I have been having problems with my windows 10 pc for months now. It infrequently crashes, mostly while playing games fullscreen. Its sometimes days between crashes then they happen frequently.
I can't even remember all the things I've tried to fix it, but I'm pretty sure its an issue with my GPU driver conflicting with windows.
I wiped my GPU drivers with DDU, then reinstalled from the manufacturer's recommendation. It didn't work.
I then went to try and update windows to find that windows update is broken. From there I tried to manually updaye from the windows site, that failed to update also.
I tried literally every option in the advanced repair menu you get after the restart, there were no restore points/images and every repair option failed and reverted.
I tried downloading windows 10 and reinstalling, it also failed and reverted.
I have twice used an external hard drive to make a windows recovery usb bootable, I tested it on a working pc and it works fine.
Bothe times on my pc it fails to boot and goes to a black screen saying "invalid partition table".
While fiddling with partition settings I marked the wrong drive on my internal hard drive as active and now it won't boot either.
The fix for marking the wrong drive active appears to require booting up an external drive so apparently while trying to fix my problem I have shut out all access to my pc.
I've read various help posts on several sites but most of the time its this error for s main drive, not an external recovery drive.
I don't know all the specs from memory but its got 8 gb of ram in 4 sticks, ati radeon 5000 series graphics card and an asus motherboard if thats any help. Its a pretty old pc but i recently got a samsung SSD and I've replaced the PSU a couple times over the years.
Leaving aside the crashes for now I'd really just like to get windows updated and functioning properly. Why can't my computer boot windows recovery usb?
edit I just saw someone make the recovery drive like I did and then list an alternate way with "rufus" and the windows 10 iso. I will probably try that tomorrow if nobody posts a better idea.
I can't even remember all the things I've tried to fix it, but I'm pretty sure its an issue with my GPU driver conflicting with windows.
I wiped my GPU drivers with DDU, then reinstalled from the manufacturer's recommendation. It didn't work.
I then went to try and update windows to find that windows update is broken. From there I tried to manually updaye from the windows site, that failed to update also.
I tried literally every option in the advanced repair menu you get after the restart, there were no restore points/images and every repair option failed and reverted.
I tried downloading windows 10 and reinstalling, it also failed and reverted.
I have twice used an external hard drive to make a windows recovery usb bootable, I tested it on a working pc and it works fine.
Bothe times on my pc it fails to boot and goes to a black screen saying "invalid partition table".
While fiddling with partition settings I marked the wrong drive on my internal hard drive as active and now it won't boot either.
The fix for marking the wrong drive active appears to require booting up an external drive so apparently while trying to fix my problem I have shut out all access to my pc.
I've read various help posts on several sites but most of the time its this error for s main drive, not an external recovery drive.
I don't know all the specs from memory but its got 8 gb of ram in 4 sticks, ati radeon 5000 series graphics card and an asus motherboard if thats any help. Its a pretty old pc but i recently got a samsung SSD and I've replaced the PSU a couple times over the years.
Leaving aside the crashes for now I'd really just like to get windows updated and functioning properly. Why can't my computer boot windows recovery usb?
edit I just saw someone make the recovery drive like I did and then list an alternate way with "rufus" and the windows 10 iso. I will probably try that tomorrow if nobody posts a better idea.
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