Just ran chkdsk on both drives and everything is fine. Thanks again for the big help!

This was a good reminder of how important backups are. I've been sloppy but after this I really need to keep...

You've helped a ton. I had to go back into my BIOS to put the windows boot manager at the top of the list, but now everything is booting fine. I'll run chkdsk from the command prompt. What options do...

YES! My PC has booted back into Windows! I can't thank you enough!

At first I still got the "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected device and press a key." message,...

Okay - i'll try rebooting now and see what happens.

Ah, okay - I should know how to CD out and to the right place but I'm always confused how to do that. Right now I'm at:

C:\>

in the cmd prompt.

I ran the following in the cmd prompt of the recovery CD I burned:

x:\windows\system32>BootRec /FixBoot
x:\windows\system32>BootRec /FixMBR

both said completed successfully, but it was...

I just finished successfully burning the bootable rescue disk to DVD using Brasero. I'll first try to pull up a cmd prompt using the Windows 10 installer thumb drive and I'll try your commands above....

How can I burn that image file linked to in an earlier post - Kyhl's bootable rescue disc? I right-click the downloaded ISO in Linux and I get an option to open in disk image writer. But in my list...

That sounds plausible. So how can it be repaired? How can this happen by watching a video?

It's not a cable issue. The PC has been fine since I built it months ago, until an hour ago when I clicked in media player classic to skip ahead in the video. The instant I clicked the progress bar I...

I am unfamiliar with Linux which is what I'm on currently to access this forum. How do I burn that file to a disc? I'm used to using imgburn in Windows but on Linux I'm lost. It's currently...

The drive hasn't failed because I can access the files in Linux.

But I was only using Linux after I was unable to boot Windows. I never use Linux and I am unfamiliar with it. I just use the Linux disc I made in case of an emergency like this. What would happen if...

I've tried unplugging the 2nd (data) drive and the PC still doesn't boot. I check the BIOS and tried putting both the boot manager and the OS drive in the first boot order - either way it won't boot....

As I mentioned I have a USB thumb drive of Windows 10. I tried using that to select "repair PC" but it said it could not repair the PC.

I cannot boot into safe mode either. It's like it doesn't...

My Windows 10 64-bit PC just crashed about an hour ago. I was watching a video in media player classic and I clicked on the bar to skip ahead and the PC just instantly threw up a blue screen and said...