Ok, so I've been working on this for the past 10 hours or so, and, while I've learned a lot I've gotten nowhere. So I'll try to cover as much of my situation as I can.
I have a Toshiba Satellite (Laptop) which I've had for the past year and a half or so. Anyway earlier today I decided to restart my pc, (as I do every so often) upon noticing that it was taking longer to boot back up than usual I decided out of frustration
to do a hard shut down mid-reset. After powering back on I was brought to a blue recovery screen which stated that my 'pc couldn't start properly' and that it needed to be repaired, Error code : 0xc0000001. I started by going into BIOS and resetting everything
to default as well as tampering with many other settings but that didn't do anything.
I next proceeded to the HDD recovery menu>troubleshoot> refresh pc? 'The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again.' (I searched the net a while on a windows 7 pc I have access to but couldn't find anything useful on that.)
Next, Advanced options>Auto repair. Here's what I got - Diagnosing> 'Automatic repair couldn't repair your pc.' Then system restore, where I get: 'No restore points have been created on your computer's system drive.'
Also I was unable to start up in Safe mode through the recovery window or diagnose problems, each and any of the keys I use would send me back to a restart loop of either blue recovery page or 60 seconds of loading followed by a perpetual black screen.
Through the troubleshoot> adv options>Command Prompt I tried the following that others found helpful: **Bootrec /fixmbr > 'completed successfully'****Bootrec /fixboot > 'completed successfully'**Bootrec /rebuildbcd > 'Total identified windows installations: 0 'The operation was completed successfully.'
But after that.. nothing happened, restart still failed.
There were also a large number who found this or something very similar to work:
- Press Shift + F10 when you are at the Install Windows screen, The elevated
command prompt at boot will now open.
- Type DISKPART command
- Enter Command LIST VOLUME, note volume no...
- Enter Command SELECT VOLUME "no" (eg1,2,3) mine was 3
- Enter Command ASSIGN LETTER=Z and EXIT
- Enter Command BCDBoot c:\Windows /s z: /f: UEFI
7.Exit and restart.
Neither this nor any other variations I tried seemed to do anything. After
step 3 here's what I see:
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status
Info
Volume 0 E DVD-Rom 0 b No Media
Volume 1 C TI10671000C NTFS Partition 918 GB Healthy
Volume 2 F System NTFSPartition
1024mb Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 FAT32 Partition
260 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 G NTFS Partition
350 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 5 H Recovery NTFS Partition
11 GB Healthy Hidden
Volume 6 D Removable
0 B No Media
After assigning volume 3 letter z it says successfull,
I exit and enter BCDBoot c:\Windows /s z: /f UEFI
Afterwards It tells me: Boot files successfully
created. I restart and... no change.
The only thing I can figure that I am missing
(maybe?) is a recovery disc or usb. No My pc didn't come with a windows 8 disc either. And whats more since I can't gain access to my desktop I can't make one, or can I? Also I don't know of anyone who has 8.1 for me to do it on their pc. Is it possible for
me to do it on win7? Or can I get around using a disc or usb? And lastly, no I really don't want to lose all my info on my pc by reinstalling windows or anything.
Sorry for the huge question but since I've already
been at this for 10+ hours I wanted to be as thorough as I could.
Thanks in adv for taking time to answer.