So out of no where my PC will not boot. First it would just go to a black screen with a flashing underscore in the top left. Found the bios wasn’t trying to boot the correct drive ?
Pointed it to what was the c drive and it gives me the 0xc000000d blue screen. I created a recover drive with another window 10 pc and the automated repair fails. I tried using command.
Bootrec /fixBoot fails says elemnt not found and
Bootrec /scanos and Bootrec /rebuildbcd fail they come back saying the total identified windows installations: 0
Performed the nearly 5 hour long CHKDSK from command and it came back with no corrupted files or errors ?
Last attempt I made was some one said that I should check the drives with gparted and make sure the partition was flagged as boot. Well my problem now is gparted shows both of my drives as completely unallocated.
Am I essentially dead in the water here ? Both drives show up in bios as themselves with correct names and sizes and they show up in g parted but appear unallocated. Is my only option to repartition them and start from scratch ? And what could have caused this. Any way this could be a bios issued and updating it would help ?
makes me think that the drive where you installed Windows in basically lost/corrupted the master boot record and it took with it the second hard drive you had in the system. You installed Windows with both drives inside, right?
The error seems referred to one of the first sector of the drive you tried to boot from.
If you don’t have any important files you absolutely need to recover you can directly try THIS guide. Or, if you’re worried about losing all the files, make a bit-by-bit copy of the drives and try different solutions.
0xc000000d suggests that the NTFS file system that contains the Windows install. As @MetalizeYourBrain said, if you have anything important on it, you could try to recover it using a tool like Hiren’s Boot CD. If not, it’ll probably be faster to reinstall windows. Windows 10 installs (by default, when the install is booted in an EFI-aware mode) using a GPT partition table, so don’t have a master boot record.
Technically there’s always a master boot record section in the partition table even if you’re using GPT to boot off of. The BIOS needs it to know what to do with the hard drive. But yeah, I was wrong about MBR. You need to restore the drive as GPT.
Kinda. Unless you are comfortable with linux and want to try to recover info off the drive. I’ve had varying degrees of success with testdisk and photorec.
This doesnt mean a whole lot, just that gparted doesnt recognize the FS which is an indication that its corrupted.
Only if you dont desire to attempt recovery.
Corruption, either due to disk failure or software issues.
The bios should not really be able to do anything to write the disk in any way so no.
Without the machine in front of me I couldnt really help to diagnose what went wrong. I would question everything, board, power, drives.