Windows Reset

[TheGamingHD]

A couple of month ago (around january time) a program on my laptop decided to modify my boot and my partitions. Now I can't pull myself together to try and fix it. I am stuck on a 8 year old laptop. The problem with my laptop is that every time it boots it asks if i want to boot into 2 operating systems (doesn't look like the windows 10 boot menu)(its black) and once it has booted up everything is normal except the "my computer" which shows all my partitions, My c drive, a drive called "Boot", a drive called "system reserved" and a couple of others.

 

Would system restore fix this or would I have to reset windows if that does it.

 

OS: windows 10 (from january time)

[Mello]

Did you try to shower your laptop?

[TheGamingHD]

1 minute ago, Mello said:

Did you try to shower your laptop?

shower? you mean like taking it in the the bathroom and showering it?? that would break it.

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

The laptop should have a partition called something like system restore, this is used to restore your machine back to the factory state. If that special partition creation was when your laptop was running an earlier version of Windows, then that is what it will restore back to, meaning you may need to reinstall Windows 10 again yes, sorry.

[Guest]

Do you have a manufacturer specific recovery partition (usually hidden) ?

Do you have Windows 10 Installation Media ?

 

If you don't have any of the above, download EasyBCD and restore the bootloader from there.

As for the boot drives showing in Windows Explorer, go to Disk Management and remove the letter assignment for that partition.

[TheGamingHD]

9 minutes ago, Gilly15 said:

Do you have a manufacturer specific recovery partition (usually hidden) ?

Do you have Windows 10 Installation Media ?

 

If you don't have any of the above, download EasyBCD and restore the bootloader from there.

As for the boot drives showing in Windows Explorer, go to Disk Management and remove the letter assignment for that partition.

I don't think i have a recovery partition nor windows 10 install media. would system restore fix these?

 

Edit: I was looking at easyBCD before but i can't pull myself together to even get the laptop out the bag.

wouldn't removing the letters from the drive make it unbootable?

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

On 06/11/2016 at 11:57 PM, TheGamingHD said:

I don't think i have a recovery partition nor windows 10 install media. would system restore fix these?

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From what problems I have had in the past with a crumbling operating system (OS) which was Windows XP, the "system restore" function would only work with a legitimate copy of the installation media. If you have a registered version of the OS you should be able to download it directly from the Microsoft servers, after entering your licence key.

 

Sorry to take so long to get back to you but my appreciation of your problem is not from the perspective of a data recovery specialist.

Hope this helps