Final Update:

Ok, so forget everything that's gone before. I now know what the issue is - trouble is I can't solve it.

I did all the stuff to get my (new) HDD to AHCI and found a driver. All...

UPDATE:

An interesting thing has popped up... I got my new HDD and decided not to clone the other drive immediately but I thought since WIn10 free upgrades end this month it would make more...

Still waiting for my HDD !!

I've been experimenting with WMIC again. I need to ask a question:

Using WMIC in my recovery environment it seems to work well to list things like running processes...

Should be simple then. Hopefully all will go without a hitch. I'll report back when it's done. Maybe it will throw up something else! :(

Hi guys,

Still waiting for my new HDD. Supplier sent me a faulty one (wouldn't format) so I had to return it and get a replacement (just bad luck I guess).

While waiting, I decided to get hold...

Yes, I agree with you. However, if it's a new drive, I clone it and it works then we can all rest easy. If the issue is exactly the same then we've created another "unknown". I know this is clutching...

You're right. it isn't a normal setup. I originally purchased 4 * 2GB modules from a friend of mine as they were the recommended type for my mobo. However, he damaged one taking it out of his machine...

Hi axe0,
Tried HDTune and it doesn't seem to want to read the SMART info.

Odd, until I checked this and it seems that HDTune doesn't read WD drives very well in this area. There are many posts...

Hi,
I did run WD Diagnostics against the drive when I tool it out and put it in a drive caddy. The diagnostics came up clean and came up with a PASS on SMART.

So, I though it was about time I...

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Seatools final Screen. All looks fine. States that tests were passed.

As per the log: Startup repairs = 12

After the Sea Tools routine is finished, I'll try 3 startup repairs in a row. Worth I try I think. I've never run any more that one before then dropping to a...

Oh, and some more info to add...
I decided to check the ntbtlog.txt file and found that it stops at usbhub3.sys. Checking the system32 directory revealed that this file was missing so I tried...

Oh, and some more info to add...
I decided to check the ntbtlog.txt file and found that it stops at usbhub3.sys. Checking the system32 directory revealed that this file was missing so I tried...

Chkdsk on both the boot partition and the windows partition comes up with no errors. Had to dismount the windows drive first...

I had been trying to get Powershell to start in order to run a few...

What I see is a few hardware related crashes, a 0x9F caused by Kaspersky and one I've never seen before showing a lot from the file system.
axe0 Noted! Still running tests. Will revert here...

Hi guys,

Thanks for sticking with me. I'll answer these two posts separately should you both wish to comment.

Ztrucker first...

There are a few minidump files (5 to be exact). I've zipped...

Devcon actually works fine. I got it from the WDK. Had to install all of it onto another machine first to be able to extract devcon.exe (the 64 bit version I needed) but... after putting onto my...

It seems that you can use devcon.exe to disable drivers. It's a complex command line set but I'm going to see if I can disable all my NVidia drivers to see if that could be causing my issues. Hammer...

Hi. I appreciate that you're still with me on this...

I was 100% sure that system restore was enabled (there's no reason not to have it turned on). However, booting from a recovery USB shows that...

Hi, many thanks for replying.

I thought I'd gone down this route before (I've had this problem a while now). However, I decided to go through the procedure suggested anyway. Made sense.
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Hi Everyone.
Hopefully I can resolve this... I've tried everything to sort this out but nothing so far has yielded any positive results.

I cannot boot my Win 10 Pro at all. All efforts result...