windows 10 updates to sd card, now the desktop etc doesnt work?

[ExoMale]

okay so i have a dell inspiron 11.6, its the model that has:

Celeron N3050
2gb ram
32gb emmc

so its like the HP stream that cant be upgraded, its a windows 10 version and while i was aware of what to expect, it does and doesnt do what i want, so i got a sandisk ultra 32gb micro sd which works fine, didnt try to see if i could use it to offload ram, but i did use it to do some windows updates and ever since it did the whole 'we getting it ready etc' after a certain update, any time i restart the machine its slower to boot and when the password i have does work i get a black desktop with only the bin icon, cant open start menu or anything and i get a error about missing desktop or something.

anyways i dont know whats gone wrong and windows 10 recovery was slow or crashed?


an older laptop i was running windows 10 on has a 32gb ssd that i fitted ages ago, so before any big updates and to do the same updates(pre purchase of the dell) i had to use a 16gb usb flash drive and that worked fine? obviously if i dont leave it connected then windows doesnt boot, so i dont see why this setup with the dell be any different.

 

[Lopéz]

I have exactly the same issue on a my PC, updated last night and now Desktop is missing and you cannot do anything.

 

[Scort]

Are you able to open task manager using Ctrl+Shift+Escape? If so, go to File/Run and type in explorer.exe to see if that starts explorer for you, once you have that, you could maybe look at clearing out the temporary locations on the drive:

%tmp%
%windir%\temp

Then give it a reboot.

 

[Rroff]

Are you able to open task manager using Ctrl+Shift+Escape? If so, go to File/Run and type in explorer.exe to see if that starts explorer for you, once you have that, you could maybe look at clearing out the temporary locations on the drive:

%tmp%
%windir%\temp

Then give it a reboot.

Had this on a few systems - but in a lot of cases though you can open task manager you often can't run anything - any commands seem to complete but do nothing - the only fix was to select reboot while holding down shift, hope it goes into safe mode and do a repair install.

 

[ExoMale]

thanks for replies.

i still hadnt sorted this out, getting quite annoying, i end up the odd time with a diagnostic menu/test if it fails to boot which the last time i did it was saying no hard drive? ii dont know what emmc be classed as, but i couldnt even get to the recovery bit which im hoping if i do then it wont crash to reset, but even taking the sd card out and no matter how many times i keep powering down via the button and smashing f8, its not doing anything, just loads windows really slowly and as for task manager, i am able to get that up, but do nothing else.

i had to go in to the bios and turn on legacy(now off) to use usb media, but that is for 64 bit windows and recovery offers no options to reset the laptop under its normal win 10 which id imagine is down to thats a 32 bit.

given it has windows 10 pre-installed i dont want to faff with my usb media, i now just want to reset the laptop and sell it on, let someone set it up and deal with it.. i have never had this issue before and as i said, the older laptop works fine with windows updates on a usb flash drive.

 

[Scort]

Couple of long shots:

If you can get taskman up, can you Run a cmd window from it - then do a sfc /scannow to see if ti fixes the issue.

Download the MediaCreationTool and use that to setup a boot-able Windows 10 USB stick, then launch the repair from within the PXE?

 

[Rroff]

i keep powering down via the button and smashing f8, its not doing anything

MS removed the old style F8 safemode in Windows 10 - because apparently it "boots too fast to respond to a key press" which is utter nonsense much like a lot of the OS. You have to go into the recovery mode either by restarting from within Windows holding down shift (or going to safemode via the control panel recovery option) or hoping it is triggered by 3 failed boot attempts (which often doesn't actually work). When things don't actually work you are kind of stuck with hoping you have some recovery media to boot from.

MS have some very "special" people working on Windows 10 it seems who can't see outside of a narrow blinkered vision.

 

[Scort]

Another thing to try - via taskman, open msconfig[/] - in there you can go to Boot and tick Safe Boot with Minimal, see if that gets you into a workable Windows - can try different combinations.

 

[ExoMale]

just an update, i tried the shift + restart and that worked getting to the recovery options, however i couldnt reset as it kept saying not enough space, tried to free up some bits as there was a 'windows old' folder that i managed to remove some bits, but still didnt do anything, ive now completely wiped the emmc drive and while the sd card doesnt display in boot manager, i cant seem to format the main drive for partition as its saying its not a bootable drive basically, so i cant install 64 bit windows off a usb drive i have and upon noticing on dell service bit, 64 bit seems to be the only win 10 offered..

so basically till i figure out how to enable the emmc drive then this laptop is only good for bios now lol. i did try various cmd stuff, but nothing worked or it did till a reboot and explorer still didnt work properly.