Windows unable to boot :(

[Waleed97]

Hello LTT community, I hope you're doing well. 

 

Yesterday I started my PC, and immediately it transfers me to Gigabyte bios menu. Restarted and I clicked on f12 to choose the boot drive, after choosing my SSD and booting it showed me a blinking cursor. I tried everything CSM enable\disable, legacy etc..., finally I found a video 

 

 

To solve the annoying blinking cursor simply by downloading Windows 10 ISO on USB using media tool, booting on the USB and run the disk part commands. 

After writing list volume command it shows me the USB only and there is no sign or mention on my SSD even though it listed in bios. After this I disconnected my SSD and connect it again, now whenever the PC is booting on the USB it shows :

 

 windows failed to start a recent hardware or software change

 

file: boot\bcd. 

 

Do you have any solution other than buying new hard rive to install windows on it? thank you

 

[Flannelist]

Assuming you've had this build for a bit, but this sounds like one of two things.

Either your boot sector is screwed. Or your SSD died. If the drive isn't even showing in BIOS, I am leaning more towards the latter. 

EDIT: NM I misread. Shows in BIOS but not diskpart. Your boot sector is probably damaged. After disconnect and reconnect does it show in diskpart?

[Waleed97]

14 minutes ago, Flannelist said:

Assuming you've had this build for a bit, but this sounds like one of two things.

Either your boot sector is screwed. Or your SSD died. If the drive isn't even showing in BIOS, I am leaning more towards the latter. 

EDIT: NM I misread. Shows in BIOS but not diskpart. Your boot sector is probably damaged. After disconnect and reconnect does it show in diskpart?

Thank you for the response. 

I think you misunderstood. The message " Windows unable... " happened AFTER dis/reconnect my ssd. And it's only shown when i boot on the USB ISO hub, because i can not boot on my ssd "blinking cursor".

Now i think maybe the ISO is corrupted even though it runs smoothly on the first attempt , i'm gonna download it again. 

[Flannelist]

4 minutes ago, Waleed97 said:

Thank you for the response. 

I think you misunderstood. The message " Windows unable... " happened AFTER dis/reconnect my ssd. And it's only shown when i boot on the USB ISO hub, because i can not boot on my ssd "blinking cursor".

Now i think maybe the ISO is corrupted even though it runs smoothly on the first attempt , i'm gonna download it again. 

Possible. I didn't watch the video since I'm at work (and my work computer does no have speakers hooked up). I just looked through it to get the gist though and it seems like this is the same fix I was suggesting regarding boot sector. If you are getting  a blinking cursor when you try to select your SSD as the boot device it means that your computer is looking for an OS to boot to and is not finding one. This is pretty typical of a malfunctioning boot sector. Especially if it's making mention of BCD (boot configuration data). The computer lacks the proper information to boot into your drive.

I would try to remake the ISO as you suggested, just in case. If it is still not seeing your drive in diskpart, I am not aware of any other tools you can try to use to repair the boot information other than reinstall windows from scratch. Though if diskpart isn't seeing it, it's also still possible the disk is failing, even if BIOS sees it.

[Waleed97]

Update : 

After re downloading Windows Iso, i ran Diskpart command and it's not listed. I want it to be listed so i can run commands on it to update corrupted boot files using Windows ISO "repair your computer" by command prompt. I clicked on start-up repair but it fails

These photos from my bios. 

[Waleed97]

5 minutes ago, Flannelist said:

Possible. I didn't watch the video since I'm at work (and my work computer does no have speakers hooked up). I just looked through it to get the gist though and it seems like this is the same fix I was suggesting regarding boot sector. If you are getting  a blinking cursor when you try to select your SSD as the boot device it means that your computer is looking for an OS to boot to and is not finding one. This is pretty typical of a malfunctioning boot sector. Especially if it's making mention of BCD (boot configuration data). The computer lacks the proper information to boot into your drive.

I would try to remake the ISO as you suggested, just in case. If it is still not seeing your drive in diskpart, I am not aware of any other tools you can try to use to repair the boot information other than reinstall windows from scratch. Though if diskpart isn't seeing it, it's also still possible the disk is failing, even if BIOS sees it.

Yes i totally agree with you . Thank you i'm gonna buy new ssd to install windows on it and try to retrieve my files. Have a good day.