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Help! My Windows 10 Computer won't boot at all!

Aren't you trying to repair Windows 10 which you said won't boot? Well that is on a hard drive or SSD.

What exactly are you trying to boot? A flash stick or DVD? Is it a
Windows 10 Recovery Drive or Windows 10 installation media? You can repair from either. But you need to get it booted. I gave you steps to try to get it booted. Then follow

Troubleshooting Windows 8 and 10 Failure to Start - Microsoft Community.

 

Help! My Windows 10 Computer won't boot at all!

Are you booting the media as a UEFI device if you have the UEFI firmware which replaced BIOS in modern PC's? It won't work otherwise.

In the UEFI firmware or BIOS setup you said you can get into, what are the settings for UEFI, CSM, Legacy BIOS, Secure Boot and the Boot order priority? It should be hard drive first for BIOS or Windows Boot Manager first for UEFI. Boot the media using
only the
BIOS Boot Menu Key.

Is the hard drive detected in BIOS setup anywhere? If not try reinstalling it. Try booting the media with it unplugged to see if it's blocking boot.

If it still won't boot correctly then
Create Windows 10 Installation Media. Confirm it works in another PC. Try DVD if flash doesn't work.

If it still fails try unplugging the hard drive

Everything possible is here for
Troubleshooting Windows 8 and 10 Failure to Start - Microsoft Community

 

Hi, if you haven't done so, please download Kyhi's bootable disk from the top of the Software and Apps section here (maybe that's the one you have- I don't know).

Run HDTune from that disk to check your internal disk, and post a screenshot of the result.
To post a screenshot please use the Insert Image icon to the left of the video icon above your post

You need to be sure your disk is ok before proceeding. If it isn't, get a new one - you might wish to upgrade to a SSD.

If the disk is ok, you could also post a screenshot of the partitions using Minitool Partition Wizard on Kyhi's disk.

Do you use disk imaging? If you do, as we strongly and continually advise, you're fine and can recover without a clean install, even if you have to buy a new disk.

If not, then
if you can still image your system partition ('C:'), then
if your disk is ok, you can still make use of your existing system partition
Note: if your disk is failing, attempting to image it may well fail with a CRC error

Here's how:
1. Image your existing C:
2. Reinstall the same major build of Win 10 on your existing disk - if good- else on a new disk
3. Restore the image of your existing C: in place of the newly created C:
4. Run Startup Repair

 

Maybe your MBR on boot disk is corrupted or your boot disk might not be the first one listed in BIOS disk boot order. Before you reinstall Windows, there is a bootrec command you could try to recover the MBR if that might be the problem, but you have to have a command prompt to run it. I think you run bootrec /? to see the available options for bootrec. It might be worth a try before you reinstall Windows.

 

We will find out whether the disks are GPT or MBR if Tempt506 responds to request for a screenshot.
Whats the Difference Between GPT and MBR When Partitioning a Drive?
The Differences Between MBR and GPT - Make Tech Easier

 

Here are the screenshots

 

Hi, actually it's the Health tab that's of interest:



(Hard Disk Sentinel gives a better indication, but is not on the disk)

I'm afraid I don't understand your Minitool screenshot. There's no drive letter, there should be more than one partition.

Yours is MBR (legacy BIOS) it seems, so will have fewer partitions than mine (shown as DISK 2).
Ignore EFGH Disk 1.




If that's what is on your disk (as shown in your screenshot) it's not surprising it won't boot. Even the file system is shown as 'Other'.

 

Here's the screenshot. Nothing else shows up on the minitool.

 

Ok, your physical disk seems ok, but the content is the problem.

If you had a disk image, you could have restored that.

Without that my first thought is, should you not have backups, to attempt any data recovery you can, then clean install.

So you could, for example, in Minitool PW, try rt clicking the partition, explore, and see if there's anything readable.
If that shows nothing, then you can try partition recovery tools.
(E.g. Minitool PW, Disk, Partition recovery).

It may be your partition table has been damaged.

 

This turned up from a full scan using the minitool

 

This is from a quick scan




Should I try to restore the top partition (1863.02 GB)?

 

From the last, these look like
Recovery (rather small)
EFI
C:
Recovery

You can easily verify C: as you can double click to explore it... try that.

It is possible to have two Recovery partitions, only one being in use.

If so, yours is a UEFI configuration - is that correct?
However it's listed as MBR (I don't know if that's just misleading at this stage).

But there should be a 16Mb System partition and that's not apparent.

Example- my UEFI partitions



-----------------------------------------
This is what I see if I explore my 100Mb EFI partition




And Recovery




If you can recover C: and image it to another disk using Macrium Reflect, there is a way to completely recover your PC even if the 16Mb partition is missing. I would take the opportunity to create that image as soon as you can.

You can also try recovering all the partitions I've mentioned, then running Macrium Fixboot on the disk.

 

Alright I explored the partitions, the first one has a size of 300 MB that says Recovery on the label.
300 MB



99.00 MB




1862.06 GB Which is C:



449.00 MB

 

If you're happy with restoring those, go ahead. Take due precautions- image C: as soon as you have the chance.

And remember- you're looking for a 16Mb partition, else your PC won't boot. I believe you have enough information to proceed from what I've posted above at least to the point of using Macrium's Fix Boot utility e.g. from Kyhi's boot disk or Macrium's boot medium.