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Unable to restore windows 10
I was having constant disk thrashing so I disabled startup items and booted in safe mode which fixed the issue. I then re-enabled the startup items and restarted but now it fails to boot with 'windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change etc'. status 0xc000000e info: a required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. The only os shown is windows vista - I don't have Vista installed.
I have a windows 10 disk so I rebooted with. After selecting language there are a number of repair options: reset this pc, use system restore, startup repair, go back to a previous build - everyone of them has a target operating system of windows vista!
Despite this I tried:
- startup repair - 'startup repair couldn't fix your pc'
- system restore - 'system restore couldn't find the offline boot volume'
- go back to a previous build - 'we ran into a problem and wont be able to take you back...try resetting your pc'
- system image recovery - 'we cannot find a system image on this computer'
- reset this pc - 'the drive where windows is installed is locked'
I'm not very impressed that the windows 10 install broke so easily and doubly pissed that none of the repair options work.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Last edited by bikeman; 30 Jun 2016 at 15:15.