Solved Diagnosing a windows that won't start up

antspants said:

Seriously.

Click to expand...

Seriously, ant man. Looks like you called it again. Flashing the BIOS solved the problem.

Myself, I won't tell anyone to flash their BIOS. I'll hint at it though. Doing this is always risky bizznizz but sometimes it has to be done.

My next move would be to eliminate Bitlocker but that's me. It's just one of those things.

I'm guessing this thread can be marked 'solved'.

AshForeth said:

Ok, the issue is about BIOS after all. After the restore, the same issue remains, so I decided to go into the bios and refresh the BIOS, I flashed it with the same version as before. After flashing, it works fine, but I have no idea what happen? The BIOS is apparently from Feb, so I can't imagine it just not working 2 months later?

Click to expand...

The mysteries of primitive technology. In the future — we are enjoying thought processing with Quantum Computers the size of a pin head implanted into the fat of our buttocks.

Scannerman said:

Seriously, ant man. Looks like you called it again. Flashing the BIOS solved the problem.

Myself, I won't tell anyone to flash their BIOS. I'll hint at it though. Doing this is always risky bizznizz but sometimes it has to be done.

My next move would be to eliminate Bitlocker but that's me. It's just one of those things.

I'm guessing this thread can be marked 'solved'.

Click to expand...

I guess I didn't think it was the bios because I could get into the safe mode and still access the directorys so I thought the TPM was still working, but my guess is when I apply the recovery key it decrypted the drive and kept it decrypted. Fixing the tpm by flashing the bios seems like a weird way of fixing the issue.

antspants said:

The mysteries of primitive technology. In the future — we are enjoying thought processing with Quantum Computers the size of a pin head implanted into the fat of our buttocks.

Click to expand...

Right beside the National ID number we'll be given.

Berton said:

Right beside the National ID number we'll be given.

Click to expand...

Don't we already have one of those?

I don't think a Social Insecurity Number is much different than an SIN number.

In Canada it is called a Social Insurance Number.

Not sure if you need this but you can launch in safe mode with command prompt then just remove the bit locker prompt from popping up,
Open command prompt in admin mode (just press shift and f10) type
manage-bde -unlock C: -RecoveryPassword 1111-1111-1111-1111-1111-1111 (replacing the 1s obviously with the actual recovery key or recovery password and hit enter, it’ll unlock the drive if it’s locked since the turning off won’t work unless it’s unlocked,
Then to turn off that prompt at boot type In command prompt
manage-bde -off C: or whatever your drive is and manage-bde -status to check if it’s decrypted and off. You can always turn it back on the same way or in windows later.

To recover sfc /scan now isn’t super effective without using dism first which in command prompt just type
Dism.exe /image:C:\ (or your drive letter) -/Cleanup-Image /Scanhealth
And the same after that but instead of /ScanHealth change it to /CheckHealth
And the same dism command line prompt but change /CheckHealth to /RestoreHealth and it’ll repair any corruptions after making a log and your computer now knows in more detail what to repair when you run that sfc command.
If it says cant perform because it points to an online windows installation replace /image:C:\ with /Online and run
Also dism /image:C:\ /cleanup-image /analyzecomponentstore
And then the same but change the end /analyze command to /startcomponentcleanup to fix any corruptions remove leftover caches files or folders or stores that need to be garbage collected

Also type in command prompt
Verify on
and hit enter in command prompt
Also

Chkdsk /x /f /b /r which will perform an offline check of bad user sectors any corruptions fixes errors and repairs whatever it is you need
Also any combination of those will do scans such as
Chkdsk /b to just look for bad sectors in users profiles and repair them
Chkdsk /x to do a readonly offline scan of what needs to be fixed
Chkdsk /f to fix bad sectors
Chkdsk /r to try repair bad sectors
Type
chkdsk /? To get a full list of all the other chkdsk repair options

You can run
fsutil behavior set bugcheckoncorrupt C: 1 to enable checking for bugs on corruption
Also run fsutil behavior set /? To see a full list of other commands always use /? To display the available commands or options for anything such as adding it to the end of any command will show you a list of available options to enter for that command.

Run fsutil repair set C: 1 to enable repairs
Fsutil dirty set C: to make the drive as dirty and a scan will automatically start on next boot

Autochk.exe in command prompt or windowskey and R (pressing ctrl+enter to launch in admin mode) will enable auto checking on next boot,

Right click on your drive in the folders view (type explorer.exe in ‘run’ by opening run.exe using the windows key and r to bring up the box, typing in explorer.exe to open the folder view) and after right clicking on the drive and selecting properties go to the tools tab and click to scan and repair drive

Also you can clear the tpm using mmc.exe in the run box ctrl and enter to run in admin mode, click the first toolbar option up top of the window it might be file or open or options I can’t remember lol then select add snap in select the tpm and click on the button that says to use all available extensions and add the tpm viewing snap in, click next or whatever the button is to access it then click that first top left window button again and click options and select author to be able to edit options or make changes if it’s on user mode which stops editing,

There’s a whole bunch of other things I can suggest but these are just a couple of lesser known repair commands in command prompt and turning off the prompt for the recovery key.