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Tacotardis42:
Hello! First thing to saym it's my fault and most likely not the fault of a virus. I honestly don't know what I did, but my windows 10 boots up to BSOD error Inaccessible boot device, and nothing I've tried has helped. I dual-boot with linux, but it broke later, so that is doubtfully the cause. I can boot up linux and cd/dvds normally, it's just windows. Using the windows built in recovery options using the win 10 recovery cd, I used to be able to boot into windows using system restore, but I would have to it every time (to be clear, it didn't always do that, and as soon as it did I tried to fix it), but windows of course decided to delete all my restore points, ans startup repair was unable to fix it, and I can't get into the advanced boot options menu (i.e safe mode plus oher stuff), even using cmd prompt to enable it. Chkdsk and SFC don't work, and Dism didn't work properly even when I could boot up usig system restore, and I haven't made backups since I only recently installed windows 10. The reset windows option fails at about 30% and "updating" using the installation media disk reqires me to boot into windows. The only time I managed to access the advanced boot menu, safe mode crashed as well. As far as I can tell, my only option left is to completely reinstall windows 10 from scratch, which is inconvenient as I do not have many personal files, and no irreplaceable one I can't move, but is still a last resort. Is there anything I can do to fix it, aside from complete data-destroying reinstall? Sorry if this is a tall order, but I tried essentially everything I could think of, and I'm understanbly a bit annoyed. Thanks in advance!

Boggin:
Are all non-essential items unplugged from the machine ?

As you seem to have tried everything, I think you will have to revert to your previous OS - please tell me you created a system image before upgrading...

Tacotardis42:
I only have a dvd in here at ths moment, and even without one it fails. I'll be honest, I didn't BUT I do not have any essential files and even if after everything I do I'm stuck without Windows, I have linux to use, which in my opinion is better anyway. Just slightly more boring without all the problems to fix XD And I believe I could reset to factory default, but obviously that's only in extreme cases. I don't mind too much if I have to reinstall 10, it's just a bit of a hassle. Besides, windows 7 updates for me were way too much of aproblem on this machine.

Boggin:
I think as long as Win 7 has SP1 you should be able to do a clean install of Win 10 without bothering with the other 200+ Win 7 updates.

Tacotardis42:
I can do a reinstall directly from the dvd, supposedly at least. That would be preferable, so I'll try that first. Maybe try a last ditch effort, if I can think of one.

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