That was a good idea. I ran SpinRite (no problems found) but the
bootrec /fixboot still gives "access denied". So then I cloned the
drive to a brand new drive, but it's the same problem.
There must be another MBR fix utility out there.
T
On 01/11/2017 4:39 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:
It could be a bad sector on the boot section of the drive.
Spinrite is a useful tool for diagnosing that, and in some cases fixing it
to the point where you can at least boot the drive and/or get the data off
it.
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Brian
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Thane K. Sherrington <
th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote:
No external drives. I can boot to a flash drive or DVD (I'm booting to
DVD to get into RE.
T
Are you sure there are no external drives are plugged in? External drives
can sometimes re-order the way 10 sees the drives. I have had this happen
more then once with windows 10.
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington <
th...@computerconnectionltd.com> 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
