That's great. Let me know how it runs. Well done.

It shouldn't, but I have asked someone else to come see what the problem is.

Did you put in a key number during the install? Was it activated before you reinstalled it? If it was activated before you did the reinstall, there should be a computer profile of your computer on...

No, leave your post there. It may help others. I'll remove mine.

Welcome aboard simrick. Simrick also suggested a Macrium WinPE rescue disk to fix the boot sector. It could be a good option as well. But, I also agree, it may be a quicker fix to reinstall the OS.

You'll never be put on the bench and you know it. I've tried everything I know and googled the heck out of it. The only thing I know to do is nuke the drive and clean install, but I would think there...

This is from post #1. I believe it is UEFI.



I don't know about secure boot. The EFI partition has to be selected as the boot partition, I believe and should be the active partition.

Are you sing bitlocker or other encryption software?

OK, try getting to the command prompt and running these commands and press enter after each one. Then try to rteboot.

bootrec /fixMBR
bootrec /fixBoot
bootrec /rebuildBCD

Most of your personal files are in Users. Documents, pictures, music and such. Copy them all out and onto another hard drive., just in case.

When you search your hard drive can you get into and read the folders under users?

Hello 7Malligk, I will try to help you with this. The first thing I would like you to do, is go into BIOS and Boot Tab and see if your hard drive is listed there and what the boot devices are set to....