CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED and cant read boot device on startup

axe0 said:

Seems the last time I posted SeaTools pic didn't load.
You need to replace your hard drive a.s.ap. and backup your stuff.

Is that possible with my Alienware model?? I don't think it is...

Oh lol, I meant replacement! Sorry, I should have been more clear. Hope you feel better soon :)

axe0 said:

If you have warranty, use it to replace the hard drive.
If you have no warranty, search for a proper video to replace the hard drive (assuming you're not 100% sure about what to do) and do it yourself.

Ok sounds good. Should I mark this as solved then or should I wait until after I test out the new hard drive?

Ok so I'm installing Windows 10 onto a brand new hard drive as we speak. Then I'm going to transfer over any files from the old hard drive to the new one (my laptop has 2 HDD slots). Question - could I simply format the broken hard drive and then reinstall Windows on it in order to keep using it?

Another question/problem: I installed the new hard drive and used the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to put windows 10 onto a USB drive and then installed Windows 10 on the new hard drive's primary partition.

I finished the installation and then upon starting it asked me to choose which volume I wanted to boot on a blue screen. The options were "Windows 10 volume 7" and "Windows 10 volume 3". Remembering from the screen where I had to choose which partition I wanted to install on, I naturally picked volume 7 because partitions 1-5 were for the original hard drive and partitions 6-10 (don't remember the exact amount) were for the 2nd hard drive.

So then it finished installing and restarted one more time and on the blue screen with the two options above, the "Windows 10 volume 7" option was now simply "Windows 10" and the other option remained the same with "Windows 10 volume 3". Naturally, I picked the default (first option).


Here is the strange part: All of my stuff is here! My files, my desktop background, my programs, everything is here. But I think this indicates that the 2nd hard drive is not working. Also, when I put in my PIN to login to Windows, the login was very slow - almost as slow as when I was having problems with the broken hard drive.

I thought this was pretty strange, so I restarted and went to the BIOS. From there, I selected to boot from the 2nd hard drive. It gave me this screen:

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So I restarted and this time I didn't use the BIOS to select the BOOT, I only waited until it gave me the blue screen with the 2 "Windows 10" options. I selected the first option, "Windows 10".

Here is what appears after getting to the desktop and opening up File Explorer:

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OS (C:) has a size of 640 GB, which corresponds to the broken hard drive.
Local Disk (F:) has a size of 390 GB, which corresponds to the new hard drive.

I'm really confused as to why this is happening. Could you help me out? Or would you like me to post this in a different section of this forum instead? Your call.