My laptop was idling next to me while I was gaming on my pc. I went to it to look something up on it and suddenly couldn't click on anything. Then windows Explorer just stopped. Background disappeared, task bar gone, start button gone too. With no other options, I force shut down the system.
Upon restarting, I got a message that windows couldn't run properly and needed to restart. Then the restarting diagnosis failed and I was given the option to restart or do something else. From there I tried restoring to a back up point from 10 days ago but it said some windows files were corrupted. I hit the option to check the corrupted files and it sat on that loading bar for about 6 hours before the battery finally died. It was almost done too. But I don't feel like waiting 6 hours again.
I guess now my only option is to re-install windows from a flash drive. But how do I mount the drive and actually get to the point of reinstalling windows when I can't even boot the system? I can go to the Advanced Options and choose "Recover from Removable Drive" but then the system just freezes, restarts, and I'm back to where I started.
Upon restarting, I got a message that windows couldn't run properly and needed to restart. Then the restarting diagnosis failed and I was given the option to restart or do something else. From there I tried restoring to a back up point from 10 days ago but it said some windows files were corrupted. I hit the option to check the corrupted files and it sat on that loading bar for about 6 hours before the battery finally died. It was almost done too. But I don't feel like waiting 6 hours again.
I guess now my only option is to re-install windows from a flash drive. But how do I mount the drive and actually get to the point of reinstalling windows when I can't even boot the system? I can go to the Advanced Options and choose "Recover from Removable Drive" but then the system just freezes, restarts, and I'm back to where I started.