Windows 10 screwed my laptop hard..

Bazz said:

Should be on the main tab, look for Boot Devices

I just did the Hard Drive Check and did both the Quick Check and Extensive Check, both results were Smart Check: Passed while Short DST: Failed.. both times

Bralle9 said:

I just did the Hard Drive Check and did both the Quick Check and Extensive Check, both results were Smart Check: Passed while Short DST: Failed.. both times

Is your Hard Drive Listed? like here First Drive.

Since you did make an image I would try making a win 10 dvd and try to upgrade again . Or do a clean install but not format the drive.

Its looking like clean installing w10 from a bootable USB ( I assume your upgraded w10 is activated) . obviously you will need another machine to create the bootable USB from a w10 iso . I'm sorry you've lost your work and hopefully I'm wrong about having to reinstall . you can use a bootable USB creator tool , I like Rufus( free) myself . check in your bios for uefi settings and ensure legacy isn't selected , also make sure the boot order is correctly set to boot from external device first .

Good luck

Bazz said:

Hi

If you have lots of files on there you need boot from a Linux CD and get them off before you reinstall.

Regards

Exactly what I'd do. Don't forget he may have to contend with any UEFI restrictions imposed by the BIOS. He may have to disable UEFI in the BIOS for it to recognize a USB device if he's using one to recover any files.

Bazz said:

Is your Hard Drive Listed? like here First Drive.

My startup menu does not look like that, Id attach a picture but I dont know how since I am using my phone to do this

Slugger said:

Since you did make an image I would try making a win 10 dvd and try to upgrade again . Or do a clean install but not format the drive.

Sorry, my laptop does not have a DVD disk inserter, no discs can be inserted, if you mean that I should make a booted version .iso and then place it in the flashdrive then maybe my laptop will respond

Bralle9 said:

My startup menu does not look like that, Id attach a picture but I dont know how since I am using my phone to do this

If you have another pc use that get me a pic of your Bios. It should look something like that they are all similar.

Bralle9 said:

Sorry, my laptop does not have a DVD disk inserter, no discs can be inserted, if you mean that I should make a booted version .iso and then place it in the flashdrive then maybe my laptop will respond

Well it's up to you but if your Drive is not listed in the bios it's a waste of time.

Bazz said:

If you have another pc use that get me a pic of your Bios. It should look something like that they are all similar.

This is how my startup menu looks like