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JMcAlpine
Copper Contributor
Apr 24, 2019

Windows 10 updated, now wont load

My Lenovo Ideapad did an update today as I was shutting it down. I went to go start it up and it asked me to select my keyboard option (I thought it was weird but didnt think much of it), it then cam...
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JMcAlpine
Copper Contributor
May 12, 2019

Don Cuthbert 

 

 

Hi Don,

 

Thanks for your recommendations, Ive tried everything up to rebuilding the system partition. My C drive appears okay, but how would you recommend I go about copying everything to a usb? Would booting Windows from a USB be the easiest solution?

 

Sorry it has gotten taken so long for me to get back to you, it has been a crazy couple of weeks haha

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Don Cuthbert
Brass Contributor
May 12, 2019

JMcAlpine 

Now that you have repaired the Windows files on C:, try booting normally again.  If you cannot boot, you can try the commands provided earlier to refresh the System files on the hard disk. The menus you originally showed are from your hard disk, so after the sfc repair, Windows may now work.

 

You can just insert a blank USB stick, determine it's drive letter and then copy files from C: to F: or whatever drive letters are used.  Xcopy can copy folders and all of the files they contain.  You can run xcopy /? to see all of the options and syntax for using it.