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May 7th, 2021 22:00
14 R1, strange Windows 10 boot issue?
Recently, I bought a used Alienware 14 laptop from eBay. It's motherboard had been replaced a number of years ago, and the seller within the last few months had swapped out the HHD for a Kingston HyperX Fury 960GB SSD and the seller had some issues installing Windows 10 beforehand, but eventually got it working by setting the boot option to UEFI only (before it was W7).
The first day I got it, it worked perfectly. Throughout the day, I swapped out 2 flash drives transferring my old PC files about 10 times, while also installing some games totaling to about half the 1tb SSD by the end of the day. Overnight, I left a particularly large game installing with the mouse noticeably lagging every few seconds.
The next day, I wake up to find the download done but my computer frozen with the mouse in the middle. I rebooted with the power button to find it automatically went to Automatic Repair tool. Every subsequent time I rebooted, the right side of my PC would make a strange noise and either would put me on the 'Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC.' or 2 other varieties of repair tool menus with the same options.
Using > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUKHp4Q_Fls&ab_channel=EasyTechs
and > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulko1Di5PcQ&t=31s&ab_channel=TechBern
I tried restarting, using the startup repair tool, using CMD regback (i was told not do do so as no files appear at the last step), resetting the PC both keeping and removing all files, system restore (no restores available) and CMD chkdsk.
My last hope was using the Recovery Tool 'Use a Device' option, where I got the Windows 10 ISO from the MS site on a flash drive and tried (idk if it was installing or just running from there). After about 5 hours of loading, I figured that option was going nowhere as most places I see installing W10 from a flash drive only ends up taking ~15 minutes.
I later tried booting the flash with > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8U-bWQ8tqY&t=571s&ab_channel=TechRaj
however, when I got to the boot menu i could not find boot priority order or anything to boot from an external device. Here, I ended up changing the EUFI boot option to Legacy, which ended up not even booting the Windows Recovery.
Somewhere along the way, what normally displayed when I restarted ( Checking Media ) eventually started displaying ( Checking Media [Failed] )
I am utterly lost at this point lol. Any advice? Is there any hope in trying to boot W10 from the flash drive again? Should I attempt booting W7? Is there something else I should try with CMD?
Literally any help is greatly appreciated, I desperately need this PC and I apologize for any misunderstanding on my part. Ig i'm good with computers but this is a little beyond what i'm familiar with
The first day I got it, it worked perfectly. Throughout the day, I swapped out 2 flash drives transferring my old PC files about 10 times, while also installing some games totaling to about half the 1tb SSD by the end of the day. Overnight, I left a particularly large game installing with the mouse noticeably lagging every few seconds.
The next day, I wake up to find the download done but my computer frozen with the mouse in the middle. I rebooted with the power button to find it automatically went to Automatic Repair tool. Every subsequent time I rebooted, the right side of my PC would make a strange noise and either would put me on the 'Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC.' or 2 other varieties of repair tool menus with the same options.
Using > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUKHp4Q_Fls&ab_channel=EasyTechs
and > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulko1Di5PcQ&t=31s&ab_channel=TechBern
I tried restarting, using the startup repair tool, using CMD regback (i was told not do do so as no files appear at the last step), resetting the PC both keeping and removing all files, system restore (no restores available) and CMD chkdsk.
My last hope was using the Recovery Tool 'Use a Device' option, where I got the Windows 10 ISO from the MS site on a flash drive and tried (idk if it was installing or just running from there). After about 5 hours of loading, I figured that option was going nowhere as most places I see installing W10 from a flash drive only ends up taking ~15 minutes.
I later tried booting the flash with > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8U-bWQ8tqY&t=571s&ab_channel=TechRaj
however, when I got to the boot menu i could not find boot priority order or anything to boot from an external device. Here, I ended up changing the EUFI boot option to Legacy, which ended up not even booting the Windows Recovery.
Somewhere along the way, what normally displayed when I restarted ( Checking Media ) eventually started displaying ( Checking Media [Failed] )
I am utterly lost at this point lol. Any advice? Is there any hope in trying to boot W10 from the flash drive again? Should I attempt booting W7? Is there something else I should try with CMD?
Literally any help is greatly appreciated, I desperately need this PC and I apologize for any misunderstanding on my part. Ig i'm good with computers but this is a little beyond what i'm familiar with
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Kekktye
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May 8th, 2021 03:00
I fixed it!
For anyone in the future with my particular issue:
My SSD corrupted! Probably shouldn't be downloading so much at once, especially with a flash drive on a new SSD.
I ended up putting in a Windows 7 install disk, installing it through legacy bios and wiping the SSD in its options and formatting it in CMD, then installing Windows 10 from there. Since the Windows 7 install disk was off of the ... disk, wiping the SSD while install wasn't an issue. Now my main issue is finding all the proper drivers for a system not really meant to have Alienware Windows 10 lol.
Maybe i should've realized sooner that if the SSD was corrupt, it probably won't have a good time booting a corrupted OS.
crimsom
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May 8th, 2021 00:00
The old Alienware 14 (2013) has been discontinued, and cannot play large modern games.