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Computer down. Help?/
December 15, 2022, 07:53 AM
chellim1Computer down. Help?/
Worked normally yesterday.
Blue screen of death today.
I can’t even do a reset because it asks for a recovery key which I don’t know…
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor December 15, 2022, 08:08 AM
0-0Press F8 at boot time and try to get the startup options. First try Last known good configuration.
If this doesn’t work, next try Safe Boot.
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December 15, 2022, 10:05 AM
smschulzWhat OS?
Maybe a screenshot?
December 15, 2022, 10:16 AM
chellim1Windows 10
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor December 15, 2022, 10:20 AM
BurtonRWDesktop or laptop? If the latter, any chance it could have been bumped hard, dropped, kicked, run over, etc.? A loose component (HD, RAM, etc.) might cause the BSoD.
If a tower, have you upgraded or updated anything lately?
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A=A December 15, 2022, 10:39 AM
chellim1Laptop. It wasn’t dropped or kicked. It’s on my desk in the same spot it was when I turned it off last night.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor December 15, 2022, 10:40 AM
smschulzNo simple answer that can be easily answered on a gun forum but here are some places to start:
https://www.windowscentral.com...-problems-windows-10https://www.diskpart.com/windo...windows-10-1234.htmlhttps://www.pcguide.com/window...-to/fix-not-booting/Short answer is to find out if the error is hardware or software.
Previous iterations of Windows was a bit more straight-forward with hitting F8 after POST and and before BOOT.
Now it is more convoluted and best to be prepared before hand with backups or recovery media - (I know that doesn't help now
)
Sorry.
December 15, 2022, 11:34 AM
architectNot a Windows guy, as many of you should be aware by now, but isn't there a way to boot from external media, e.g. a USB drive so as to recover a corrupted file system? The external boot doesn't necessarily have to be a Windows OS, the low-level disk utilities shipped with most Linux distros will repair NTFS and FAT FS's just fine. If nothing else, it may be a useful tactic to backup the C: drive.
Also, if you boot Linux, the boot probes provide far more useful diagnostic messages if there is a hardware fault the POST doesn't find.
December 15, 2022, 01:27 PM
chellim1Resetting this PC…
This cannot be undone.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor December 15, 2022, 01:35 PM
HRKBuy a new SSD drive that will fit the laptop, remove the old drive and put in a USB Drive Enclosure.
Load the new drive with a fresh copy of windows and any applications you run.
Connect the USB drive and Windows will see it as a secondary hard drive, if that drive still functions.
Or, remove the drive and stick it in a usb enclosure, you can get them at any computer store, best buy, amazon, and connect it to your desktop to see if that computer can see the drive,
If so you can get your data off and then format the drive over, add applications and then copy the data back...
December 15, 2022, 01:37 PM
nhracecraftIf you've got personal data on the HDD (or SSD) in that machine, you might want to pull the Hard Drive and connect it to another PC via USB (there are various methods) to recover your files/copy them to another storage device. Assuming the HDD/File System is OK and you're Windows OS is corrupted, you need not lose your data.
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December 15, 2022, 01:38 PM
smschulzquote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
Resetting this PC…
This cannot be undone.
You don't want to do this unless you have backed up your data or do not care about it.
Best to get the data off then reset or reinstall.
Basically what
HRK said except:
quote:
If so you can get your data off and then format the drive over, add applications and then copy the data back...
>> you can't first format the disk THEN get your data back.
>> copy the data over then do what you wish with the disk - delete, format, nothing.
>> even if it is not bootable the data may still be just fine - just run some diagnostics.
December 15, 2022, 02:54 PM
chellim1Back up and running...
Re-installed Windows.
It's like having a new computer. It'll take some time to get everything set up again. I lost all apps/programs that weren't original to Windows 10. I just reinstalled Firefox, which I've used over Microsoft Edge.... but I may want to give Microsoft Edge another go.
But I still have my data.
Thank you to all of you who have given advice/help today.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor