OK please bear with me as I am slowly going insane. My niece owns this HP Envy M6 laptop that will not boot the installed Windows 8 or could even be 8.1. I have tried Legacy and the UEFI to no avail. I can get to a command prompt booting off a USB recovery I made with Rufus. I have tried BOOTREC with /FIXBOOT (says OK) /FIXMBR (says OK) /REBUILDBCD but it gives an error. I've followed lots of threads and typed all kinds of things til my fingers are raw. Some of them say can't find, some say drive is locked, unlock which I can't find how to do. I can run Windows 8 that is a WinUSB and Windows 10 they same way. Some of the instructions just go off into the wilderness. What I need is not only a list of what to do but what is it doing. BCDEDIT gives me nonsense. It's hard to know if what you are doing will work if you don't know what it's doing or what you should see. None of those that say SOLVED solves anything for me. I've even tried those "click here to fix" which I can't install because I can't get Windows to boot!
Do I just tell my niece it's a lost cause then go get drunk? If this is what the "new" Windows 8 is like then is the "newer" Windows 10 going to be a complete fiasco? <<whimper whimper!!>>
Michael
Do I just tell my niece it's a lost cause then go get drunk? If this is what the "new" Windows 8 is like then is the "newer" Windows 10 going to be a complete fiasco? <<whimper whimper!!>>
Michael
My Computer
System One
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