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So at least I have offsite backups. But what does it take to beat this.
So a family member ask me to look at their old broke Vista laptop, it was giving BSOD even in safe mode.
I took the hard disk out and plugged in to my laptop (via usb) and turned it on, I mistakenly booted from the (now) usb disk and got the same error.
I unplugged the Usb drive and booted my laptop normally but got a login screen with no login prompt.
I attempted to use a usb rescue disk to boot which worked once but not a second time (I rebooted to see if I'd fix the problem)
Second time booting the usb disk I got the same error I got on my ssd, login screen but no prompt.
- some fiddling later and I managed to run chkdsk on my c drive and boot normally. I did a system restore just in case and then proceeded to try again on my laptop disk.
I disabled auto run and plugged it into my laptop, crashed immediately with an ntsf.sys error. I some how fixed that and then tried again after disabling auto mount. Anyway the end result was I rebooted due to weird things like not being able to load taskmgr.
Now I can't boot at all, not even safe mode, I get Critical dead task or something like that.
I can't even boot from a formatted (by a clean PC) usb boot disk so I'm slight worried my laptop is disk also. Or at least the msata disk)
Ideas, help please, never seen anything like this before?
My OS is Win 10 btw.
So a family member ask me to look at their old broke Vista laptop, it was giving BSOD even in safe mode.
I took the hard disk out and plugged in to my laptop (via usb) and turned it on, I mistakenly booted from the (now) usb disk and got the same error.
I unplugged the Usb drive and booted my laptop normally but got a login screen with no login prompt.
I attempted to use a usb rescue disk to boot which worked once but not a second time (I rebooted to see if I'd fix the problem)
Second time booting the usb disk I got the same error I got on my ssd, login screen but no prompt.
- some fiddling later and I managed to run chkdsk on my c drive and boot normally. I did a system restore just in case and then proceeded to try again on my laptop disk.
I disabled auto run and plugged it into my laptop, crashed immediately with an ntsf.sys error. I some how fixed that and then tried again after disabling auto mount. Anyway the end result was I rebooted due to weird things like not being able to load taskmgr.
Now I can't boot at all, not even safe mode, I get Critical dead task or something like that.
I can't even boot from a formatted (by a clean PC) usb boot disk so I'm slight worried my laptop is disk also. Or at least the msata disk)
Ideas, help please, never seen anything like this before?
My OS is Win 10 btw.
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