Able to load to bios, then: "Inaccessible Boot Device"

[thetylero]

After many hours of fiddling with the system to get it to show a video feed, i have finally been able to load into bios. Now, the system will not load into Windows.

 

[wpgwpg]

Does the BIOS see the drive? If not, there's no way for Windows to see it. I'd check the cables.

Good luck.

 

[thetylero]

Does the BIOS see the drive? If not, there's no way for Windows to see it. I'd check the cables.

Good luck.

Yup. The drive is named and set as the first boot device.

 

[Colif]

on another pc, download this and create a bootable win 10 USB or DVD: Win 10 Media creation tool

change boot order so that usb or dvd first, HDD second
boot into installer, on screen after language choices, select repair this pc, not install
follow these steps:

1. At the blue screen, click Advanced Options
2. Click Troubleshoot
3. Look for a Startup button, I forget its proper name
4. A list of boot options is displayed
5. Click Restart
6. Upon restarting you'll be taken to the boot options you previously saw in #4
7. Boot into Safe Mode only
8. Once you're back into your desktop through Safe Mode, Reboot your PC and everything should be back to normal
TLDR: Boot into Safe Mode, then Restart your PC

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2760985/inaccessible-boot-device-reset.html

Steps 1 & 2 are in reverse order, it should be troubleshoot, advanced, but rest is right

see if that helps.

 

[thetylero]

on another pc, download this and create a bootable win 10 USB or DVD: Win 10 Media creation tool

change boot order so that usb or dvd first, HDD second
boot into installer, on screen after language choices, select repair this pc, not install
follow these steps:

1. At the blue screen, click Advanced Options
2. Click Troubleshoot
3. Look for a Startup button, I forget its proper name
4. A list of boot options is displayed
5. Click Restart
6. Upon restarting you'll be taken to the boot options you previously saw in #4
7. Boot into Safe Mode only
8. Once you're back into your desktop through Safe Mode, Reboot your PC and everything should be back to normal
TLDR: Boot into Safe Mode, then Restart your PC

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2760985/inaccessible-boot-device-reset.html

Steps 1 & 2 are in reverse order, it should be troubleshoot, advanced, but rest is right

see if that helps.

I already did this with my Win8 ISO. Booted, Repair this PC and it was unable to solve it and told me to just restart once again.

 

[Colif]

The win 10 iso at least matches your operating system, may need it for further repairs. does the win 8 iso load the blue menu?

 

[thetylero]

The win 10 iso at least matches your operating system, may need it for further repairs. does the win 8 iso load the blue menu?

Worst comes to worst, i can get to W10iso. And yes, the W8iso loads up and i can get to the blue screen.

 

[Colif]

better than nothing,

how about try troubleshoot/advanced/start up repair

also try troubleshoot/advanced/command prompt and type Chkdsk /f /r (spacing is needed)

The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bug check frequently occurs because of a boot device failure. During I/O system initialization, the boot device driver might have failed to initialize the boot device (typically a hard disk). File system initialization might have failed because it did not recognize the data on the boot device. Also, repartitioning the system partition or installing a new SCSI adapter or disk controller might induce this error.
This error can also occur because of incompatible disk hardware. If the error occurred at the initial setup of the system, the system might have been installed on an unsupported disk or SCSI controller. Some controllers are supported only by drivers that are in the Windows Driver Library (WDL). (These drivers require the user to do a custom installation.)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff559218%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

http://appuals.com/best-fix-steps-to-fix-inaccessible_boot_device/

 

[thetylero]

better than nothing,

how about try troubleshoot/advanced/start up repair

also try troubleshoot/advanced/command prompt and type Chkdsk /f /r (spacing is needed)

The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bug check frequently occurs because of a boot device failure. During I/O system initialization, the boot device driver might have failed to initialize the boot device (typically a hard disk). File system initialization might have failed because it did not recognize the data on the boot device. Also, repartitioning the system partition or installing a new SCSI adapter or disk controller might induce this error.
This error can also occur because of incompatible disk hardware. If the error occurred at the initial setup of the system, the system might have been installed on an unsupported disk or SCSI controller. Some controllers are supported only by drivers that are in the Windows Driver Library (WDL). (These drivers require the user to do a custom installation.)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff559218%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

http://appuals.com/best-fix-steps-to-fix-inaccessible_boot_device/

"The type of file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
WIndows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected."

update: i've been working on my system for 5 hours now. I've had enough for today, and i appreciate your help. Will try again tomorrow.

