Tonytn36
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2007
- Location
- Southeastern US
So, Windows10 does it's updates on my home PC Thursday night at 2 AM.
Friday morning I get up and go to read the news and .......
Nothing.. the clock screen is there just like normal when it reboots, but when I go to log in there is no password box to put the password in....
Try several things..nothing, so I reboot...
Message appears from the Bios:
"Please install a bootable device and press any key."
I'm like followed by which turns to .
After the panic dies down....... I reboot again just for shitsngiggles....
Windows attempts to boot, but locks up during boot. So I reset it again and the windows repair utility comes up.
So, I be like I'll just go back to the restore point prior to the update and I'll be good.
Click the option, select the restore point...and it starts and I'm all relieved..
And then Windows does a . It hangs at 7%. I'm worried about rebooting it in the middle of a rollback and I have a Dr's appt anyway, so I just leave it. Hoping it will unhang and finish.
I'm gone about 4 hours. Still at 7% when I get back.
I didn't have anywhere near a recent backup of the drive. ( 4 year old WD 2TB Blue, 7500 RPM, 256 mb cache) and I can't find my W7 disk .
So it acts like there is something wrong with the drive. I download a live version of Fedora so I can check the smart data of the drive. Sure enough, 14k+ bad sectors and 1.5mio write errors and a bunch of positioning errors, so the drive is failing. I figure windows wrote the update files to a bad sector, which hosed it.
Ordered a new 500GB SSD and a new W10 disk and loaded Ubuntu on a spare drive until the stuff got here. (BTW, I really like Ubuntu after using it for a few days it's a lot more polished than Fedora.)
Now I've spent the last 14 hours installing the drive and windows and trying to salvage important stuff off the drive that is failing. I've got most of it saved and am now re-installing all of my software... hoping the other drive stays alive long enough for me to get any missing licenses I have forgot about off of it.
I've installed Marcrium Reflect (free) which is a backup/cloning software and ordered another 2TB external drive that I will set up for scheduled drive image backups with the Marcrium software. I'll do a direct clone to begin with.
It will take me days to get everything back to snuff on this PC.
I highly recommend purchasing an external hard drive and backing up your PC. They are relatively inexpensive. Have them scheduled so you don't forget!.
So I'm out about $250 just to fix it and then another $80 for a back-up drive.
Anyway..... just a warning and now I'm going back to attempting to copy over files and loading software.
Friday morning I get up and go to read the news and .......
Nothing.. the clock screen is there just like normal when it reboots, but when I go to log in there is no password box to put the password in....
Try several things..nothing, so I reboot...
Message appears from the Bios:
"Please install a bootable device and press any key."
I'm like followed by which turns to .
After the panic dies down....... I reboot again just for shitsngiggles....
Windows attempts to boot, but locks up during boot. So I reset it again and the windows repair utility comes up.
So, I be like I'll just go back to the restore point prior to the update and I'll be good.
Click the option, select the restore point...and it starts and I'm all relieved..
And then Windows does a . It hangs at 7%. I'm worried about rebooting it in the middle of a rollback and I have a Dr's appt anyway, so I just leave it. Hoping it will unhang and finish.
I'm gone about 4 hours. Still at 7% when I get back.
I didn't have anywhere near a recent backup of the drive. ( 4 year old WD 2TB Blue, 7500 RPM, 256 mb cache) and I can't find my W7 disk .
So it acts like there is something wrong with the drive. I download a live version of Fedora so I can check the smart data of the drive. Sure enough, 14k+ bad sectors and 1.5mio write errors and a bunch of positioning errors, so the drive is failing. I figure windows wrote the update files to a bad sector, which hosed it.
Ordered a new 500GB SSD and a new W10 disk and loaded Ubuntu on a spare drive until the stuff got here. (BTW, I really like Ubuntu after using it for a few days it's a lot more polished than Fedora.)
Now I've spent the last 14 hours installing the drive and windows and trying to salvage important stuff off the drive that is failing. I've got most of it saved and am now re-installing all of my software... hoping the other drive stays alive long enough for me to get any missing licenses I have forgot about off of it.
I've installed Marcrium Reflect (free) which is a backup/cloning software and ordered another 2TB external drive that I will set up for scheduled drive image backups with the Marcrium software. I'll do a direct clone to begin with.
It will take me days to get everything back to snuff on this PC.
I highly recommend purchasing an external hard drive and backing up your PC. They are relatively inexpensive. Have them scheduled so you don't forget!.
So I'm out about $250 just to fix it and then another $80 for a back-up drive.
Anyway..... just a warning and now I'm going back to attempting to copy over files and loading software.