- Nov 19, 2020
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Short story.
I went into startup and recovery, and under startup, I changed which windows 10 was selected; I have four in the drop-down menu for some reason, and now it is stuck in a boot loop. It will post past bios and start to boot windows for half a second then it restarts.
Long story.
A long time ago, at a place not too far from where I am now, I had a hard drive that was encrypted with veracrypt.
One day veracypt tried to commit suicide and take my hard drive with it. I managed to save the hard drive and uninstalled veracrypt however, it left the veracrypt bootloader behind.
As it left behind the bootloader, windows could not update properly, so I had to disable auto-updates altogether.
It has been a few years, and some friends wanted to play Minecraft together, so I thought why not. I went to install MC windows 10 edition but it would not let me as my version was not up to date. So I tried again to get windows to update but to no avail. It would get to 70 percent restart, show the bootloader, go past the loader and flash the blue windows update screen, then reboot. It would come back up saying that it reverted to the previous version.
I then tried to find a way to remove the bootloader but only found stuff for UEFI system installs, mine is bios.
It was getting late, and I should have gone to bed as I was exhausted from the day. But I didn't. Instead, I made my way into the startup and recovery options and clicked the drop-down that is under startup. It showed four windows 10 in the list, and I clicked one of them, thinking, "I'll try this one, and if it does not work, I'll just change it".
Well, as you might have guessed, it doesn't work. It got stuck in a boot loop, and I hope that someone here might be able to help me fix my mistake.
I did a system restore point the day before I did this, but I can not get to it to use it.
Thank you for your assistance.
I went into startup and recovery, and under startup, I changed which windows 10 was selected; I have four in the drop-down menu for some reason, and now it is stuck in a boot loop. It will post past bios and start to boot windows for half a second then it restarts.
Long story.
A long time ago, at a place not too far from where I am now, I had a hard drive that was encrypted with veracrypt.
One day veracypt tried to commit suicide and take my hard drive with it. I managed to save the hard drive and uninstalled veracrypt however, it left the veracrypt bootloader behind.
As it left behind the bootloader, windows could not update properly, so I had to disable auto-updates altogether.
It has been a few years, and some friends wanted to play Minecraft together, so I thought why not. I went to install MC windows 10 edition but it would not let me as my version was not up to date. So I tried again to get windows to update but to no avail. It would get to 70 percent restart, show the bootloader, go past the loader and flash the blue windows update screen, then reboot. It would come back up saying that it reverted to the previous version.
I then tried to find a way to remove the bootloader but only found stuff for UEFI system installs, mine is bios.
It was getting late, and I should have gone to bed as I was exhausted from the day. But I didn't. Instead, I made my way into the startup and recovery options and clicked the drop-down that is under startup. It showed four windows 10 in the list, and I clicked one of them, thinking, "I'll try this one, and if it does not work, I'll just change it".
Well, as you might have guessed, it doesn't work. It got stuck in a boot loop, and I hope that someone here might be able to help me fix my mistake.
I did a system restore point the day before I did this, but I can not get to it to use it.
Thank you for your assistance.
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