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03-13-2018 07:20 AM
OK I done what you said " Open the Command Prompt with Admin privileges and issue the command CHKDSK /X" was it supposed to do anything at the time of doing it ? as it just stayed like that, so I clicked restart and it still switches off then just lies idle with the power on light displayed but not rebooting, tried it twice same thing, I havent had time to look at the other link yet, bit aprehensive after what happened yesterday, but I will look later , cheers
03-13-2018 09:04 AM
CHKDSK /X does not do anything right away but schedules a disk check to happen at the next boot.
Might not work when the machine hangs at the shutdown phase. It should take a while at the next boot if it works.
03-14-2018 06:55 AM
First try the following:
Hit WinKey+R and type shutdown /s as the command. This should do a full shutdown istead of preparing for a Fast Startup.
If this does not help, try to run the msconfig in Safe Mode as follows (there have been some issues with msconfig options not always been saved otherwise)
1. Keep the Shift key down and select Restart
2. Select Troubleshoot in the Windows boot menu
3. Select Startup settings
4. Select restart
5. Select Enable safe mode with networking
6. After restarting open command prompt in admin mode and run msconfig
7. Make sure normal startup is selected
8. Restart the computer
9. Run the shutdown /s as above
10. check that you can shutdown normally
11. run the chkdsk
03-14-2018 12:20 PM
Sorry, I should have read your reply more carefully, I originally missed the part that it is the restart that does not work.
What probably happens is that the boot phase of the restart fails because of some corruption in the system partition.
The information can be reinitialized using information from the Windows directory as follows:
1. Open the Command prompt in Admin mode
2 Issue the command bcdboot c:\windows
Try restarting and shutting down a few times and if everything works run the chkdsk /x as mentioned in earlier messages.
Should the bad turn into worse, you can run startup repair after booting from Windows 10 installation media USB (that you should create on the Microsoft page if you have not already, 8GB or bigger USB required), but let's hope this will not be necessary.
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
03-15-2018 06:01 AM
that worked a treat first time cheers. I have 2 programs ( spotify and Kies) that when de-selected at start up halves my start up time, but the status on my " msconfig" then alters from >>>> normal start up. to >>>
selective start up. which obviously makes sense , thanks again for you time and effort it is appreciated
03-15-2018 09:24 AM
Great that you got that sorted!
Take it as learning experience and now you have some tools if something similar should happen again.
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