noobsquared

Here is situation I'm in trying to get this darn computer to boot into Windows. Each time I start up this 2013 ASUS VivoBook now I get a "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" message. Everything was fine up until a few days ago. The BIOS only has an option for boot priority as Windows Boot Manager followed by string of numbers. I had been finding guides and tutorials and some tell me that the issue is a partition issue or EUFI issue? When I go to see a roster of disks and volumes, cmd prompt on my Windows 8 install image can see it, but I somehow can't fix it or is "hidden". The refresh option on the installation tools starts but eventually says there was a problem. Restore starts, and can view the last time my system was online but said I had to repair the disk. I repair the disk and it completes the progress bar, but I try to proceed with restore and a dialog pops up saying there still needs to repair the disk. I can't continue. Tried repairing through cmd prompt and got to stage 4 of chkdsk when it I guess froze. There appeared to be a huge number however, so I could just wait overnight... The chkdsk process did however say there were a small number of bad sectors. There are semi-important files I'd like to get off incase my HDD is failing. How could I try to get into Windows again to safely get the files off?

So this is in concerns to a family member that lives in an small apartment room, approximately less than two miles away from my residence. He is just getting by on money (not so much) and does not have that luxury to purchase a quick access gateway via a provider to just do a few small tasks like communicating with email, file applications online, download pictures, and occasionally listen to YouTube music. No internet provider has something that would fit this need in a minimal costing package. Occasionally in order to do as such he has to make constant trips back and forth to the local library. He wants to alleviate this quickly... ...He has two computers (both a desktop and a notebook of which I gave to him in spite of the situation he is in). The notebook has a WiFi card built-in as standard. However, the desktop computer I offered him he wants to migrate to ASAP as he just simply doesn't this now failing laptop with its trackpads and wants more power with a bigger screen and all that as he is used to the traditional beefy computer experience and such. Something that would be stationary on his desk that isn't fragile. He will then use the notebook in worst case scenarios. The computer that I will be giving him is a 9 year old Dell OptiPlex GX620 SFF that surprisingly upon discovery could be upgraded exponentially and all. There appears to be a spare slot lane on the motherboard that might fit a 16-pin card... How could I fix this dilemma so that he needs not to waste fuel and time just to get past this digital age we now live and communicate in by just getting him online somehow? Should I invest in a internal WiFi card that would plug in the motherboard?** Should I insist on going a more probable route with those USB dongles with WiFi antennas? Could I somehow employ a high-gain antenna system that could reach, discover, and connect to networks (including mine at the aforementioned residence a mile or so away)? How would this even work given that there are so many obstructions in between both places? Other ideas to help? **He is skeptical of using open networks around him (there are a few) given that the owner(s) of the network's background is/are unknown to us and rather call it safe and he would rather trust my network..but I insist that he should follow this route in an in case scenario that he can't get access to my network.

Well, looks like problem has been solved lonesome barehanded... Only thing I was able to do was reinstall Windows 10 via USB with the result of data loss in regards to games and misc files...nothing as important of what documents that get backed up regularly I suppose.

So I come home from them gym excersising and wake up my custom built PC as routine. It was taking rather longer than usual to come back from sleep and required me to tap on my keyboard again when it finally awakened. My monitor then presented me an BSOD error with what I recall seeing along the lines of "video_memory_management_internal" error and that it had gathered information and would restart. It did exactly as that and when Windows rebooted it went into "Automatic Repair" mode. It then presented me the first step: "Choose Keyboard Layout" with a list of different modes. That's fine and all, but I cannot continue and select beyond that screen. Both of my keyboards and mice fail to be recognized and I cannot insert input whatsoever. I restarted numerous times and still cannot escape this repair mode. I don't see why Windows cannot boot into desktop as normal. Prior to this dilemma I did not have any graphically intensive apps opened, just a photo editor and Chrome. I cannot seem to enter Safe mode as during POST with either keyboards. I am only able to enter my motherboards BIOS screen or able to select my boot device with a menu. My motherboard is an ASUS M5A78L-M LX Plus. My GPU is a EVGA GTX 760 Superclocked and OS is Windows 10. I can provide other specs if you need them to help guide me to troubleshoot. So until help arises I am stuck in an loop.