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Windows does not boot but restart over and over again after black and blank windows logo
Okay, earlier I made a system restore USB stick from another computer. I can boot from that and use the command prompt.
But when I type to boot into safe mode:
X:\windows\system32>bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal
The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
The configuration registry database is corrupt.
if there are important files in your C drive that you don't want to lose (because for clean install you have to format C drive), use a Linux live disk to copy them to another drive.
HotCakeX I have tried having a fresh install and clean reinstall (both options). But everything is failing. It says getting ready then the Lenovo laptop restarts but the processes fail.
I even tried fixing startup problems and removing the last windows update with wusa (says no such internal command or batch file) and dism with Image option as online option is not acceptable saying there is a problem. But everything has failed with an error message. When I do:
x:\windows\System32>dir c: I/O error on device.But I can mount the hard drive /dev/sda2 on a separate folder (Solid State Drive) using installed Debian Stretch as NTFS mount type with the commands mount /dev/sda2 /win10 then cp -R /win10/* /winstorage/. that was partitioned with gparted downloaded like apt-get update && apt-get install gparted).
I can even copy all the files from C: No problem. Can anyone tell me what should I do now?
When I ran chkdsk c: /f /x /r it reports 0 bad sectors 0 bad registers or there is anything wrong with the hard drive. But after couple of minutes later the command refuses to run fully. It returns prematurely with exit status -1 on stderr.
P.S. This System Rescue USB strick which is 32GB or 32 x 1024 MB is not created on my Lenovo computer. But made on a different HP desktop Windows 10 PC.
- maybe a hardware problem then?
because you said even clean installing with a fresh new ISO file fails too..bad sector maybe?HotCakeX The laptop is only 2 years old with SSD drive. Isn't it theoretically impossible for an SSD drive to become corrupted?