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Originally Posted by dude1e
i bought a 500 gig hd on ebay,it has some good software i dont want to lose,microsoft said i needed 29 updates,i let it update than it ran for about 2 more days than would not boot,i need to rebuild the mbr or somehow fix this problem so i can boot win10pro,as i can not boot i do not have disk space to download win10 iso 32 bit and when using a different computer at library it wants to make me run the media creator,i see no way to install win10 pro on a different computer,so can anyone tell me how to fix the mbr,the hard drive is now hid and w ont boot,i tried testdisk on it and it shows it at disk/dev/sr0 it shows 1419mb/1354 mib i see i can fix probably with test disk or gparted i just have not run ubuntu long enough to feel confident in fixing this i can be reached at dude1e@yahoo.com thanks for any response |
if you do not have or cannot obtain an install disk or repair disk for windows10 to run fix boot, fix mbr then if it is still available you can download win10 for a USB stick install, (I've done this for my free win10 update) and just do a fresh install windows10. but that does not save whatever software you maybe speaking of.
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Boot from the original installation DVD (or the recovery USB)
At the Welcome screen, click Repair your computer.
Choose Troubleshoot.
Choose Command Prompt.
When the Command Prompt loads, type the following commands: bootrec /FixMbr bootrec /FixBoot bootrec /ScanOs bootrec /RebuildBcd.
if you can get that USB install it maybe able to be used for your fix boot and fix mbr then you'll have to deal with grub if you have a Linux and grub installed on that hdd or secondary hdd. but that is something to worry about later.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...d/windows10ISO
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool
again you need to get a hold of a DVD / USB install of Windows 10 to get it to fix your mbr / and boot .. windows is like that.
another thought - no space maybe why you cannot boot?
can you get into it through that dvd Linux boot and make space by deleting non essential data to give yourself a little room if that disk is completely full due to that update?
or have an extra USB stick and you can move whatever in windows over onto that extra USB Stick for safe keeping?
see if you can give yourself as much room as you can, at least 100MB to 1GB free space if that hard disk is full may not have room for whatever windows needs to use it for to boot, (ie. page files).
that free space is just a guess-ta-mastion btw.
that one is just a maybe btw.
a note one that USB creator, I did that with my laptop, made one that is, it just creates a bootable install of Windows 10 on a USB it does not attempt to install windows on the computer. if you can get past whatever security on the library PC if you have to I'd do it. if you have the time on the PC in the library.
(as long as you do not damage the library PC of course
as I do not subscribe to hacking library PCs for ones own personal use
)
