Windows 10 Boot Loop, 3rd time after full reinstall and a patch.

[pyrowipe]

This is not my main system, but it's still annoying. Full clean install of evaluation build 10074 on this system:

Intel i7 Gen 1
EVGA MB
6x 2GB sticks of ram
Titan X nvidia Card
2x 250GB SSD in Raid 0

After the patch, which I can postpone, but not avoid, I get windows is repairing after update message followed by a reboot.

I have tried the following repair options:

system recovery, no image found... though I did attempt to create a restore point.
Windows Rollback
Refresh PC
startup repair
System Reset
..and whatever other options are on the install disk for repair. I have even installed and that didn't work. The only thing that seems to work is a full reformat of the drives. This happens only after a windows update.

Anyone have any ideas what's causing this? While I would like to see how the new features work, Its not worth having to reformat everything and reinstall on my SSDs over and over. I also use this PC for when guests come over. Please don't just suggest a VM. Yes I know I could try the features, but I would like to solve this problem, not circumnavigate it.

This has happened to me 3 times. Each time after a full clean install, and each time after a windows patch.

Thanks!

 

[i7Baby]

Is that your complete build? Any more drives that might've ended up with Windows on them?

 

[pyrowipe]

So, there are other drives:

one 1TB drive without windows
one 2TB drive wihtout windows
one 1256GB SDD that had windows, but has nothing on it, not even a format.

Confirmed, seems to happen when I got from 10074 to 10130 (or whatever the next one is).
Any thoughts?

 

[i7Baby]

Disconnect them all and see what happens. Check your ssd raid drive is first in boot priority in bios.

 

[pyrowipe]

Disconnect them all and see what happens. Check your ssd raid drive is first in boot priority in bios.

Will do... I'll let you know how it goes! Thanks!

 

[pyrowipe]

Disconnect them all and see what happens. Check your ssd raid drive is first in boot priority in bios.

I disconnected all drives but the 2x 250 SSDs running raid 0 from intel raid controller....

attempted repairs, no dice.

deleted partitions, reformatted, and reinstalled windows... updated and boot loop again. 🙁

I'm currently downloading the 10130 iso. Im hoping I can install this and skip the update to 10130 all together, but Im still curious as to what the heck is going on?

 

[i7Baby]

Maybe its a windows 10 problem. Its only a trial version. Can you try another OS?

 

[pyrowipe]

Maybe its a windows 10 problem. Its only a trial version. Can you try another OS?

Yeah, runs and updates fine with Win 7... just installed that and working fine. It seems to only have a problem on win10 with that 10130 patch. I haven't yet tried to install that build. I'm just tired of dealing with it for now.

FYI, for others that might come here... I've read recently but not tried:

"I went into Bios changed Boot mode from (quick) to (Diagnostics) then disabled (Core Multi-processing) and also disabled (Intel Hyper-Threading Technology) This is what worked for me "

"Enable xd bit in bios fixes bootloop!"

"One site suggests setting BIOS Non-Execute Memory Protection to ENABLE (claim it works)"

 

[i7Baby]

Maybe join me waiting. I've got W7 64bit and are happy to wait till early next year to look at using W10. Maybe by then I'll stop hearing stories of problems.

 

[Willian Costa]

I just enabled XD bit on BIOS and now i can boot the newer versions of W10 Technical preview. Thanks OP for saving my time.

 

[The_Prophecy]

If anyone reading this is still having this issue, try updating to build 10162: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

 

[Mr Hungry Man]

I had the same problem , what I did was taking my connecting my hardisk to another pc and formatting it and then connect it back and then it worked like a charm.