BSOD — Cannot Access Windows 10

miza84 · 16 Sep 2016

Yesterday, I was playing The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, when the program crashed. I mistakenly hit the "sleep" button on my keyboard, which seemed to shut everything down. When I tried to reactivate the computer, it took me a non-functioning Windows 10 screen devoid of clickable icons.

Unable to shut it down with the Start Menu, I shut it down manually. This time, it took me to a disk repair notice. Regrettably, I did not write down the data error. After a while, the computer shut down again, turned back on, and got stuck in a loading screen.

Currently, I can't get past the loading screen (the blue one with the dots circling around the center). Is there a way to fix this without rebooting Windows 10? Assuming I do have to reboot, how would I do that given that I can't access anything?

I am running Windows 10 on a Bootcamp emulator.

Thank you.

axe0 · 17 Sep 2016

Hi miza84,

You would need 3 boot failures to get to the troubleshooting options.
From the troubleshooting options you need to go to the advanced troubleshooting options, there you can find a few options.
In these options choose 'Startup repair', in most situation it will say that it couldn't repair or resolve the problem.
Run startup repair up to 3 times with a reboot between each, then try to boot again and be patience please.

miza84 · 17 Sep 2016

Hmm, okay. I was able to access startup repair last night, and rebooted, but nothing happened. Worse, I couldn't get back into startup repair.

I'll give it another shot. If that doesn't work, I'll probably have to reinstall.

Thank you!