Windows 7 Home Premium was scheduled to automatically update in the middle of the night but i was awoken to my computer unable to find a solution as to why windows was unable to boot. Tried to restart and then bluescreen. Cannot boot windows. Not even safe mode. When i use the same disk i used to install windows onto my computer and try to repair windows, it claims that the disk does not have the same version of windows that i have and because of this it cannot repair windows. Also when i try to upgrade windows using the disk, after a few steps it asks me to restart and once again, BSOD. Ive tried some other things and nothing works. Please help, i dont want to lose anything!
Is there in error code at the bottom of the blue screen 0x000000xx
It may have done a win10 update in the middle of the night unless you've disabled that, if your original disc was SP0 and you've now got SP1 you might need an SP1 disc??
0x000000F4
This is the error code i receive. i cant answer your other question im unsure
Do you have RAID enabled? could it be windows setup won't see the install without having the drivers specified?
additionally:
Check your memory http://www.memtest.org/ if it passes a few hours or overnight in memtest then that shouldn't be your problem.
Check your Hard drives http://www.hdat2.com/ SMART attribute data you may want to do a full surface scan of the discs.
Could be infections causing issues once certain updates installed, not that infections are a problem before an update makes them cause a blue screen. It does sound like it's done some updates and now has issues.
Is it possible to do this? Windows does not boot at all. I will get the Windows logo and it will say starting Windows then it will crash and I'll get BSOD
Welcome to windows, you gave us your money, fuck you.
I meant specify drivers when you boot to your windows CD and it say's it can't find a windows install, if you've got RAID enabled I'm sure that's where you can load additional drivers.
do you have another working PC that you can use to burn Boot CD's or make boot USB drives with?
The rate this is going I would hope you have backups, otherwise we can get into the nitty gritty.
Since the windows 7 bootable stick (iso on usb) is not working, try the windows 10 bootable stick (that @thorium233 mentioned) and try to repair from there. If your still having problems, try detaching other hardware you don't need and try to repair again, sometimes this makes the process a lot easier. We can repair system files via the bootable sticks, here's two tutorials for both windows 7 and 10:
- Windows 7 = http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/139810-sfc-scannow-run-command-prompt-boot.html
- Windows 10 = http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2895-sfc-command-run-windows-10-a.html
Does windows see your disks? If not you might want to erase them from a ((this will deleted all your data, you've been warned!)too make things easy for you) GParted bootable stick (iso on usb) and clean it that way, delete all the partitions on that disk and start over.
Interrupting windows updates (especially when it's upgrading to a new distro) will most likely corrupt your install, I hope you get everything working again and good luck.
Okay i am at home now and am ready to work on this. i do have a laptop that will burn discs. Going to first try to repair windows with windows 10 on a disc
I used the tutorial you suggested. After a scan is said there is a windows repair pending which requires reboot to complete. restart windows and run sfc again. Where do i go from here?'
Managed to get windows to diagnose that it is a device causing the problem. the only thing i recently installed was the DVD drive that i am using to repair windows...
did it boot after that or still no boot? the fact is recognised your windows install is promising, if you need to backup your data as shu_kaze suggested, a ubuntu disc or a variety of others are bootable live CD's the hirens boot cd has a bootable XP and linux OS on it too, use whatever bootable OS you're most comfortable with to make a copy of your important data to an external hard drive.
Does it say anything about which device is causing the issue, it's not necessarily the most recent thing installed, could be a printer or anything connected to the system or just a driver issue, windows update may have updated a driver and the newer driver isn't the right thing for it to use is a likely scenario that happens a bit.
Still did not boot. tried using windows 10 to repair. i got the "drive where windows is installed is locked" when i tried to reset windows while keeping files. It doesnt really suggest anything useful. I think you're right about the fact it might be a newer driver isnt working right
Take the HDD or SSD out, plug it into another system, copy all your data off it, start over.
sounds like a simple solution. any strings attached?
No, unless you don't have your windows keys....cough cough
luckily i do!!!!
Just backup your data and reinstall Windows on that baby! As a note, you should use something to check your hard drive for SMART errors and actual diagnostics to see if it's bad. HD Tune isn't a bad option, and there are others as well depending on what you want to use.
Thanks! What are certain thing i should backup? I have done a few things but theyre might be some crucial things im forgetting. HELP PLEASE!!