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I have a Samsung Series 9 Laptop (NP900X4C-A01US to be specific). It came preinstalled with Windows 7, which I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro several months ago. About 2 months ago, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a second partition I created and the two OSes worked just fine until yesterday.
The last time I booted up Windows 8 it started installing updates, but I was in a hurry so I closed the lid of the laptop, unplugged it and stuck it in my backpack. It had plenty of battery power, so I assumed it would just finish installing the updates and shut down on its own. But when I next tried to boot it up, it got to the Windows loading screen (after I selected Windows 8 at the Linux boot selector) and then gave me a blue screen saying "Your PC needs to be repaired" along with "File: CLFS.SYS" and "Error Code: 0xc00000e9". It gives me the option to try again (same error), or to Press F8 for startup options which give me a whole list for debugging, the 3 safe mode options, and more...all of which give the same error. I've googled all over the internet trying to find a solution but everything pretty much tells me to try to repair it with the Windows disc or just reformat the drive and reinstall...which brings me to the other issue...
I can't seem to get any OS installed. First I tried to reinstall windows using a bootable USB drive (my laptop doesn't have a disc drive). I downloaded the Win8 install files from the official site and tried letting the program create the USB drive for me, as well as letting it create a .iso and then manually extracting and copying the files onto the drive. I also tried doing this on multiple drives in case it was the USB drive itself that was faulty. Every time it would show the Windows 8 loading logo and animation and then it would go to a black screen and stay there.
Before I tried reinstalling Windows, I also tried booting into the Ubuntu partition. But when I tried this it gave me "error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'." So then I tried a bootable Linux drive. I tried installing Ubuntu, and I tried just booting into Ubuntu from the drive. In both cases I got the same error before it would reboot automatically. It was several dozen lines of output that I couldn't copy down completely before it rebooted but I was able to spot a line that said something about a kernel panic.
I've tried everything I can think of, including restoring the BIOS to defaults, would really like to avoid actually sending in the laptop for repair. It boggles my mind that I can't do something as simple as install an OS. Hope you guys can help.
The last time I booted up Windows 8 it started installing updates, but I was in a hurry so I closed the lid of the laptop, unplugged it and stuck it in my backpack. It had plenty of battery power, so I assumed it would just finish installing the updates and shut down on its own. But when I next tried to boot it up, it got to the Windows loading screen (after I selected Windows 8 at the Linux boot selector) and then gave me a blue screen saying "Your PC needs to be repaired" along with "File: CLFS.SYS" and "Error Code: 0xc00000e9". It gives me the option to try again (same error), or to Press F8 for startup options which give me a whole list for debugging, the 3 safe mode options, and more...all of which give the same error. I've googled all over the internet trying to find a solution but everything pretty much tells me to try to repair it with the Windows disc or just reformat the drive and reinstall...which brings me to the other issue...
I can't seem to get any OS installed. First I tried to reinstall windows using a bootable USB drive (my laptop doesn't have a disc drive). I downloaded the Win8 install files from the official site and tried letting the program create the USB drive for me, as well as letting it create a .iso and then manually extracting and copying the files onto the drive. I also tried doing this on multiple drives in case it was the USB drive itself that was faulty. Every time it would show the Windows 8 loading logo and animation and then it would go to a black screen and stay there.
Before I tried reinstalling Windows, I also tried booting into the Ubuntu partition. But when I tried this it gave me "error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'." So then I tried a bootable Linux drive. I tried installing Ubuntu, and I tried just booting into Ubuntu from the drive. In both cases I got the same error before it would reboot automatically. It was several dozen lines of output that I couldn't copy down completely before it rebooted but I was able to spot a line that said something about a kernel panic.
I've tried everything I can think of, including restoring the BIOS to defaults, would really like to avoid actually sending in the laptop for repair. It boggles my mind that I can't do something as simple as install an OS. Hope you guys can help.
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