The disk is so corrupted, even if it get repaired, a reinstall will most likely be in order.Ģ. Ok, thanks for that however, looking at the 3 days spent trying to repair the OS without success tells me that by 'my logic' there are either one of two situations at work:ġ. When the Aperture Circle starts spinning around for too long, it's time to use GWscan or some other full disk scanning prog.
If none of those steps work after scanning the drive for errors, then we can reinstall 8 or try some other recovery methods.īut in the last 6 months, drive repair has become a kind of forte for me, and I've repaired not only 2 of my own systems but about 15 of my clients PCs with this same problem. The system booted right up after the scan was complete.īefore we have people totally reinstalling Windows 8 needlessly, there are many mroe steps we can take: Running Bootrec /Fixmbr and then /scanos from the install disk, and even running the Automatic repair from the install disk, which I have done a number of times and it actually fixed a couple mroe things before booting. All I did was run GWscan, and the full surface scan/repair. My original 500 GB WD hard drive developed that same error, and I got the same Boot Screen with the same result the OP posted.
The entire filesystem is probably intact, but unreadable.
