Windows 10: Win10 crash -- now can't restore, recover, or reinstall

Discus and support Win10 crash -- now can't restore, recover, or reinstall in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I have been up all night trying to restore my son's gaming PC. He had modded the game Far Cry 2 from a third-party site, and the crash happened maybe a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by nhsteno, Apr 3, 2020.

  1. nhsteno Win User

    Win10 crash -- now can't restore, recover, or reinstall


    I have been up all night trying to restore my son's gaming PC. He had modded the game Far Cry 2 from a third-party site, and the crash happened maybe a half day to a day later. Not sure if this is related but figured it is good background.

    We do not have an image backup of the PC. Sure wish I had thought to do that beforehand.

    Using a USB repair USB stick I had created, I tried repairing the drive. I also tried restoring the drive. I tried scandisk from a command prompt. No errors found.

    I tried Ubuntu on USB to try to back up some of his files. It was not readable. I tried Rescuezilla on USB. No dice.

    I concluded I would need to reinstall Windows. I found a hack online that said to type in Notepad.exe from a command prompt, which would get you into Explorer so that you could send files to an external drive. He and I pulled off what we could.

    Then I tried to reinstall Windows from the recovery USB stick. I clicked the Remove My Files button and it got to 1% and then quit.

    Clean install time. So I tried to reinstall Windows with a USB stick made from Media Creation Tool 1903. I chose partition 3 from the SSD, which is where the first W10 installation was. This actually looked like it worked. Then the system rebooted right back to the install window like nothing ever happened. I tried it again ... same result. I tried it again and removed the USB stick. The computer booted into BIOS and continued to do that multiple times even as I inserted the install USB, which was no longer recognized.

    So I went back to the recovery stick and tried again to do a restore. Nope.

    I am out of options and am about ready to fling this $2,000+ item out my front door at this point. I am also severely lacking in sleep and good humor, so I'm going to go take a nap and check back here later.

    Thanks for any possible advice you can provide. And maybe calling Corsair would be a good idea, too ... if they are even open. I consider them essential, even if the government doesn't!!

    Deanna

    :)
     
    nhsteno, Apr 3, 2020
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  2. *RESOLUTION FOUND*Malwarebytes crashing on Win10 insider Bld. Rootkit related errors?

    Ill try tomorrow am.
    Aside from OS reinstall, your suggestion is one of the only steps I haven't taken yet.

    Im gonna get some sleep and come at this with a fresh head tomorrow

    Thanks everyone
     
    jboydgolfer, Apr 3, 2020
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  3. peach1971 Win User
    all games crash!

    I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
    Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
    What happens?
    If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

    P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
    Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
    What X1800XT model do you own exactly?
     
    peach1971, Apr 3, 2020
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  4. Win10 crash -- now can't restore, recover, or reinstall

    Possible to recover raid

    ok so it said i need 3000tb of storage to recover.

    trying w1zzards suggestion.

    the raid was never disabled, it was still intact but when i reinstalled xp it showed up as a fat12 file system.
     
    freaksavior, Apr 3, 2020
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