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Win10 custom PC stopped booting (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dotCody@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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Just started today. Was able to let it automatic repair and boot up. Was on for like 10 hours, shut down and tried to boot up some hours later. Now its completely stuck on automatic repair. Have unplugged all additional hdd's and then all unnesscarry USB's. Still doing this. Also removed my ethernet card. Still the same.

I cannot lose my data. I have several SSD's and HDD's with important files across several of them.

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[–] Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Booting from a usb is not working. Automatic repair is hanging for hours.

Do you mean just a Windows USB, or anything USB?

Personally what I'd do in that situation is load SystemRescue onto a bootable USB (can use YUMI or Ventoy), boot off that, let it run a memtest for a few passes to rule out RAM issues. Then if that looks okay boot into SystemRescue again and run a smartctl long test against the NVME drive in the computer and make sure those stats look good. That should at least rule out RAM and SSD problems.

With Ventoy you can load other OSes too, copy a Ubuntu Linux ISO on there and see if the system can live boot into Linux. If it does then maybe your issue is purely just Windows being Windows, there's only so much you can do with a broken install.

Though I'm a bit surprised you can't at least boot off a Windows USB and go into recovery mode.. maybe double-check that your boot USBs actually work on other desktops/laptops? Would be silly but possible you have both a system/Windows issue along with a bad USB drive making things extra confusing.

Im going to get an nvme adapter, pull the important data off of my c drive

Yup definitely work on that, feels like even if your hardware is fine/fixable you're going to have to re-install your entire OS no matter what.