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So I did a hard shutdown of my PC last night by holding down the power button rather than doing it the proper way from within windows (not the smartest thing I know) and this morning my PC won’t boot into Windows anymore.
The MSI logo appears briefly when powering on but then it loads to a black screen where only the mouse cursor is visible and stays on that screen forever.
I tried to get it to go into recovery mode by doing a hard restart three times in a row and the windows loading circle appeared briefly beneath the MSI logo as if it was going to load into recovery mode but again it just loaded back into the black screen with a mouse cursor visible.
So then I got my windows 11 USB drive and used that to boot into recovery mode, this worked and I went to the troubleshoot section and chose “start up repair” and then let it try and do its thing. Unfortunately it came back with a message saying “start up couldn’t repair your PC”.
So now I’m stuck.
I should mention this exact same problem occurred about six months ago when I had a power cut. I never found a solution (didn’t bother asking online though) and resorted to reinstalling windows.
I really don’t want to do that again. I don’t understand how a PC shutting down abruptly manages to tank an entire windows install every single time it occurs ?
I never used to have this on any of my older computers going back decades. It’s only on this new(ish) computer of mine where holding down power button to power off seems to tank a windows install 100% of the time.
Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this ? Perhaps some command prompt shenanigans or similar ?
It’s driving me insane and makes me constantly paranoid my windows install is going to die should there be a power cut etc
The MSI logo appears briefly when powering on but then it loads to a black screen where only the mouse cursor is visible and stays on that screen forever.
I tried to get it to go into recovery mode by doing a hard restart three times in a row and the windows loading circle appeared briefly beneath the MSI logo as if it was going to load into recovery mode but again it just loaded back into the black screen with a mouse cursor visible.
So then I got my windows 11 USB drive and used that to boot into recovery mode, this worked and I went to the troubleshoot section and chose “start up repair” and then let it try and do its thing. Unfortunately it came back with a message saying “start up couldn’t repair your PC”.
So now I’m stuck.
I should mention this exact same problem occurred about six months ago when I had a power cut. I never found a solution (didn’t bother asking online though) and resorted to reinstalling windows.
I really don’t want to do that again. I don’t understand how a PC shutting down abruptly manages to tank an entire windows install every single time it occurs ?
I never used to have this on any of my older computers going back decades. It’s only on this new(ish) computer of mine where holding down power button to power off seems to tank a windows install 100% of the time.
Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this ? Perhaps some command prompt shenanigans or similar ?
It’s driving me insane and makes me constantly paranoid my windows install is going to die should there be a power cut etc
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