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  • Dylonez
    PCHF Member
    • Aug 2019
    • 2

    #1

    Reboot or Enter Drive

    Hi guys, I am new to the forum due to my new found problem / error that is occurring on my PC. I have switched it on today, and have been greet by an error message; โ€œrepairing disks, this may take more than an hour.โ€. After that it goes into a black screen saying โ€œreboot or enter driveโ€ฆโ€ so on. I have reloaded by Boots and the BBS Hard Drive order, and according to Windows, entered the flash drive that I have downloaded Win 10 onto and tried to โ€œrepair your pcโ€. But to no prevailโ€ฆ

    Help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
  • veeg
    PCHF Director
    • Jul 2016
    • 8978

    #2
    Hello

    Your HDD may be failing.. Please post the error code and error message..

    @Bruce

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    • Bruce
      PCHF Moderator
      • Oct 2017
      • 10697

      #3
      whatโ€™s the age of the PC/hard drive?
      but yeah, Windows found something wrong with the drive - either bad sectors or a change in the SMART values, doesnโ€™t matter why, issue is drive is flagged as dodgy and needs repairing.
      looks like that process itself is not working, maybe due to the severity of the fault.

      I never trust a drive that has bitten my on the bum once, yes I backup like a god damn flat-earther, anti-vaccer, moon landing was staged, conspiracy nutter but if you canโ€™t trust your primary means of data retrieval, itโ€™s time to replace it.

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      • Dylonez
        PCHF Member
        • Aug 2019
        • 2

        #4
        I hear you Bruce, might need to get it checked professionally?? But the actual error code is, โ€œReboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a keyโ€. When I press a key, it just rewrites the same message repeatedly.

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        • Evan_Omo
          PCHF Member
          • Sep 2016
          • 1257

          #5
          Hi Dylonez, Welcome to PCHF!

          Have you backed up your data on that hard drive? If so then you may want to try booting from your Windows 10 installation media and try repairing the Windows installation but if you are getting the Reboot and select proper boot device error then the hard drive may have failed and you will need to get replaced.

          You can also try reinstalling Windows 10 from scratch on that drive and see if your system actually boots up properly on that hard drive.

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          • phillpower2
            PCHF Administrator
            • Sep 2016
            • 15206

            #6
            Any update for us?

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            • phillpower2
              PCHF Administrator
              • Sep 2016
              • 15206

              #7
              Any update for us? This thread will be closed if not replied to within 48hrs.

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