A Fate Worse Than Abort, Retry, Ignore

[MythicRare]

Welp, I think I inadvertently gave my pc a fatality while doing some cable management and routine air dusting to my recently modded system. I made sure to keep myself grounded, hardware was plugged into appropriate places, and I essentially minded my "p's and q's".  But when I was done, my system wouldn't post until I took out the graphics card, and when it did post I couldn't boot into Windows 10. I got the bsod saying that I had to insert installation or recovery media and shut down my system. When I  was on the bsod I kept getting error codes 0xc00000221 and 0xc0000421. I even tried repairing my original hard drive, using system restore, and other recovery tools but no luck. 

 

So I have Windows 10 Home edition installed on a new hard drive right now but I can't even get to the desktop because there was a defaultuser0 account that was automatically created. I'm trying to use the command prompt to create a user account for myself just to get in but nothing has worked so far. Earlier today I reached a level of desperation so critical that I called Microsoft Tech Support only to get a person in a foreign country. Ofc they gave me bs instructions like turn your computer on and off again and try to get to advanced boot options. (well I'm sure Microsoft has competent employees but I'm just cursed) So while I'm googling anything and everything that might potentially be phoenix down for my system I have some questions:

 

1. Windows 10 didn't set up a new account for me and I'm stuck with the login page for the account defaultuser0. How can I get past that page and make a new account?
2. I previously repaired some bad sectors on the hard drive that has failed. Will I be able to recover anything from that hard drive or should I just put it out of it's misery?
3. If I can somehow get to the Windows 10 desktop, how does one reactivate their license when all traces of it are gone?
4. What I've figured out so far is that the boot manager and kernel are fcked up. Should I just do a level 3 limit break on my system and upgrade to Ryzen 7, new motherboard, and new ram?

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I'll include my specs just in case O.< : 

Hardware: 

ASUS fm2a55 motherboard 

AMD A10-6700 apu

4GB Radeon RX 460 from XFX 

16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 Ram (2 x 8GB)

Blu-ray player

Corsair CX750M psu (750 watt) 

6 case fans (3 are 140mm  with blue led and the other 3 are 120mm with no led)

Thermaltake commander fan controller

Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo cpu cooler

Toshiba 1TB hard drive 7200 rpm (which I will likely bash with a baseball bat when this is all over)

Rosewill Blackhawk Gaming atx mid tower case

 

Software (from last known good configuration): 

Windows 10 Home

Adobe Creative Cloud

Photoshop

Illustrator

Dreamweaver

InDesign

Paint Tool Sai

MS Edge

Google Chrome

OBS

WTFast

Razer Cortex

Razer Synapse

Final Fantasy XIV

MS Office 365 2016 edition

iTunes

Steam

TF2

Gary's Mod

BlazBlue

LOL

Drivers for my Wacom Intuos4 (my tablet is old but gold) 

 

 

[RS2007GOD]

Wait so if I didn't read wrong you installed a fresh copy of windows on a different t drive and it didn't work still? 

 

Things I'd try would be

 

 try install windows again with no other hdd in the system using a different sata port

Remove all but 1 stick of ram and repeat the process.

Clear cmos.

Try a different psu.

Try without gpu in it.

Throw it at the wall.

 

[MythicRare]

Hm... I'll try that after I get off of work tomorrow. Even though the hardware is still good I want to throw my system at the wall, it's been like this for a week. 

[A Silver]

Unplug your boot drive and install windows to a new drive and see if that works. Also try what @RS2007GOD said

[MythicRare]

On 4/24/2017 at 10:18 PM, RS2007GOD said:

Wait so if I didn't read wrong you installed a fresh copy of windows on a different t drive and it didn't work still? 

 

Things I'd try would be

 

 try install windows again with no other hdd in the system using a different sata port

Remove all but 1 stick of ram and repeat the process.

Clear cmos.

Try a different psu.

Try without gpu in it.

Throw it at the wall.

 

So I plugged in a PNY 480GB SSD fresh from out the box on a different data connector, and I loaded the Windows 10 boot media onto another new usb. I kept both sticks of ram in there but didn't install my discreet gpu and tada! It probably worked out better this way since the os is installed on the ssd. Now I can just reinstall the not-as-important stuff on the new SATA hard drive and all that. 

 

Some of my questions still remain: can I pull anything from my hard drive that decided to take a dump?

[RS2007GOD]

4 hours ago, MythicRare said:

So I plugged in a PNY 480GB SSD fresh from out the box on a different data connector, and I loaded the Windows 10 boot media onto another new usb. I kept both sticks of ram in there but didn't install my discreet gpu and tada! It probably worked out better this way since the os is installed on the ssd. Now I can just reinstall the not-as-important stuff on the new SATA hard drive and all that. 

 

Some of my questions still remain: can I pull anything from my hard drive that decided to take a dump?

Nice one! Yes you should be able to acess the drive from within windows. Just make sure your ssd is set as your boot drive in the bios after you plug in the drive then in windows file explorer go to D drive. It will have your old corrupt OS and all your old programs and files. If during your problems you wiped or formated the drive by mistake, or the drive is broke you will have to try use some recovery software to get what's left of the data off the drive.

[MSWindowsinside]

Honestly, what it really seems like what happened was that you accidentaly cleared the CMOS and the BIOS switched to IDE or RAID mode instead of AHCI. That explains the BsoD on first boot. That or it switched to Legacy boot mode instead of UEFI.

 

Also, if you had Windows 10 Home activated on that PC before then it should automatically activate. If not you can call Microsoft and use their automated activation system on the phone.