I cannot start my windowsWindows machine. I get a black screen and a blinking white cursor. It is not responsive.
What happened was I was using the PC but the machine was running very slow, and then became completely unresponsive. I hard powered off the machine. When I restarted it, I got the windowsWindows loading dots going round in a circle for some time. I then hard powered off the machine again. Upon restart, I experienced the symptoms above.
I believe that perhaps windowsWindows was doing an upgrade and got interrupted.
I created a windowsWindows bootable installation usbUSB stick from here.
Install Now
Repair your computer
Troubleshoot
Turn off your PC
I click on Troubleshoot"Troubleshoot"
System Restore
Go back to previous version
System Image Recovery
Start-up repair
command prompt
I click "System restore" -– I get
To use system restore, you must specify which windowsWindows installation to restore. Restart this computer, select an operating system, and then select System restore"restore.
I click "Go back to the previous version", and I get
I click on command prompt"Command Prompt". Following advice found elsewhere on the internetInternet, I try the bootrecbootrec command:
bootrec /RebuildBcd
bootrec /RebuildBcd
Successfully scanned windowsWindows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
C:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes etc
bootrec /fixMbr
bootrec /fixMbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixboot
bootsect /nt60 ALL
bootsect /nt60 ALL
C: \?\volume{00030698-0000-0000-0000-100000000000} Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode
C: \\?\volume{00030698-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}
Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode
bcdboot C:\windows /s M:
It gives
bcdboot C:\windows /s M: It gives FailureFailure when initialising library system volume
Diskpart list volumes
Diskpart
list volumes
It shows 3 drives that I use as storage drives, the USB stick, and the C drive which is where windowsWindows is installed. I think that perhaps my windowsWindows installation is using this volume as the system partition and the boot partition. So I tried
bcdboot c:\windows /s c
bcdboot c:\windows /s c
BFSVC Error: Failed to set element application device. Status = [c00000bb]
BFSVC Error: Failed to populate BCD store. Status = [c00000bb]
BFSVC Error: Failed to set element application device. Status = [c00000bb]
BFSVC Error: Failed to populate BCD store. Status = [c00000bb]
DiskPart select volume 2 detail volume
DiskPart
select volume 2
detail volume
Partition 1
Type : 07
Hidden : No
Active : Yes
Offset in bytes : 1048576
Partition 1
Type : 07
Hidden : No
Active : Yes
Offset in bytes : 1048576
bootsect /nt60 N: /force /mbr
attrib -s -h C:\boot\bcd
ren C:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
bootsect /nt60 N: /force /mbr
attrib -s -h C:\boot\bcd
ren C:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
bootrec /scanos
I get
bootrec /scanos I get SuccessfullySuccessfully scanned windows installations
Total
Total identified Windows installations: 1
1
[1] C:\Windows
The
The operation completed successfully
bcdedit /export c:\BCD_Backup
I get
bcdedit /export c:\BCD_Backup I get TheThe store operation has failed.
The
The requested system device cannot be found
I have now run out of ideas and things to try. Does anyone have something I can try?
Many thanks in advance!
