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Boot fail: how to troubleshoot?
- Hi, was your Windows 10 updated? the latest build is 1909 at the moment.
keeping an OS updated (Android, Windows, IOS etc) is itself a preventing measure to keep the OS running well.
I see you've done your fair share of troubleshooting and you can already salvage your data, also it seems refreshing/resetting Windows 10 from recovery environment fails for you too?
so may I suggest to do a clean install? you can always grab the latest ISO file from here, put it to USB and do the clean install:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
keeping an OS updated (Android, Windows, IOS etc) is itself a preventing measure to keep the OS running well.
I see you've done your fair share of troubleshooting and you can already salvage your data, also it seems refreshing/resetting Windows 10 from recovery environment fails for you too?
so may I suggest to do a clean install? you can always grab the latest ISO file from here, put it to USB and do the clean install:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I ended up having to do a clean install. Had this been a hardware fault I expect I'd have had problems. What annoys me about the Win RE is that why, if this is only a software issue, could it not have fixed that? The concept of replacing corrupted file, and rebuilding corrupted partition/file system info should be fully integrated into the RE and yet it failed on all counts, and yet, it did see 4 System Restore points, and could even browse the full file system of C: with no issues. So perhaps it's some screwy thing with those hidden partitions but let's just say that my confidence in the WinRE kind of went down here, even Reset this PC failed and that makes little sense since it all went to plan by me just wiping out partitions and starting anew.
Ah well 🙂