Any magical fix that i am unaware of

[Big Jim]

Had a customer PC in for a repair (related to monitor cables) PC was booting just fine albeit a little slow so I called them and convinced them to go for an SSD upgrade, however couldn't image the drive as there was an outstanding disk check, so ran check disk and now it won't boot.
Startup repair fails
Bootrec works but its the same
no restore points
no backup image
Safe mode takes you to the recovery screen also
reset won't even work

back in the XP days you could install over the top of the existing installation and that would sometimes fix the OS, but that went away with W7.


Data is safe but I would rather avoid OS/Program reinstallation if possible.

 

[Kitten Kong]

Any reason why you don't want to do a fresh install?

 

[Big Jim]

Any reason why you don't want to do a fresh install?

loads of software, getting keys etc could be a problem.
Office/Lightroom/AutoCAD for a start

 

[Your PCMD]

Data is safe but I would rather avoid OS/Program reinstallation if possible.

Any reason why you don't want to do a fresh install?

I agree with @Kraken as with a fresh install, you'll not be transferring anything that isn't needed to the new SSD. Since data is intact, simply transfer the data over. You could even use @fabs to backup the existing data for easy restore. Unless there are programs on it that you just cannot get anymore, there is really no reason to not do a fresh install.

 

[Diggs]

Once the dirty bit is tripped on a drive there's not much you can do but run a disk check to correct it. Since I've had this happen before I usually image the drive first which only helps some times.

There are some boot recovery programs out there. Lazesoft comes to mind. I know there are others. Just can't think of them right now. Sometimes they work. Other times not so much.....

 

[Big Jim]

I've just bit the bullet and called the customer and asked for keys/passwords etc.
it seems that all the software is actually legit so should be able to get everything sorted.

Always difficult trying to explain why its happened when they ask though.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Always difficult trying to explain why its happened when they ask though.

Not really. They called you in to fix it, no doubt because it was misbehaving. This is the proof of that.

 

[Mick]

Once the dirty bit is tripped on a drive there's not much you can do but run a disk check to correct it. Since I've had this happen before I usually image the drive first which only helps some times.

There are some boot recovery programs out there. Lazesoft comes to mind. I know there are others. Just can't think of them right now. Sometimes they work. Other times not so much.....

There's this. No idea if it works with Win 10, since it's a three-year old article.

 

[Diggs]

There's this. No idea if it works with Win 10, since it's a three-year old article.

I've seen that. A bit too gnarly for me. I image the drive and boot or reset with chkdsk. If it doesn't boot I'll run Lazesoft against it and if that doesn't fix the boot it's on to a fresh install.

 

[johnrobert]

when not booting and no system restore I have had success booting into Linux and restoring the backup in Config folder