Windows cannot boot after today's update

Helltech · 20 Mar 2019

I think what happened is after today's update all of a sudden windows wants to boot from a different disk drive, though I'm not sure why. In bios it is set to boot from my boot drive.

Window 10 boot error - Album on Imgur

As you can see Window Boot Repair is trying to use disks f and x for some reason all of a sudden instead of c. Not sure why and not sure how to fix that? It's like the update I just did installed files to the wrong drive?

Can't get into safe mode either.

Unplugging my other two drive (I have a 240 ssd boot that is my c drive and then a 500gb ssd for games and 1tb hdd for storage) it still won't boot. It then gives me the same error this time giving disk d and disk x instead of f and x as shown in the picture above.

System Restore says an unspecified error occurred (0x80070570).

dalchina · 21 Mar 2019

Hi, which is "today's update" ? That can be different for different people- an update for 1803, 1809, an update from, say, 1803 to 1809, an update of an Insider build......

When a particular update is applied can be on different dates for different users.

And how was this update applied? - By Windows update? Manually?

Assuming your disk is intact, and you're not part way through a feature update (upgrade) which failed, you could try
- booting from a Win 10 bootable medium and via option 'Repair your Windows..' navigate to Startup Repair
- booting from a Macrium Reflect boot disk and use the useful Fix boot utility

Failing all of the above, please use a bootable partition manager to post a screenshot or photo of the partitions on your boot disk.

E.g. you could create Kyhi's bootable disk (top of the Software and Apps section) or use a bootable disk from a 3rd party partition manager.