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Fail to Boot after Intel RST Install - Repair Apparently Impossible
Upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 a week ago. 120G SSD, Windows image sits on 111 gig partition with a 450mb "recovery" partition showing up (??) in disk management and diskpart. Installed Intel RST drivers today and it has been downhill ever since.
File system looks intact - I now have the drive out and on a usb external. All of my efforts to mend image in situ have been fruitless.
I have tried pretty much every option in the automated recovery environment with no success. Windows will not boot into safe mode in spite of reverting the machine via command line back to legacy boot sequence.
A 128 gig usb flash disk with an O&O backup disk image made two days ago somehow got corrupted and is now unreadable. System restore point not set (for whatever reason I thought it was). This is the third machine in my house that has been upgraded to Windows 10 and the installs have all begun to run together in my mind. This is a perfect storm of boneheaded error on my part. Not a good evening for me so far...
I ran a series of mbr restore commands as specified in this link. Nothing has helped. Recovery environment simply does not see a valid windows installation. When rebooting after hitting F8 for safe mode, I get the light blue "Your PC needs to be repaired” and “Error code: 0xc0000225" screen. So not even a safe mode to reverse those pesky drivers.
I also followed the instructions in this link without getting the system to boot.
After selecting "startup repair" in the recovery environment, the SrtTrail logfile shows "The operating system version is incompatible with Startup Repair" maybe because the only installation disk I have is 8.1? Is there even a 10 startup disk like the old vista and 7 iso's out there?
I suspect windows is not seeing the drive because the RST drivers are preventing the system from seeing the drive even when in the recovery environment. Intel warned me before installing them that they were irreversible. Maybe the solution would be to change some registry values via command line, but I need some help with that if anyone is inclined.
The reason I have avoided a clean re-install is the sheer volume of applications I have, as well as having to wait on windows 10 to do its thing, then download again, etc. I would like to somehow get this drive to boot.
Thanks in advance for any advice or help.
geoff
Last edited by sasquatchgeoff; 04 Sep 2015 at 08:28.