Windows 10: Issues on boot up

Hi,

I have a old Lenovo SL500 that I use as a cheap media box. I've got Windows 10 installed on it and it has been running great up until this morning. When I came down it was not responding to RDP requests and it was not listed on Teamviewer. Looking at the machine all there was was a black screen so no aid on whats wrong. I rebooted and all I get after POST is the flashing underscore.

Since that I have tried:

* tried f8 to get in to safe mode, no joy

* Booting into Linux from a pen drive (can see the hard drive but its locked and cannot access it)


* Booting in to the windows recovery console and tried a repair (failed)

* Tried a system restore point (failed)

* Tried CHKDSK /f/R (seems to finish fine with 0 bad sectors but I get the error message "failed to transfer logged messages status 50" - I think thats "normal" when running it from install media)

* Tried fixing and restore post CHKDSK same issues

* SFC /SCANNOW

* BOOTREC /SCANOS (says 0 windows installs found!)

So I am running out of ideas. It seems the Hard drive is fine as CHKDSK is fine but either the boot sector or the OS thats buggered. Before I hose it, is there something I have missed that I can try that is non-destructive that does not involve me re-installing all my programs?

Its not got too much on it from memory the programs I'd installed were:

* Bitdefender
* Firefox
* Aceviewer media player
* Sop player
* VLC
* Flash (yeah I know)



Thanks in advance!

:)

 

Boot up issue

Hello,

To help resolve your concern, kindly follow the troubleshooting steps created by
Ramesh Kumar on this
post.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards.

 

Boot up issue

Upon booting up the desktop computer, the blue Windows 10 icon appears, but does nothing. In order to actually boot up, I have to do a soft boot. How can I fix this so it just boots up correctly?

 

Try to boot into recovery console then type: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
Then try F8 again to see if it works

EDIT: BTW, was your Windows installed using UEFI ? or MBR ?

 

I am not sure how I know. I just installed it as pretty much default on this one from a clean hard drive. Does 10 not use the same tools?

 

From the Command Console. Type: diskpart then type list disk as shown below:



If there's an asterisk under GPT column of your Windows OS disk then your Windows was installed using UEFI else MBR.

 

It can see 2 partitions, neither have an asterisk next to them

 

OK. So your Windows 10 is using MBR partition scheme.
Download Macrium Rescue disk: Rescue6.1.871X64.iso - Google Drive
Then use: Rufus - Create bootable USB to create a bootable USB.
Boot up from the USB. On the left Panel, click on: Fix Windows Boot Problem
Then try to reboot.

 

Cheers. It 1 am here but I will give that a try tomorrow

 

That did the trick. Thanks ever so much. I wonder what caused it

 

I have had the same issue, but when I tried to fix it in the way mentioned, it said that system32/hal.dll is missing or corrupt. and it will restart itself when a key is pressed.