Oh joy... windows is borked

AHarvey

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Just a venting post really.

My PC is normally on 24/7, win 10, average spec but I've turned it off each evening this week due to the heat.

First day off and decided to get a couple of hours in gaming.

Boot it up and get an 0xc000000f error code.

Choose different options for safe mode, cmd line, etc and just get a 0xc000007b error

Checked all the cables, unplugged everything but the main ssd, tried it on new cables etc. nothing.


So now, my birthday eve gaming session is going to be spent spending hours fixing this instead :(

Making a USB install now, going to see if I can fix it otherwise it'll be setting win 10 on a new hdd, backing up what I can from the SSD if it still works and then formatting it and reinstalling on there, and copying everything back.
 
Do a heath check om your SSD once you get it back up and running. Is it a DRAMless SSD and does it support power loss protection in the event of a poor/dirty shutdown?
 
I guess you are talking desktop, so less preventative maintenance, versus laptops, of cleaning out the cooling ducting and fans -

with the recent high temps , it would have been interesting to monitor mb temepratures.

I'd like a solution for identifying web-sites that cause excess cpu use, neither chrome nor firefox can really help nail sites burning watts, if, you have multiple tabs open.
- should be a green certification for web-sites
 
Desktop has 3 drives that area always in use:

250gb Crucial M500 SSD - used for games
480gb Kingston A400 480GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive - (SA400S37/480G) - was the windows drive, apps and a couple of games.
Seagate 6TB BarraCuda 5400RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST6000DM003) - used for holding photo backups and movies/music/ebooks etc

The 250gb was my old C: before updating to the Kingston SSD which is the one that wouldn't boot on only holds games now.

Tried copying the games to the 6tb drive but it would just slow to a crawl and appear not to do anything so copied the games over to the kingston without issue at all and didn't take long.
Formatted the 250gb and reinstalled win 10.

Now, trying to copy the 480gb completely over to the 6tb drive so I can format it. Again, it just crawls to a complete stop.

Absolute pain in the backside.

EDIT:

Just used the kingston SSD tool and it's all healthy, wear indicator = 3
 
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random_matt said:
LTSC should be the only one people should use personally.
Click to expand...

LTSC(B) is Enterprise only and no, that is not the recommended approach to using Windows 10 Enterprise. It's currently based on 1809 and there are huge feature changes that have happened to Win10 since 1809. As a minimum, you should be on the H2 release cycle of Win10 for Home/Pro/Ent, currently 1909.
 
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