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I'm going to post in here what I did to get my OS booting again, hope it's helpful to most people
I was watching movies while I slept. At about 6:00 this am, my VLC media player locked up and the whole OS was jammed up tight as a drum - So I was able to get it to "restart" but it locked up during restart- When it came back up it was trying to do an Automatic Repair and if found that it needed to scan the drive. So I let it, but after an hour I just said "forget it" and tried to reboot again. I was hoping that I could bypass the scan somehow, sometimes, right before it does the automated scandisk, it will give you exactly one second to cancel out of it.
But Automatic Repair kept coming up and finally I got an error message that said "Boot Volume Not Mountable".
As I have been having trouble with this drive where Windows 8 is installed, I knew I had to do a scan with GWscan, which is on my Hiren's Boot DVD.
So I did this, and it took about an hour and a half to scan through 500 GB of junk. But it fixed the disk errors and I was able to get to the Boot Choice Menu, because I have Windows 7 and 8 installed as a dual boot.
So I got into Windows 7 and I ran a full CHKDSK from there, it fixed the filesystem errors. I then checked all of the other drives and they were fine.
Then I rebooted back into Windows 8 and it ran the Automatic Repair, foudn some mroe filesystem errors, fixed them, and rebooted once more and Windows 8 finally came up.
If your drives are in good shape, you should be able to just run the Automated Repair and it will fix why Windows won't boot - Most of the time - But when there are deeper errors on the Disk, Windows 8 is not set up to check those, and if it can't mount the Windows 8 Volume, you'll simply get a Black or Blue screen of Death with only a mouse and nothing else. It's because the Boot Volume is not mounted, and the Automated Repair can't get to the tools it needs to finish the repair.
My next step is to move the entire volume to a new drive, which is easy to do for Windows 7 but I don't know how Windows 8 will take a change of hardware, it may want to be re-activated, but I've reactivated 3 times on this system, that's no problem.
I just want to ask - Is there any way to set up the Automatic Repair to give you more then 1 second to bypass a drive scan? By the time the start screen informs you that you have one second to escape out of it, it's too late to escape out of it.
I was watching movies while I slept. At about 6:00 this am, my VLC media player locked up and the whole OS was jammed up tight as a drum - So I was able to get it to "restart" but it locked up during restart- When it came back up it was trying to do an Automatic Repair and if found that it needed to scan the drive. So I let it, but after an hour I just said "forget it" and tried to reboot again. I was hoping that I could bypass the scan somehow, sometimes, right before it does the automated scandisk, it will give you exactly one second to cancel out of it.
But Automatic Repair kept coming up and finally I got an error message that said "Boot Volume Not Mountable".
As I have been having trouble with this drive where Windows 8 is installed, I knew I had to do a scan with GWscan, which is on my Hiren's Boot DVD.
So I did this, and it took about an hour and a half to scan through 500 GB of junk. But it fixed the disk errors and I was able to get to the Boot Choice Menu, because I have Windows 7 and 8 installed as a dual boot.
So I got into Windows 7 and I ran a full CHKDSK from there, it fixed the filesystem errors. I then checked all of the other drives and they were fine.
Then I rebooted back into Windows 8 and it ran the Automatic Repair, foudn some mroe filesystem errors, fixed them, and rebooted once more and Windows 8 finally came up.
If your drives are in good shape, you should be able to just run the Automated Repair and it will fix why Windows won't boot - Most of the time - But when there are deeper errors on the Disk, Windows 8 is not set up to check those, and if it can't mount the Windows 8 Volume, you'll simply get a Black or Blue screen of Death with only a mouse and nothing else. It's because the Boot Volume is not mounted, and the Automated Repair can't get to the tools it needs to finish the repair.
My next step is to move the entire volume to a new drive, which is easy to do for Windows 7 but I don't know how Windows 8 will take a change of hardware, it may want to be re-activated, but I've reactivated 3 times on this system, that's no problem.
I just want to ask - Is there any way to set up the Automatic Repair to give you more then 1 second to bypass a drive scan? By the time the start screen informs you that you have one second to escape out of it, it's too late to escape out of it.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro with Media Center/Windows 7
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
- CPU
- AMD 4400+/4200+
- Motherboard
- Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
- Memory
- 2 GB/3GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
- Sound Card
- nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
- Screen Resolution
- "1842 x 1036"
- Hard Drives
- WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
WD My Book 1140 USB Device
- PSU
- Works 550w
- Case
- MSI "M-Box"
- Cooling
- Water Cooled
- Keyboard
- Dell Keyboard
- Mouse
- Microsoft Intellimouse
- Internet Speed
- Cable Medium Speed
- Browser
- Chrome/IE 10
- Antivirus
- Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
- Other Info
- Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.