Windows Boot and Corruption Issues (read post)

[TheLawyerMan]

*sorry for the long (and disorganized) post, but it was necessary; therefore, no TLDR*

 

Hello,

I've been spending the last two days on this, and, let me tell you, they were some of the most infuriating and least productive days in my life.

It all started when updating ASUS Aura or Armoury Crate (I don't remember). I was running 20H2--terribly unstable, do not recommend. This update required a restart, so I did that. First thing I saw during boot was "Fixing (C:) Stage ___: __% (_______ of _______) Total: __%; ETA: _:__:__," then it got stuck on "Scanning and repairing Drive (C:): 100% complete" for way to long, so regretfully, I forced power down. Then, on next boot, I got "Diagnosing your PC," then BS_notOD: "Automatic Repair / Windows couldn't load correctly." Here, I got quite annoyed, and went and bought a new drive. A few hours later, I loaded up the original drive, and it worked fine, but now, "We can't sign into your account." For this, none of the steps here worked, and for the last one, I don't have enough drive space. Back to the new drive, everything was working fine with a clean install (of 20H2 because that's all I could get from Microsoft's website) and I went about installing all my programs and restoring my documents, pictures, music, videos, desktop, and downloads folders (this time, I installed all the before mentioned on another, separate drive. Then I restarted. This lead to the worst BSOD I have ever encountered: "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED." Computer launched itself into diagnosing and drive recovery, then promptly spit out: "Automatic Repair / Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC." I couldn't even boot into safe mode. Then: "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED" again. I also went into the command prompt and ran chkdsk "C: /f /r /x," but to no avail; drive still no work.

So, I'm at a standstill, what the heck do I do?

[C2dan88]

Sounds like one of the drivers for your hardware is not compatible with 20H2 and is causing the BSOD/Corruption. I would say install the previous Windows version (2004 or 1909)

 

To download older version of win10 I'd use rufus. To do this run it as administrator, click the down arrow next to the select iso button and choose download. Click the download button again. Rufus lists all the version of win10 released to date. All downloads from rufus are the offical isos from microsofts website.

 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Troubleshooting

[TheLawyerMan]

5 hours ago, C2dan88 said:

Sounds like one of the drivers for your hardware is not compatible with 20H2 and is causing the BSOD/Corruption. I would say install the previous Windows version (2004 or 1909)

 

To download older version of win10 I'd use rufus. To do this run it as administrator, click the down arrow next to the select iso button and choose download. Click the download button again. Rufus lists all the version of win10 released to date. All downloads from rufus are the offical isos from microsofts website.

 

I'll give this a shot later, thanks. 

[TheLawyerMan]

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