Windows boot fail

gerico

gerico

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Hi there,

Recently just build my new rig. I had an old install of my previous computers windows so i used my install disk and just fotmatted the SSD, booted from disk and installed windows again.
Howver now when I boot it says:

"preparing your computer for first use" and after a few minutes it just blue screens and it vanishes too quick to see the error code.

Prior to this I was getting boot disk inaccessible. If i got into my boot menu and look at what it can see i get the following:

Windows boot manager (Corsair SSD)
UEFI DVDRAM (my dvd drive, but no idea what UEFI is)
Corsair SSD (again?)
DVDDRAM (again?)
Samsung HDD
Samsung HDD

I set the first in the list to windows boot manager as this is the only one that goes as far as preparing windows. If i set my corsair SSD to primary boot then it just tries to boot - I see the gigabyte logo, screen goes black then it starts all over again in an endless loop.

Any ideas? Really appreciate any help, getting quite worried here.
 
Try to disconnect the other hdd or ssd then try to boot. Also try to install windows without any other hdd connected.

Remember to enable ahci mode if installing on an ssd.
 
Ok so i reformatted (again).

I booted from disk and once the welcome screen appears i hit SHIFT + f10 and typed "diskpart"

then "list disk" - i then saw my SSD so i typed:

"select disk 0" then "clean"

I then reinstalled windows on the SSD and when it gets to the windows completing install part, where it restarts and it should then prepare for first use, it blue screens and then restarts - but again its too quick for me to see the errors.

Any ideas? I'm totally lost as to why that didnt work. Also the SATA mode is set to AHCI already. And i also noticed after it tried to reboot itselfa few times it then says there wa a problem, do you want to run windows as normal or in safe mode and if i choose normal I then get to the "setup is preparing for first use" - but again after a few minutes it blue screens and restarts. Back to square one. Driving me slightly mad now.

The SSD in question is a Cosair F120 - is it possibly fubar?
 
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Possibly, can you try running CrystalDiskInfo (free) or trial of SSDLife and see what it says for the SSD Health.
 
I read it as you could boot to safe mode sorry, thought you had Windows finally installed.

I have a Corsair SSD and there was a lot of them dying around same time as my GT died due to the Controller.
 
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I managed to fix the boot by updating to some beta bios drivers. However this morning i connected some LEDs i bought for the case - so i added a new molex power cable and went to boot and it said the same thing.. Again.

Smething about the drive not being accessible - could it be a dodgy cable somewhere? Last night it was all running fine and i literally did one thing in conmecting the leds , thats it
 
Damn literally just sold my old rig. Ill have to beg some friends to let me borrow their psu to test things out on.
 
I could be completely wrong but it just seems weird that a quick poke about adding some case LED's would cause the situation to change.

I'm sure someone will have one lying around. I do, the missus wishes I didn't.
 
Haha :) yeh i agree its very odd. I did start with these issues too so you might be spot on. Kinda annoying as i thought id got past the problems. Ill see if i can get hold of one tonight and see
 
gerico said:
Haha :) yeh i agree its very odd. I did start with these issues too so you might be spot on. Kinda annoying as i thought id got past the problems. Ill see if i can get hold of one tonight and see
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well if its PSU related the problem aint gonna go away I suppose
 
Ok so bad news so far. Ive disconnected the SSD thinking perhaps its the SSD. Cant even boot from disk, its just saying:

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

Status: 0xc000000e

Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible

Getting very worried. The fact sometimes i can see the drives in the bios but still cant access them confuses me. I dont get what the hell is going on. When i got home i managed to boot to windows and it was fine, i then click restart just to test things and it rebooted but then i got the above message after a simple restart. Since then its not worked again..
 
this usually means that the OS partition is on a different drive that is no longer available or that the small 100mb partition that windows created is missing ie on a different drive.
 
Ploppy2k3 said:
this usually means that the OS partition is on a different drive that is no longer available or that the small 100mb partition that windows created is missing ie on a different drive.
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Yeh its very strange... if the SSD is plugged in and the bios sees it, i tell it to boot from the SSD and i still get the message, despite windows being on that.

I even told it to boot from CD again, and i got the same message :S

*edit - just a second again it keeps cutting out just as it gets to the motherboard screen then restarts itself and does the same all over. I had to manually turn the power off and start it again to get further than the bios.
 
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