Windows 10: How do I fix INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE?

My mom gave me her old laptop that was signed into her account. I wanted to completely start over, like CLEAN CLEAN it, and start over with my user. When I reset it and deleted everything, I chose to download locally or whatever the option was to not have to do it manually. It did its thing for a super long time and it starting resetting. Now and error page keeps popping up every minute saying that there was a problem and it needs to reset. It says it is resetting itself and the stop code is INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. The page disappears and it goes back to resetting or loading, I actually have

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How to fix INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - Windows 10 Pro

If you can get into safe mode, go into device manager and uninstall any hardware listed under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. When you uninstall the controller, check the box for delete the driver software for this device. Then try to reboot into normal mode.

 

How to fix INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - Windows 10 Pro

Hi there,

OS: Windows 10 professional
Hardware: I don't know




I am sitting here at work early on a Sunday morning in desperation to fix my colleague's computer which I got to the state of receiving the above error. Below I have detailed how I got into this problem yesterday (24 March) and what I have tried to fix it myself before taxing this forum. Please, any suggestions on what to do next would be HUGELY appreciated.

STEPS THAT GOT ME TO THE BIG BLUE SCREEN

1. My colleague never reboots his computer - I don't even know if it has been rebooted this year before I rebooted it yesterday (24 March)
2. I was on his machine and iTunes kept on saying it needed to be updated. So I did this for him. iTunes asked me if I wanted to restart, I said "not now"
3. Then in Excel I saw there was a message saying "Office needs to be updated". So I clicked to update. I was then asked to restart - I said yes. And the PC restarted.
4. I then got the big blue screen and have not been able to get passed it since

WHAT I THEN TRIED TO FIX IT

• Safe Mode (via Advanced Options F5 / F4): after rebooting I was back at the blue screen
• System Restore: I tried all 3 restore points, each time the PC said it had been successful. Each time I returned to the blue screen after restarting
  
  
  

INSTALLED PACKAGES: "Dism /Image:C:\ /Get-Packages"
I found a forum said I need to get a list of packages using the above command. Then I need to uninstall the "problematic" package. Again, since I don't know when last my colleague rebooted his computer (for sure it was over there Christmas though) and since no package says "24 March" which was when I rebooted his computer and got this blue screen problem - I am not actually sure which package could have done this. I have boxed those which were this year.

From this thread Viperiii says he had to uninstall:
KB4056887~.........10.0.1.0
KB4058702......16299.188.1.0
package_for_rollupfix....16.299.192.1.9 I do indeed have all 3 of these packages but I see that they are "superseded"... which to me would mean that they are no longer in effect. Although I'm not sure.







QUESTIONS:
1. Must I uninstall each package one by one and then restart to see if it fixes things, starting with the newest package? (so in order of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 as shown in the package screenshot above)?
2. Is there anything else I should try rather?


Awaiting a helpful reply with a frowny sad frown =(
Michelle

 

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE after Windows Update


My Windows 10 Pro PC received the latest round of updates, and when it restarted, it bluescreens with the error INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

I did a system restore to a previous restore point, and everything booted and ran perfectly, but of course it then goes out to get the latest updates, and the same thing happens with it bluescreening and throwing the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error.

I followed many suggestions from a Google Search including disconnecting all drives other than the boot drive, running chkdsk /f on the boot drive, allowing Windows 10 to "auto-fix startup problems", and several other things, and it always bluescreens.

I temporarily disabled the Windows Update service so it doesn't go out and auto-grab the updates, but at some point, I will need to apply updates, and I expect future updates to result in the same bluescreen error.

Suggestions?