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ViProCon
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Mar 17, 2020

Boot fail: how to troubleshoot?

Hi all.   I just wanted to double-check my troubleshooting thinking here, maybe I'm missing something in the modern era of Win 10.   So a laptop with a 2.5" HDD first boots up and gives the light-b...
  • HotCakeX's avatar
    Mar 18, 2020
    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