windows 8 not loading even with recovery disk

daveyowen

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Hello all,Please note than I am not that IT savvy.
Have a Dell Inspiron 17 core i3 with window,s 8 which was upgraded over the internet to 8.1. The operating system will not 'fire up'. I have a windows 8. 32 & 64 BIT recovery/reinstall disc. This does not see. To get me anywhere after f12 and changing to legacy and cd/DVD/cd-rw drive. Nothing else gets me anywhere so I run through the command prompt as recommended on some sites. From x:\sources. Bootrec/fixmbr and fixboot both worked successfully. The scanos results in one windows installation in c:/windows with the operation completed successfully.


With x:/sources> boot rev/rebuildbcd I get one windows installation. However when I hit 'A' return I get "the requested system device cannot be found"


I then try


Diskport X:\sources>diskpart
Sel disk 0 DISKPART>sel disk 0
List vol. DISKPART>list vol. I get


Volume ltr label. Fs. Type. Size
0. D win8aio. Udr. Dvdrom. 3978mb
1. C os. Ntfs. Partition. 916mb
2. Fat32. Ditto. 500mb
3. Winretools Ntfs. Ditto. 500mb
4. Ntfs. Ditto. 450mb
5. Pbr image. Ntfs. Ditto. 13gb
6. Dials. Fat32. Ditto. 40mb


So I select. DISKPART> sel vol 2


Return says. Volume 2 is the selected volume.......then


DISKPART>assign letter=z:
Diskpart successfully assigned.................
Then hit exit and it returns to


X:/sources>. Cd /d z:\efi\microsoft\boot


However I get the message. The system cannot find the path specified.




Can someone please advise ?


Many thanks,

David
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1
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