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A simple way to transfer photos from your phone to Windows without installing anything on either
Mike S wrote:
Apologies, I didn't read that you'd gone through all of that. Good luck. No problem. I appreciate the help, and the tribal record will show others how to recover from a bricked MS Windows 10 Pro update. Basically, you must first try all the viable options in the Windows recovery console using the original HDD. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...tore_gui_1.jpg Then you do all that again, using the absolute latest DVD ISO you can find, and, if you can find the same DVD ISO as the OS that was bricked, you do it a third time. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...dvd_repair.jpg That's all that the Microsoft Technical Support people will do, so then you bring it down to the local Microsoft Retail Store for them to try to fix. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...il_store_6.jpg You leave it with them for a few days, where they will try to recover the OS but if they can't they'll be glad to recover your data (which I didn't have them do because I backed it up with Knoppix ahead of time). http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...il_store_7.jpg They will back up your data to their servers or to any drive you give them, if you want them to, but I can't imagine that they could /find/ your data, so I'm sure if you trust them, you'll lose a lot. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...il_store_1.jpg Anyway, they will fail but when I asked them what they did, they told me they first ran diagnostics, then they tried the recovery console of the boot drive, then the recovery console of the latest Windows Creator edition, and then the recovery console of an older version of Windows 10 and then they ran bcdedit to try to fix the boot record. It all failed but they said there's nothing wrong with the HDD or RAM or motherboard so I picked up my desktop today and am using it now after stopping off at Fryes to buy an SATA III cable and a molex-to-SATA adapter for the power. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...a_cables_1.jpg I had to simply move the SATA position 1 on the motherboard to the boot drive, leaving SATA 2 on the motherboard connected to the DVD disc drive, and then put the new SATAIII cable on SATA position 3 on the motherboard to mount the old HDD, and everything booted up fine. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...e_system_2.jpg I can "see" the old HDD, plus some debugging files the Microsoft store geniuses left behind. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ystem8f091.jpg Where the issue is really closed except for me to try to write up the saga so that the Windows tribal knowledge is updated with the lessons learned. Basically, some of the lessons learned is: 1. Windows 10 Update bricks a lot of systems (at least one a day is handled by the Microsoft retail store) 2. The solution first is to try every viable option in the recovery console, and then try it with a new Windows 10 ISO and then with an old Windows 10 ISO. 3. If that fails, then try to recover the boot records with bcdedit. When/if that fails, you simply start over after backing up your data, where you "should" be able to mount the HDD (I was able to) to save your data with testdisk or knoppix or ddrescue or PhotoRec or Recuva, etc. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...t_device_1.jpg In my case, it mounted just fine - although Knoppix gave some weird errors but I'm not too worried because after buying SATA and power cables, I now have two terabyte HDDs in my laptop. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...t_device_2.jpg |
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