Need Help with BSOD Issue

[dFlashe]

Hello good people of LTT Forum, I have had trouble with a BSOD for 3+ hours and have decided to reach out for help…

 

 

The issue began with me launching my pc as normal and sitting at my desk 3-5 minutes post launch while doomscrolling. Then it was time to lock in and play some games with friends. However my taskbar was missing, completely gone. No icons or anything completely gone.. I’ve had this issue before and on my work laptop and have just had to restart. So I figured I’d do the same. As I pressed “restart” it started spinning then BOOM - the BSOD, I’ve ran into it before so I was not too worried, however after multiple restarts with the power button I was going in circles and tried diagnosing - reseating ram, gpu, & unplugging all other drives. My boot drive is a 980 pro m.2 so after diagnosing all those I got to thinking it could be the drive. So I plugged it into my fiancés pc and the boot issue persisted however I am able to access files when on file explorer on her boot drive. So now I believe it is a corrupted file. 
 

I then tried fixing it with a usb drive and running commands per google recommendations to no avail. I gave up on this for the night with no sense of direction at this point. As mentioned, I have access to another pc to resolve this issue, my BSOD code is 0xc000000e.

my last effort was removing all tmp files from tonight and removing vgkbootstatus.dak as per a online search it is a file that riot games uses for their anticheat and is unnecessary per a tweet from their support team they recommend removing it. I know their anticheat runs on kernel level and was last “modified” just a minute before my first tmp file. Rebooted my pc and the error persists. 
 

Any help is very much appreciated. 
 

Thanks!!

[esCaPade1]

Hi. Can you boot into Recovery? Do you have any System Restore points? They might be your best bet.

[dFlashe]

6 hours ago, esCaPade1 said:

Hi. Can you boot into Recovery? Do you have any System Restore points? They might be your best bet.

No restore points. I will try to boot into recovery this evening and update.

[esCaPade1]

Safe mode is worth trying - if that works, then it is likely driver related. 

[dFlashe]

Hi! Thanks for your help! I completed a fresh windows install on my 240gb SATA SSD. Same as before, all my files on the NVME SSD that won’t boot are fine. Photos, videos, in even able to launch games! (Surprising to me) 

 

My question at this point is if there is anyway I can migrate solely the OS on my sata to my nvme and have it boot as close to a return to normal? Kinda like flashing the working is over the non-operational and it being like nothing ever happened? If not what would be a suggestion. I thought about moving everything g over however my sata only has 240gb of storage and my nvme is 1tb with 600gb in use. 
 

thanks

[esCaPade1]

Hi. I am afraid there is no simple way to do that, no.

Now that you know your Windows installation was the problem, the best thing to do is probably to copy all you want to keep on the NVMe drive to another drive and reinstall Windows on the NVMe.

If you are seriously low on funds (no shame in that), you could use the SSD by booting into Linux from a USB drive and using that OS to erase the SSD and copy from the NVMe to the SSD what you want to keep. If there is not enough room, you will need another drive to store it on. You can use this for a backup later though - sounds like it might be a good idea!