PC Bricked After Update

[Karl F]

Hello!

My PC appears to be byeond saving and 6+ hours of google searching has left me with no answers what so ever. I'm desperate at this point and it certainly looks bleak for my PC.

My PC has been working fine for 5 years without a single issue and now suddenly this happened.
Nvidia was updating the graphics driver but it stopped at 100% and the window wouldn't close down. I thought nothing more of it and watched Netflix until I fell asleep. When I woke up the mouse was invisible. I could move it and click on things but it was invisible and the sensitivity was inconsistent.

I then clicked Update and Restart (I had been postponing a windows force update for 2 weeks) hoping a restart would solve it. The update went as you would expect until the end. It went from saying "we are setting things up" to "this is taking longer than expected" When the text had remained for 5 hours I forcefully shut the macine down even though the text expressly stated "do not turn your machine off" (Yeah I know I'm retarded).

When I started it, it said something about disk repair and it had trouble booting. It booted 7 times before it finally loaded a gray version of windows. I can't do anything except for ctrl alt delete but ctrl alt delete works fine and I can see my login screen

I grabbed my trusted iso usb and attempted to repair the machine- nothing, I attempted a startup repair, it said it was not able to repair the system.

I have no idea what to do at this point, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Colif]

is there anything on C drive you want to rescue? try making this on another PC: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/
Also, on another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

if you have multiple hdd, copy anything off C you don't want to lose onto other drives or USB if need be.

I expect PC is fine, windows isn't. 5 years without a fresh install is pretty good, normally I found something would stop working in that time.

Hopefully its just windows that died, we can replace it...

change boot order in BIOS so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach the screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and reactivate once finished

On the screen where you choose where to install win 10, if it gives you an error about GPT drives, delete all the partitions on the hdd and press next. If it still gives error, cancel out of the installer and restart PC and start installer again, it will accept next on that screen this time (some PC just need a restart here)

PC might even feel faster, they often do after a clean install.