Windows 10: Cannot boot windows 10

A collegue has had a problem with her Windows 10 box and I'm trying to help her.

When the machine starts, we see the ble windows flag and then the machine produces a mouse-pointer with the circle for waiting... And this goes on for hours. At most we had it a day, just to see if something indeed was happening.


I've then created a recovery USB stick using MediaCreationTool1803.exe


When trying to repair from this, it doesn't find anything to repair, but only to clean install. But when I check from the cmd, I see there are some info left, but maybe a pointer have been lost?


When I start CMD from the recovery USB stick, I'm on x:

C: points to an empty 'System' partition

D: points to the ESD_USB stick.

E: points to a partition where the old Win 10 installation seems to be located.

(F and G points to HP recovery points, but the machine originally had Windows 7 on it and I'd prefer not to perform a factory reset back to that, unless absolutely neccessary).


Does anyone have any ideas how I can repair this machine, so I can use the info on the E: partition?


Things tested:

More info, using DiscPart from the recoverystick and checking with 'list volume', there is no 'boot' partition (Info column is empty)...

Will check if the bootrec is available.


Ok, bootrec /FixMbr works, however when I do a bootrec /FixBoot, I get Access denied...


Found a hint to use bcdboot and tried bcdboot e:\windows (e: being the driveletter for the windows volume).

- didn't help...


chkdsk e: /f /r

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Windows 10 USB boot

Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

There is three options:
Windows 10
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 N

Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks

 

windows 10 slow boot

I was having a slow boot issue on my Windows 7 install a little while back. It would take about 30 - 40 extra seconds to boot up for whatever reason.

I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

http://www.disk-partition.com/kb/tips-ssd-optimization-windows7-1.html

Looks to be similar to this: https://www.back2gaming.com/focus-story/ssd-optimization-for-windows-10-windows-8-and-8-1/


In the end, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 entirely to fix the booting issue. It was taking around 35 seconds to boot, and after the fresh install it takes about 7 seconds to boot.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.