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Computer will not load or go into safe mode
Boggin:
Yes, unless you can turn off Secure Boot then you're not going to be able to boot up with anything, but it was worth a try.
Boggin:
Let's try something else.
Can you download Macrium Reflect Free and create a Macrium WPE disk - ideally this should be created on the affected machine but should suffice for what I want to try.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Insert a DVD then click on the Disk Image icon and follow the prompts.
Before clicking to commence burning, check the box to Enable multiboot MBR/UEFI USB support if using an USB as well as checking the USB box for choice of media.
This supports Secure Boot so it may not need to be disabled for the machine to boot up from the disk.
You may have to go into the BIOS of the affected machine to check that the Boot order is still set to check the CD/DVD drive before the HDD - insert the disk - press F10 to Save and Exit - press enter to confirm and hopefully you should be prompted to press any key to boot from CD/DVD.
If that's successful, click on Fix Windows boot problems - click on your version of Windows - Next - check the box for Windows C: - Next - Finish where it will rebuild the BCD which will hopefully get you back in.
Remove the disk then click on Yes for the restart.
Siver12:
Ok so I made the Macrium Rescue Disk, However, I figured out why the Kaspersky Rescue disk wasn't working. So I created a USB drive with Kaspersky and got it to run. I do have a number of questions on it. And I did read the manual!!
1. I did a scan in graphics mode first ticking just the first 2 boxes. So not C drive. No issues. Then I ticked the c Drive and unticked the other 2 but I was having issues with the proxy server not connecting. So I do I figure that out? I have the port number and IP address. What do I use for Username and Password?
2. So Then I went into text mode. Did the scan on the faster items. Then I clicked on the C drive. I was into an hour and still at 1%. Is that normal? Still had no issues when i gave up. Restarted computer and it actually went into the screen a different screen that said "repairing something. Will take an hour or more". Sorry don't remember what exactly it said, But it seemed positive. Like maybe I had a chance to get it fixed. Then 15 min in the Blue screen Reared its ugly color!! So I guess if you guys know the answers to some my questions I'll try Kaspersky again. Or may just go with the Macrium. Although throwing the tower out the window is looking mighty tempting!
Boggin:
You need to have patience when you are running something like that - I'd try it again.
It had obviously made some progress for you to get a different screen.
I'm running it again on another machine to refresh my memory.
Did you select My Update Center and Ethernet connect for it to update its Database before the scan ?
I momentarily had a couple of lines where it said it had failed something or other but it wasn't on the screen long enough for me to read it.
Not sure if Ethernet connecting resolved that.
While I've never read the manual, in the Objects Scan menu I don't have C: listed.
This is on a Win 10 machine.
The default two are for Disk Boot Sectors and Hidden startup objects.
It gives me three others as sda1, sda2 and sda3 but when I've run the scan previously to get me out of the mire, I've just run it on the default settings selected.
The sda files have icons on the desktop which when clicked on, do cover other items such as AMD for that machine, so it may be prudent to check those boxes as well, given that you are getting a BSOD.
When it has updated its database - and it's still on 41% and has been updating for about 30mins now, I'll select all of the items and see how it progresses and let you know later.
I wasn't prompted for a username or password - but the machine isn't password protected.
For you, that may have been because you had selected C: which I can't replicate.
Don't throw it out of the window yet :)
Boggin:
Just an update on the scan.
After running at 1% for a little while - didn't check the time, it went to a black screen but as one of the items it was checking was the graphics, I assume it would need to turn them off, pretty much like you get a black screen when updating graphics drivers.
When it came back on it showed that it was scanning sda3 which was the last one but it's giving a finish time of 7 hours and showing at 9%
I'll just be letting it run to completion even though the machine doesn't have a fault.
EDIT - It has just changed the finish time to 8 hours so don't know when it will finish but it's still on 9%.
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