Any PC Win 10 guru who could call me? I can send you my number
I have a Asus PC running Win 10 that is repeating a disc repair on start up...over and over
Tried to roll back to a restore point but it does not recognize one and it’s back to disc repair
Tried to go back to Win 7 it was updated from but that goes back to disc repair
Tried to reset while keeping files. Would not complete that and then back to disc repair
@AndersonArtwork
Disc repair or "startup repair"?
Is it giving you any kind of error message?
What was the last thing you were doing before this happened?
@AndersonArtwork
Hmm. I was thinking you just had a corrupt bootloader / MBR, but it's possible something else is up.
While you're downloading things, grab a copy of this, which has some things that could help.
https://paul.is-a-geek.org/aio-srt/
Top priority it's to get your valuable data off that drive ASAP.
You could also grab one of the Linux distros that have a Live CD / USB version, boot from that, mount your main drive, and dump the files you need to other external storage.
It did something like this before. That time it let me reset but save my files. Pain in the ass but not disastrous
I’m sure we can get a shop to pull the drive and download it but I sure would rather get it salvaged here rather than there
Some of the images are not supposed to be accessed except after editing and approved by the model.
Underwater has quite a few “less discrete” shots where things pop out
Some of the models don’t publish that much exposure
@AndersonArtwork @jordicusmaximus @AlphaCentauri
Were you able to boot from the Win10 USB drive and do System Repair?
No one says you need to view the files; just grab all of your images and dump them to an external drive.
That repair disc I linked you to is one way you can do that. Do you have an external hard drive or big enough flash drive for this? Being a pro photographer I'm sure you have a lot of very large image files.
@voltronic @jordicusmaximus @AlphaCentauri
I had a big shoot today and I’m forced to use my slow old one to get the files copied onto my archive drives.
Once that is done, I’m headed to Microsoft to get a Win 10 on a USB
This old one is SLOW but it’s still operating properly
It should be about 1/2 hour and I will be downloading the Win 10 usb
@voltronic @jordicusmaximus @AlphaCentauri
Downloading the file onto a freshly formatted 128 GB SD card I can directly plug into the broken ASUS laptop
I stoped with the ASUS at the point where it has tried and failed at the auto repair, offers options to try
@voltronic @jordicusmaximus @AlphaCentauri
There seems to be no way to have the broken one use the Win 10 file on the SD
I’m burning a Win 10 ISO onto a DVD to see if a cold start on the broken one will access the Win 10 on DVD before it looks at any other option.
It’s a 2012 machine so looking at D: drive before C: drive is likely
Unless you guys think of something else. Virtually nothing in those articles seems to possible at this point but all of them mention DVD start ups
@voltronic @jordicusmaximus @AlphaCentauri
What would the command prompt line read to tell a brand new hard drive to read and install a Win 10 ISO from either a DVD or a SD memory card?
We put in a brand new 1T drive and went from 4 GB RAM to 8 GB of RAM
We can seem to get it to go read the ISO off of the media even though we can get it to show us the files on the media
It keeps asking us to check the RJ45 cable connection
@voltronic @jordicusmaximus @AlphaCentauri
Can’t seem to get it to read off and run the setup.exe on the media even though we can get it to see the files and show us the objects in the roster
@AndersonArtwork
Ok, clearly the install media did not get created correctly. It sounds like you extracted the ISO and just copied those files to the disc.
Did you use the Windows Media Creation Tool to make bootable media?
@voltronic @AndersonArtwork @AlphaCentauri you can also download and use a tool called 'Rufus' to create a bootable usb from the iso file.
@jordicusmaximus @AndersonArtwork @AlphaCentauri
Yup, good rec by Jordy. I also like IMG Burn and Etcher.
@AndersonArtwork
Didn't you say you had an IT pro friend coming over to help? I know we're trying to help you remotely, but I wonder if they can help you make the install media and boot from it?
I'm just saying you might need some hands-on help, and if your friend is in IT, they should know how to do all of this.