Windows 10: BSOD: 'Recovery' operations are NEVER successful

I get periodic (varies between daily and once every 2 weeks) occasions where my PC (HP-23-B222EA as delivered with 2T WD HDD in place of Seagate 1T) freezes and produces a 'BSOD' with some sort of automatic recovery operation trying to recover the machine. I have tried the various other methods available through this recovery screen, including a DOS prompt and the only result from that indicate that the HDD is no longer available.


These 'Recovery' operations are NEVER successful and the only way out that I have discovered is to manually shut down and reboot. Sometimes this works but mostly I find that I have an unbootable HDD which has to be restored from an image recovery file made previously by Acronis True Image. Sometimes these images are up to a week out of date. Before recovery from the image I can sometimes view the HDD as a 'slave' using a USB HDD connection and it would appear that all my data and files are still there, it just won't boot.


I have replaced the HDD with the same results. I have run chkdsk on the drive once it's up and running again and there are no errors. I have run mdsched and the resulting event log said that all was in order. I have tried to update all the drivers to current. I am running MS Windows 10 V1803 OS build 17134.285.


The HDD currently installed is a WD 2T 'Green' (WD20EZRX-00D8PB0) although a WD 2T 'Blue' (WD20EZRZ00Z5HB0) has the same problems. The machine had been running pretty much faultlessly for some 4 years, ever since the 2T HDD was installed until sometime this spring. This replacement of the Seagate 1T HDD gave a substantial increase in PC speed.


How can I solve this?

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Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.

 

Data recovery software

The Big Useful List Of Free Useful Programs To Use Usually For Free

click the top spoiler and then look down to recovery.

All of the suggestions in the old threads were consolidated into that one.

 

Programs not working

In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.