INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE: 1. go into your BIOS and make sure the HDD is set to AHCI because if you have it set to IDE it will crash (and conversely)
2. are you using EFI boot mode? 3. try just this - boot to safe mode only, then select reboot and Windows should be back to normal (maybe) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington < [email protected]> wrote: > I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot device" > message in Windows 10. > > I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery environment and > then: > > Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with > > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /rebuildbcd > > But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot - all > the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no boot. So > I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I can't > find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction. > > Any ideas? > > T > > >
