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Issues on boot up
Hi,
I have a old Lenovo SL500 that I use as a cheap media box. I've got Windows 10 installed on it and it has been running great up until this morning. When I came down it was not responding to RDP requests and it was not listed on Teamviewer. Looking at the machine all there was was a black screen so no aid on whats wrong. I rebooted and all I get after POST is the flashing underscore.
Since that I have tried:
* tried f8 to get in to safe mode, no joy
* Booting into Linux from a pen drive (can see the hard drive but its locked and cannot access it)
* Booting in to the windows recovery console and tried a repair (failed)
* Tried a system restore point (failed)
* Tried CHKDSK /f/R (seems to finish fine with 0 bad sectors but I get the error message "failed to transfer logged messages status 50" - I think thats "normal" when running it from install media)
* Tried fixing and restore post CHKDSK same issues
* SFC /SCANNOW
* BOOTREC /SCANOS (says 0 windows installs found!)
So I am running out of ideas. It seems the Hard drive is fine as CHKDSK is fine but either the boot sector or the OS thats buggered. Before I hose it, is there something I have missed that I can try that is non-destructive that does not involve me re-installing all my programs?
Its not got too much on it from memory the programs I'd installed were:
* Bitdefender
* Firefox
* Aceviewer media player
* Sop player
* VLC
* Flash (yeah I know)
Thanks in advance!