The dreaded BOOTMGR

[Cyanide]

Would a secure erase fix it?

The drive's working again now, managed to clean the partitions and unlock it but I've not been able to recover ANY data from it. Even a deep scan with recovery software hasn't found anything

 

[freddie64]

Glad you got it working again.

Don't know anything about data recovery, so can't help there.

 

[malachi]

I had an Ssd which kept on doing this. Be OK for a few weeks then crash or get the BOOTMGR error. Turned out the SSD was faulty enough though ssd life said it was OK.

 

[Cyanide]

Update - I got this AGAIN last night.

Brand new 850 Evo, no errors at all but absolutely nothing would fix it, couldn't unlock the drive to restore and I had to do a full wipe and fresh install.

Is Windows 10 just that bad? This is the 3rd time in as many months that this has happened to me

 

[joedeath332]

Update - I got this AGAIN last night.

Brand new 850 Evo, no errors at all but absolutely nothing would fix it, couldn't unlock the drive to restore and I had to do a full wipe and fresh install.

Is Windows 10 just that bad? This is the 3rd time in as many months that this has happened to me

Did you have this problem before you went to windows 10 ? If the answer is no and it was me
. I know what I would be doing for sure
Win7 cd would be getting used

 

[Cyanide]

Did you have this problem before you went to windows 10 ? If the answer is no and it was me
. I know what I would be doing for sure
Win7 cd would be getting used

I don't recall it happening under Win7...

I do prefer Win10 now I've got used to it though, plus I'd need to go out and buy a new Win7 key

 

[biuro74]

Just 2 things:
* make USB bootable (with Win10 it's worth to make UEFI/secure boot > this requires GPT-style partitioning model, however)
https://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US
* boot USB pendrive and repair startup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZIPox2a-k

Never do hard reset if HDD LED blinks, just observe this diode.

 

[joedeath332]

I've got a USB drive that I stuck a copy of Windows 10 on but even though I've set USB as the first boot device it's not loading it. I've got all other usb devices unplugged.

BTW did you try i different usb drive and also different slots on the MB.. and also check in bios for anything usb related.

once you get booted from the win 10 usb you should be able to repair the boot mgr.

 

[Cyanide]

USB boot drive wouldn't repair bootmgr, not matter which stick or slot I used. The only way to fix it was a full wipe and fresh install - I tried every method I could find and spent hours messing around on the command console before giving up.

I've got everything backed up so I just left it overnight to restore and it's all fine again now.

 

[Jono8]

Are you running everything at stock? Just though if your OC is unstable it might be corrupting things every now and then.