Windows Not Booting. Seeking Help

[Al2P1]

I hope this is the right place to post . Sorry for long post.

 

So here’s my situation. A few days ago I log on to my computer. I enter my password and it brings me to the desktop as usual. I tried to move my mouse but I realize everything froze so I power off my pc. I turn it on again and it immediately brought me into the bios. I’m not too familiar with everything in the bios but everything seemed fine except I noticed that my Samsung 980 pro ssd wasn’t showing up on the boot options list. Although it stills shows up on the storage information which I guess is good. It’s been a few days now and after watching a ton of videos, I believe that it might be a problem with windows and how it boots up but who knows I’m no expert. 

I’ve tried using the windows installation tool on a flash drive to access the troubleshoot options like startup repair and system restore but both don’t seem to work. 

I’ve also tried using the command prompt and inputting the bootrec commands like scanos, fixboot, and rebuildbcd. The scanos command can’t identify any windows installation. The fixboot command just gives me the access is denied prompt. And the rebuildbcd command also can’t identify any windows installation. 

The ONLY way my bios can detect my Samsung 980 pro as a boot option is if I go into the boot section and enable CMS and switch the Boot Device Control to Legacy OPROM. But if I try to boot up this way it just brings me to the black screen with the “Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key” prompt.

One other thing I noticed is that when I enable CMS and Legacy OPROM and go into command prompt and use the bootrec /scanos it does identify 1 windows installation. It’s like with Legacy OPROM it can read my ssd and find windows but can’t use it. 

If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it. I use an ASUS Rog crosshair viii dark hero motherboard, Samsung 980 pro 2tb ssd, and Windows 10 pro. Thank you  

[SpookyCitrus]

Make a a portable version of Macrium that you can boot into with a USB, use it's boot fix tool and see if that repairs it. I've used it many times for similar things and it's worked probably 90% of the time with Windows boot corruption. If it doesn't I'd say your best bet is to just try a fresh install of Windows.

[Al2P1]

4 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Make a a portable version of Macrium that you can boot into with a USB, use it's boot fix tool and see if that repairs it. I've used it many times for similar things and it's worked probably 90% of the time with Windows boot corruption. If it doesn't I'd say your best bet is to just try a fresh install of Windows.

I’ll look into it and try it later after work. Thank you for the suggestion. 

[Al2P1]

Update: The fix windows boot feature on the Macrium boot usb didn’t work. I’m pretty sure my windows is fully dead. Now I want to fresh install windows but I believe I need to format my ssd which I believe will delete all my files, data, games, etc. I would like to keep these so can I just purchase another ssd and install windows to that new one? Also since I still have my windows from the first ssd, can I keep and use my old windows settings? And would I need to purchase windows 10 pro again or can I transfer it from the first ssd. Overall I would like to have 2 ssds, separating windows from all my other important data/games so I don’t lose anything if this ever happened again. Any thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated. 

[cretsiah]

can tell you now that having 2 drives is really great when it comes to steam ...... windows 10 keeps crashing on my 16 yr old daughters computer, she is " so so over it "crashing weekly she said i dont care how you do it but give me windows 7.

 

so now she has windows 7, windows 10 ( in mbr mode - IF windows 10 doesnt keep overriding the settings ) and Linux Mint installed. told her she can use win 7 for her games but she will have to use something else for web surfing / streaming netflix etc.

 

and NO before anyone says it, its not the system, its windows 10, because windows 7 and linux run perfectly fine without crashes for months