Windows 10 fails to start on the system.
Windows 10 fails to start on the system.
Hi, Could use some help. Woke up this week to a laptop that reset overnight, prompting to choose keyboard layout. Dell Inspiron 5566 about 3 years old. Backing up data now before I try anymore fixes. Here is what I tried so far and the results as best I can remember: Command prompt to "get reg back" showed nothing. no string of numbers, no zeros, just the disk itself. 1) Tried all WRE fixes to no avail. 2) Command prompt SFC-"windows resource protection could not perform the requested operation" 3) Not sure but think I tried boot rec.exe next which lead to "cyclical redundancy check" error 4 think next I ran chdsk X/ f /r / v (prob wrong letters I know, but something like that) So then it started to work for a while saying things like "file segment record unreadable" "deleting indexing file 1234.wav" "deleting orphan file" "fixing bad clusters" and "failed to transfer logged messages" So I thought after all that , maybe success, but it restarted to same keyboard layout prompt. So on researching I know basically the OS can't find the needed files to boot, and I know there are some other things I can try (fix mbr etc) My questions; 1) Am I better off just getting new drive? ( read cyclical error and logged error might mean there is actual hardware damage) 2) Or do you think one of these data recovery/disk fix programs like testdisk can fix my problem.? Would prefer to not have to reinstall everything again. Any insight is appreciated. thanks
I used it the night before and upon waking, it displayed a reset screen like during the initial Windows setup. About a week ago it became stuck on the login screen, and after restarting it began scanning and repairing itself, leading me to think these events were connected.