Updating Windows 10 and its problems…the old lyre…
Monday:
Hi folks,
After a very taxing working day I am finally back home. I look forward to a nice evening. Like always every day, I thought, I could play a computer game to relax. I never thought that this would become so complicated today. You probably know that feeling, you just want to relax after a hard working day and switch off your mind. I like to play computer games. Apparently not today…
I am very angry…
Nonetheless, I decided to write about it, maybe just to help you if this problem occurs to you.
Now to the point, I’m sure you can imagine, what suddenly prevents my computer from working properly. Exactly, Microsoft Windows Updates… They are happy to come when they are not wanted.
When I booted my computer, everything seemed to work normally. I had noticed that updates were downloaded and installed in the background. The PC needed a restart, so I did it to get the whole process behind me.
Suddenly the PC stops booting from the hard disk and shows this error message:
„Inaccessible Boot Device‘‘.
I thought I was going crazy and were not in the mood for gaming or something else anymore.
Tuesday:
I started to think about this “Inaccessible Boot Device” and I read on my mobile phone on the internet, that this was caused by the October-Patch-Day.
Several private users reported the error „inaccessible boot device“, after this update.
This error usually occurs when the system does not recognize the boot device while it wants to boot the system. Accordingly it’s unable to start Windows 10.
In the current case, users receive this error during they are using a PC. That is great, isn’t it?! Aww yeah, my good old Microsoft OS, i just love it!
So, you’re working on an important thing and suddenly a blue screen appears.
Well…
I hope this let you all remember the most important thing: Always make a backup of your system!
I’ve been thinking about what it might be and maybe the updates have just jumbled up the boot sectors of the hard drive. Maybe the hard disk is not in the first place in the boot menu in BIOS. So, that’s why it is not recognized anymore.
I could also try to boot the PC from a stick to run a Windows Repair Tool. Maybe it fixes the problem.
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A most complicated solution would be to boot the computer in troubleshooting mode. With this I could delete the failed updates in the PC settings under Update and Security. Possibly, too many updates have been installed or they don’t work well together on some computers…
Wednesday:
After I clarified unsuccessfully, if there is anything wrong with the order of the boot-options in the BIOS, I decided to try fixing the problem with the troubleshoot.
Therefore, you need to boot into “Troubleshooting” as I mentioned before. You will get to see the following screen:
You need to choose Troubleshoot and then you’ll see some advanced options.
Select to “Command Prompt”-Option and the system will boot again.
Then you must delete some registry-files which can cause problems. These registry keys were written in your last session. To load the software registry hive you need to type in the following command:
· reg load hklm\temp c:\windows\system32\config\software
If there are any registry keys from your last session, like it was in my case, delete them with this command:
· reg delete “HKLM\temp\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\SessionsPending” /v Exclusive
Then you need to close the software registry hive again with:
· reg unload HKLM\temp
The next step is to display the installed packages. The command is:
· dism /image:C:\ get-packages
You should see there some packages with the state “Install Pending”. These are the packages which cause the problems. We need to create a temporary directory where we can move and then delete those packages. You create this directory with the command:
· MKDIR C:\temp\packages
Then you remove this files with the following command line:
· dism /image:c:\ /remove-package /packagename:PACKAGEIDENTITYNAME /scratchdir:c:\temp\packages
This line will be followed by a process where those files will be moved into the created directory. You need to look up if the process will be completed successfully. This is very important. Otherwise you must redo the last 2 steps again.
If it is completed successfully you can reboot your computer and update your windows again.
Well guys, I hope you all get your systems running again and you will be able to play your favorite games again. In my case, I will start now and relax ;-)
