I have a Dell 17R SE that came running Windows 8. It has two drive bays, and since I wasn't quite ready to leave Windows 7 behind, I threw in a Samsung 840 120GB and installed 7. Once that finished, Windows 8 stopped booting. before i put the SSD in, I had created a second partition on the 1TB HDD with the intention of moving the Windows 7 user data folders to it. In the Windows 7 disk management utility, I deleted the partition, and suddenly windows 8 worked fine, even after I recreated the partition in Windows 8. The only issue was that, whenever I tried to load 7, it would insist that I run chkdsk on ALL the drives in my system (this didn't happen when I loaded 8). I finally let it run in 7, and when I went back to 8, the Windows Store app had mysteriously stopped working. I ran a system refresh which fixed that issue, and for about a day, I thought I had it all finally working fine.
Then, today, I boot up Windows 8, and it gives me a KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Some help threads suggested I run more chkdsk, so I let Windows 8 check only its own system partition, and it got hung up around 27%.
I understand how incredibly convoluted this may be. I'm not sure if this would be the best place for this thread. If not, please direct me to a better area =)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Then, today, I boot up Windows 8, and it gives me a KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Some help threads suggested I run more chkdsk, so I let Windows 8 check only its own system partition, and it got hung up around 27%.
I understand how incredibly convoluted this may be. I'm not sure if this would be the best place for this thread. If not, please direct me to a better area =)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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