Windows 10: Windows 10 fails to boot after restart, booting after shutdown is fine

Hello.


I have HP EliteBook 8470p laptop. I recently replaced SSD in the laptop with larger one - 1TB Samsung QVO 860

Laptop has 3rd gen Core i5 2.80GHz CPU, 16GB of RAM and AMD 7550 videocard.
Before reinstall, BIOS in laptop was updated to latest version. There were no partitions created on SSD prior to installation and Windows was allowed to partition SSD as it sees fit. So recovery partition - 500MB, EFI partition - 100MB, and the rest of SSD - 931GB for Windows partition on C: drive

Clean install was performed with UEFI boot enabled in laptop's BIOS.

Installation of Windows 10 Pro was launched from bootable USB created with Windows Media creation tool 1909.

During installation i took note that Windows 10 version on the media was dated 9-Jan-2020 which can be seen during "pick your windows version" screen

After installation latop downloaded several Windows updates - January 2020 cummulative update, April 2020 cummulative update and few others, i will try to check and post full list later.
I also installed drivers from HP support page for my laptop like Intel RST driver version 12.x, Intel chipset driver, drivers for Alcor smart card reader and JMicron SD card and FireWire drivers. Plus HP hotkey driver and wireless button driver.

Windows itself installed HP accelerometer driver version 5.2 in disabled state with message "this driver is not compatible with Windows and can cause system instability. please contact computer vendor for updated driver". HP page has the same non-working version of driver.
I found accelerometer driver in Microsoft update catalog, version 7.3


During these installations Windows became unable to boot if restarted. Let me emphasize - if i restart Windows, end. Laptop can not boot, because it does not sees drive as bootable. Laptop does sees drive in BIOS as being physically present and connected, meaning it displays size, serial number and other details about physical drive. So it is not totally lost. Laptop just can't boot from it. MBR issue?

BUT!

If i shut down Windows and then turn laptop back on - everything goes just fine. Booting is proceeding normally.

So - reboot=fail. Shutdown+power on=ok


I have a feeling that either some of Windows KB updates did this or i missed something during installation. SSD is fine, i ran checks on it.

One thing i noticed that both "special" partitions - System Recovery and EFI are 100% free.

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Windows 10 random automatic repair after changing boot priority.

Hello. So i have an Windows 10 Pro. Sometimes when i am changing in bios boot order from USB to HDD ( SDD ) windows starts booting with AUTOMATIC REPAIR and then restarting. Is this something with BIOS \ Windows 10 bug related? Tested on pc and on laptop , and sometimes it doing the same.


Situation on PC first,listen:

Few days ago after i change boot in UEFI BIOS from USB to SSD.
Then Windows 10 showed at 1 boot Automatic Repair.
When starting Windows 10 boot loader starts by "preparing automatic repair" and diagnosing pc.
Interesting is that if I restart Windows (after procedure mentioned earlier) it will boot normally. This startup problem was occured only when starting system again after shutdown or restarted pc from windows.So i was needed 2 boots to boot properly to windows.
But on pc, format was needed to remove completely issue and after format is fine.

Pc :
2x8gb Kingston Hyperx 1600mhz DDR3
SSD samsung Evo 250 gb
4790k stock
Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 with UEFI BIOS


Now laptop with old standard bios:
On laptop i made the same operation, change boot from USB to HDD and on first boot Windows 10 shows Automatic Repair. But it happened once and i cant reproduce. No format was needed.

laptop is very old with 2gb ram

Why on pc format was needed when on laptop not?



Thanks for suggestions.

 

Windows 10 "shutdown" causes next boot to fail

Windows 10 "shutdown" causes next boot to fail. After performing a normal shutdown, the next time I try to power up and boot the computer, the process fails with the black screen and blue windows showing. This is true whether booting up in normal mode, or
safe mode. Cycling power, or just pressing the reset button will cause the next boot to succeed. Again whether booting in normal or safe modes. When shutting down from safe mode, the next boot always works (even in normal mode). A "restart" always works.
The "shutdown" process appears to be leaving something on the hard drive that causes a cold boot to fail, but the process of trying to cold boot corrects the problem for the next time.

Has anyone had this experience, and do you know how to fix it?

 

windows 10 slow boot

I was having a slow boot issue on my Windows 7 install a little while back. It would take about 30 - 40 extra seconds to boot up for whatever reason.

I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

10 Tips for SSD Optimization in Windows 7 - Part 1

Looks to be similar to this: SSD Optimization for your Windows Gaming PC and Tips and Tricks


In the end, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 entirely to fix the booting issue. It was taking around 35 seconds to boot, and after the fresh install it takes about 7 seconds to boot.