 

[Colif]

Sure, i am helping you, i don't expect you to be here

Sorry I couldn't give you an easy answer, I wish there was one besides do a fresh install as that does fix it.. painful though.

you can try doing a reset of win 10, that is on the page next to troubleshoot.

why did you mention locking drive? or is that an error from windows as sometimes it locks the drives itself: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-drive-where-windows-is-installed-is-locked

 

[thetylero]

Sure, i am helping you, i don't expect you to be here

Sorry I couldn't give you an easy answer, I wish there was one besides do a fresh install as that does fix it.. painful though.

you can try doing a reset of win 10, that is on the page next to troubleshoot.

why did you mention locking drive? or is that an error from windows as sometimes it locks the drives itself: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-drive-where-windows-is-installed-is-locked

I would like to avoid a reinstall.
I quoted the error that was given to me in command prompt after I entered the "chkdsk /f /r"

 

[Colif]

okay. we will try to avoid a reinstall. I always try to anyway

Talk tomorrow

 

[thetylero]

okay. we will try to avoid a reinstall. I always try to anyway

Talk tomorrow

Sounds good

 

[thetylero]

okay. we will try to avoid a reinstall. I always try to anyway

Talk tomorrow

Alright, i'm here again. Have the system back up and taking another crack at it.

 

[wpgwpg]

I just did a Google search on "write protected hdd" and came up with a PC World magazine article with a pretty simple fix. Here's the link:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/245174/restore_access_to_a_write_protected_hard_drive.html .

I'm curious to know how a hard drive becomes write protected because I've never seen this happen. My guess is that maybe Windows sets it that way when it's doing certain updates and the computer is somehow shut down before it completes. Anybody have any insight?

Good luck.

 

[thetylero]

I just did a Google search on "write protected hdd" and came up with a PC World magazine article with a pretty simple fix. Here's the link:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/245174/restore_access_to_a_write_protected_hard_drive.html .

I'm curious to know how a hard drive becomes write protected because I've never seen this happen. My guess is that maybe Windows sets it that way when it's doing certain updates and the computer is somehow shut down before it completes. Anybody have any insight?

Good luck.

Not sure if this is a factor in all of this, but the OS drive is an SSD. I will read the article and update again.

 

[wpgwpg]

Even though SSDs are a totally different technology from HDDs, from a Windows software point of view, they work exactly the same, just a whole lot faster.

Good luck.

 

[thetylero]

Even though SSDs are a totally different technology from HDDs, from a Windows software point of view, they work exactly the same, just a whole lot faster.

Good luck.

Alright, good to know. I am unable to get it to display once again, and i'm really not sure what to do.

 

[wpgwpg]

Well are you ready for a "hammer and tongs" solution? Since you have an SSD and a HDD, what I'd do would be to make a new partition on the HDD (maybe 50 GB) and install Windows 10 in that. It doesn't have to be anything more than the minimum install, just something to get you up and running. Then you'd be able to apply the solution in the article without having to lose anything on the SSD. I'd think you could do that in under 2 hours; it seems like the minimal install to a HDD took me about an hour the last time I did it.

Good luck.

 

[thetylero]

Well are you ready for a "hammer and tongs" solution? Since you have an SSD and a HDD, what I'd do would be to make a new partition on the HDD (maybe 50 GB) and install Windows 10 in that. It doesn't have to be anything more than the minimum install, just something to get you up and running. Then you'd be able to apply the solution in the article without having to lose anything on the SSD. I'd think you could do that in under 2 hours; it seems like the minimal install to a HDD took me about an hour the last time I did it.

Good luck.

I will take this step as soon as i can, but, for the time being, i can't get it to give a display signal.

 

[wpgwpg]

Have you tried booting from an install disc? To make the new partition you could boot from a Linux DVD. It has a user interface similar to Windows so you don't have to know anything about Linux to use it. You can download the ISO from here: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php .

 

[thetylero]

Have you tried booting from an install disc? To make the new partition you could boot from a Linux DVD. It has a user interface similar to Windows so you don't have to know anything about Linux to use it. You can download the ISO from here: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php .

I can't even load into bios at this point. No display whatsoever, no matter the configuration. I removed all the drives, removed the GPUs, disconnected fans, everything. Will not display.


update: taking a lunch break.

 

[thetylero]

Have you tried booting from an install disc? To make the new partition you could boot from a Linux DVD. It has a user interface similar to Windows so you don't have to know anything about Linux to use it. You can download the ISO from here: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php .

Alright, i'm back now. It came up and displayed one time and then locked up on me.

 

[wpgwpg]

It sounds like you've got hardware problems you need to fix before you're going to get much else done.

Good luck.

 

[thetylero]

It sounds like you've got hardware problems you need to fix before you're going to get much else done.

Good luck.

Well, the PSU i ordered will be here to tomorrow and we will go from there.