Can't boot to Windows issue

noobsquared · January 21, 2018

Here is situation I'm in trying to get this darn computer to boot into Windows.

Each time I start up this 2013 ASUS VivoBook now I get a "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" message.

Everything was fine up until a few days ago.

The BIOS only has an option for boot priority as Windows Boot Manager followed by string of numbers.

I had been finding guides and tutorials and some tell me that the issue is a partition issue or EUFI issue?

When I go to see a roster of disks and volumes, cmd prompt on my Windows 8 install image can see it, but I somehow can't fix it or is "hidden".

The refresh option on the installation tools starts but eventually says there was a problem.

Restore starts, and can view the last time my system was online but said I had to repair the disk.

I repair the disk and it completes the progress bar, but I try to proceed with restore and a dialog pops up saying there still needs to repair the disk. I can't continue.

Tried repairing through cmd prompt and got to stage 4 of chkdsk when it I guess froze. There appeared to be a huge number however, so I could just wait overnight...

The chkdsk process did however say there were a small number of bad sectors.

There are semi-important files I'd like to get off incase my HDD is failing.

How could I try to get into Windows again to safely get the files off?

kb5zue · January 21, 2018

I would try removing the drive and putting in to another machine as a slave. Once you do that, you can remove/copy the files you want to save off of it. The HDDGuru may have some tools that you can use to try and resurrect the drive.

http://hddguru.com/software/

Once you have been able to get your files and do some tech stuff to the drive to get it working right stick it back in the original machine and reinstall your OS.