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Yes please when you have time post a screenshot of the Disk Management console.
Yes please when you have time post a screenshot of the Disk Management console.
Please re-post the image:
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of General Tips Tutorials
UPDATE
My PC was just thrown into "Inaccessible Boot Device" again and this time I tried using Windows Startup Repair (expecting it to fail). It actually brought my PC back and cleared the inaccessible boot device problem.
I am still unsure whether or not this is a permanent solution but let's just continue trying to solve it anyways to be sure its fixed.
1) Have you backed up all files?
2) Have you made a backup image and updated the image?
3) Have you made a new restore point
4) Please run this log collector and post a zip into this thread:
log collector v2-beta08.zip
5) Please perform these tests on the drive: Either HD Tune or HD Sentinel
HD Tune: http://www.hdtune.com/
a) Health (SMART)
b) Benchmark
c) Full error scan
Post images into the thread of each scan result:
Take Screenshot in Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials
or
5) Run HD Sentinel: (free or trial edition)Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring
5a) click disk > surface test > post image into the thread
(this may take several hours to complete)
5b) Post images of each of these tabs into the thread:
Overview tab
Temperature
SMART
Disk performance
Take Screenshot in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials
Take Screenshot in Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials
All of these were done for my SSD because that is where Windows is installed and that's the drive i want to boot to.
Health https://i.imgur.com/ddq0W0f.png
Benchmark https://i.imgur.com/LdsQCtE.png
Full error scan https://i.imgur.com/1IBRpks.png
Log Collector Nole (tenforums) (2018-01-25 18 46).zip
1. Backup? no
2. backup image? no
3. I just made new restore point.
KB4056892 is the offending update, struggled with this since DEC!!!!!!
It somehow manages to wipe the reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWARE_MICROSOFT_WINDOWS CURRENT VERSION
which is where windows is told about the boot drive and program files.
Solution:
Boot from recovery drive
restore system image (system restore did not try it)
Kill windows update (disable) in services
Open regedit and navigate to above key. confirm all string values ProgramFilesDir etc are shown.
Open update and security and remove all WIN 10 (not office etc) updates after KB4056892.
Close and re-open regedit and re-check key for string values.
If present re-boot and all should be good. Restoring the registry will not solve the problem
Another way to check if this is the issue is to use the Media Creation tool after it downloads your only option will be full install as
"Windows is installed in an unsupported directory" in other words Windows Registry checker can't find the correct path
because the key has been deleted
Hope this helps someone, took me weeks to figure out what was happening
These are the windows updates:
HotFixID Description InstalledOn
-------- ----------- -----------
KB4048951 Security Update 02-Dec-17 00:00:00
KB4054022 Update 13-Dec-17 00:00:00
KB4053577 Security Update 14-Dec-17 00:00:00
KB4058043 Update 17-Dec-17 00:00:00
KB4056892 Security Update 06-Jan-18 00:00:00
KB4058702 Update 06-Jan-18 00:00:00
KB4056887 Security Update 10-Jan-18 00:00:00
For startup and recovery > system failure > un-check automatically restart
Change power plan to high performance