Windows 10: Desperate - PC just crashed while playing a video and can't reboot

The boot sector may have failed.

 

That sounds plausible. So how can it be repaired? How can this happen by watching a video?

 

I only offered a help as to check the cables sometimes cables can be partly connected and you can still get data or look at it but not be able to boot has happened tome on several occasions, was only a suggestion, but as i said it could also be a bad sector on your boot partition, which in turn the drive is bad and will need to be replaced, drives can only have so many relocated sector counts before they just go bye bye. i have a drive i know and its my main drive that someday it will go bye bye as it has few relocated sector counts, but i have all , programs backed up and a new 2 tb model inside ready to go granted its a laptop drive but it will work none the less. as a blog i follow frequently ask Leo always says back up back up as you never no when a drive will go bye bye.

 

Boot Disk: Partition Boot Sector is damaged <------ you can try this if it does not work then you have a bad sector on the drive like i said and it will need replaced.

 

How can I burn that image file linked to in an earlier post - Kyhl's bootable rescue disc? I right-click the downloaded ISO in Linux and I get an option to open in disk image writer. But in my list of drives, my DVD burner is listed as read-only, so I don't have the option to burn the disc. Why is it listed as read-only in linux? If I can burn that disc I can try using that to run a chkdsk or system restore.

 

Try to write it on USB flash drive. Sorry my Linux knowledge is also limited, but it should recognize USB drive if you put it in.
UNetbootin is popular program for Linux.

 

If you can get to a cmd prompt and you have legacy bios type in the following:

BootRec / FixBoot
BootRec / FixMBr
BootRec / RebuildBCD --Do this ONLY if you have too.

 

I just finished successfully burning the bootable rescue disk to DVD using Brasero. I'll first try to pull up a cmd prompt using the Windows 10 installer thumb drive and I'll try your commands above. If I have no luck or can't pull up a cmd prompt I'll give the rescue disk a try. I'll post back here in a bit with an update.

 

I ran the following in the cmd prompt of the recovery CD I burned:

x:\windows\system32>BootRec /FixBoot
x:\windows\system32>BootRec /FixMBR

both said completed successfully, but it was instantaneous and didn't seem to do anything. I still can't boot into windows. I'm not sure if I did it right - should the cmd prompt say "x:\windows\system32>"?

I tried it from the Windows installer thumb drive and ran into the same issue. I'm not sure if I'm entering the commend right.

I haven't tried "RebuildBCD" yet because I'm not sure I'm doing this correctly. I have a feeling the boorec.exe is the key here to fixing my PC, but I don't know if I'm doing it correctly. Here's a page that discusses this:

http://www.digitalcitizen.life/fix-p...g-start-repair

 

You heve to CD yourself out of X: and into C: CD X: C: then do those commands. You will get there..

 

Ah, okay - I should know how to CD out and to the right place but I'm always confused how to do that. Right now I'm at:

C:\>

in the cmd prompt.

 

Good no type in those commans one at a time BootRec / FixBoot
then BootRec / FixMBR

then try to boot without doing that last one.

 

Okay - i'll try rebooting now and see what happens.

 

YES! My PC has booted back into Windows! I can't thank you enough!

At first I still got the "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected device and press a key." message, but then I rebooted again this time hitting F12, to pull up the boot selector, and I manually selected the first option "Windows Boot Manager", and it booted right into my desktop like nothing ever happened.

So what's the next step? Should I run chkdsk on both my C drive and my 2nd data drive now to be sure everything is okay?

And what can I do to see what happened here to begin with? Now I'm afraid to play a video again in media player classic. I've had nothing like this happen since I've been using my PC. I've had media players crash a few times, but it never took down the OS like this before. What could have happened?

Also there's a "Recovery.txt" file in my C: root now. Is it safe to get rid of that? It's empty.

 

remove that if it is empty. I to play it safe would run a chkdsk from a CMD Prompt. If you want to thank me press that thumbs up button on the far left. I am very happy that I was able to help you. You may want to download Macrium Reflect 7.0 it is a free backup program where you can image or clone your HD. You should be able to get it here: Download Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - MajorGeeks . Welcome to TF BTW:*Thumbs