Windows 10: Inaccessible Boot Device - tried to lots of things :(

Hi Guys

I have a Samsung N130 netbook, its a few years old and was originally supplied with Win7. I upgraded it to Win10 last year. It's been running fine and fully updated as necessary. The only modification I have made is to increase the RAM from 1 to 2 GB.

A couple of days ago I was downloading and installing the latest version of iTunes, which then called for a restart. This is when I was greated with the BSOD and the stop code "inaccessible Boot Device".

I can get to the receovery area either by waiting until automatic repairs have failed or by booting from a USB media creation download, which I made yesterday.
At c prompt I can change the drive to D: and see all my files and so I'm hoping that this means the data is safe.

This is what I have tried so far:
1) Restore point (doh! it wasn't turned on)
2) Auto repair
3) Re-booting in all the different safe mode options, one by one
4) Running Scannow, SFC - finds no errors or fixes. Had to force unmount.

Not sure what else to try. I have data I'd like to recover such as itunes library, photos and word/excel documents. Fortunately the emails are IMAP.

I did see an approach on another forum which implied installing Linux as a way of getting to my files.

Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks for reading my post.

Max

I have tried the following so far.

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windows 10 boot problem

I tried doing a clean reinstall of windows and I keep getting a blue screen saying inaccessible boot device. I tried booting with an ISO on a USB and it says the same thing. Can anybody help?

 

HELP inaccessible boot device, have tried everything

Great, this has helped!! I'm in the process of reinstalling my apps now and my files have been saved. Thanks ever so much!

 

Hi maxfox44,

I assume safe mode results in the same problem?

Have you run chkdsk /r on your partitions?

 

Thanks for you reply, yes I tried all different combinations of the safe mode options and also run both SFC and Chksdk. It didn't find any problems.

 

To continue I would need more information about your partitions
Run following command and post back a photo/screenshot of the result
Code: diskpart list disk sel disk # list partition[/quote] change # to the number of the partition, run the last 2 commands on all disks if you have multiple disks


An example
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