LJB
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I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
I have a big session this morning (in a few hours).. Last night my Win 10 x64 machine just started throwing blue screens, restarting and going nowhere with it. So, having learnt my lesson in the past, I shut down and walked away. This morning I started up and it gave me all kinds of messages about Windows can not start, with several repair options including a system restore, reinstall etc etc... I opted for System Restore... and waited... and waited... After about 20 minutes Windows told me that it could not restore. I rebooted anyways, at which point my Advanced System Care (Iobit) kicked in on the boot and started repairing page files, boot files and whatever else it does.. A few minutes later the machine came to life and once Windows was running again, it happily told me that System Restore had in fact worked... All I can say is What The Heck?!?!?
post edited by LJB - 2015/11/03 00:10:59
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Doktor Avalanche 
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 08:39:05
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When you next get a chance...
Backup.
Run chkdsk /R on your hard drives.
Look up DISM and SFC in windows (assuming you haven't come across it).
Cheers..
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 08:41:43
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Wow, that's scary Ludwig.....especially for you having clients.
Did you happen to see what the BSD error that caused it?
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 08:49:58
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That's the other thing, check the windows event viewer and get the exact BSOD error message, post it here if you want. Cheers..
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 10:59:32
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I did not take note of the errors, the machine was restarting and whatever too fast for that. 184 errors logged in the last 24 hours - none of them say BSOD though. Sorry, I'm a complete ignoramus in this regard! :O)
I had more of the same today and ended up removing all drives except C:. Then I slowly got the machine working one drive at a time, plugging the drives in from SATA 0 (C drive) onwards and making sure boot priorities were correct. Seems OK for the last few hours but honestly not sure what was the cause.
The fact that the machine is a 2nd Gen i7 (Intel 2600) that has been running at least 50 hours per week since I bought it (5 years ago) probably tells part of the story right?! :O)
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 11:14:35
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Possibly, you can do a memtest (64 bit) to rule out a memory issue.....also, sometimes a failing power supply can also cause odd crashes.
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 11:46:56
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LJB
I have a big session this morning (in a few hours).. Last night my Win 10 x64 machine just started throwing blue screens, restarting and going nowhere with it. So, having learnt my lesson in the past, I shut down and walked away.
This morning I started up and it gave me all kinds of messages about Windows can not start, with several repair options including a system restore, reinstall etc etc... I opted for System Restore... and waited... and waited...
After about 20 minutes Windows told me that it could not restore. I rebooted anyways, at which point my Advanced System Care (Iobit) kicked in on the boot and started repairing page files, boot files and whatever else it does..
A few minutes later the machine came to life and once Windows was running again, it happily told me that System Restore had in fact worked...
All I can say is What The Heck?!?!?
Lol i nearly died reading your thread title loooollll sorryy ....
post edited by Zo - 2015/11/03 11:57:18
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/03 11:59:20
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Sounds like the c: drive where win 10 is installed is failing.
Do what Dok said about running chkdsk /R.
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ProjectM
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/04 06:31:05
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The ease of use of disc images in Win7 was excellent! I always kept a current image of my system disk on an external SSD. In your situation I would just plug it in and have the computer restore from that. It took around 5 minutes to fix it and keeping the image updated after any major OS update or new software, it was never any issues. Once, my SSD system disk was failing and I just swapped it out with the SSD with the system image. Worked flawless.
In Win8 this wasn't as easy without digging around and constantly telling Windows to screw it self and do as I say. The system restore functions were really not that good. It's actually one of the reasons why I sold my DAW. Haven't missed it, even for a second! I don't know, but I'm guessing that Win10 is simmilar to Win8? Or has the disk image thingy been removed completely?
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/04 12:08:34
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ProjectM
The ease of use of disc images in Win7 was excellent! ...
In Win8 this wasn't as easy without digging around and constantly telling Windows to screw it self and do as I say. The system restore functions were really not that good. It's actually one of the reasons why I sold my DAW.
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Why does it have to be built-in to the OS? There are tons of free imaging programs that are better and just as easy to use (a few vendors off the top of my head: Paragon, EaseUS, Aomei and Macrium). The key is to make a bootable disc (or flash drive) and backup/restore off that. Bulletproof, as long your hardware isn't failing. I would never rely on System Restore, which IMO is, quite frankly, crap.
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/04 12:15:18
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still running on WinXP.....
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/04 12:35:57
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ProjectM
The ease of use of disc images in Win7 was excellent! ...
In Win8 this wasn't as easy without digging around and constantly telling Windows to screw it self and do as I say. The system restore functions were really not that good. It's actually one of the reasons why I sold my DAW.
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Why does it have to be built-in to the OS? There are tons of free imaging programs that are better and just as easy to use (a few vendors off the top of my head: Paragon, EaseUS, Aomei and Macrium).
The key is to make a bootable disc (or flash drive) and backup/restore off that. Bulletproof, as long your hardware isn't failing.
I would never rely on System Restore, which IMO is, quite frankly, crap.
That's a good question, and my answer is that my experience is quite opposite to yours. I found that all 3rd party disk image software sucked. I tried 5 or 6 different, paid and free, then I discovered the function in Win 7 and it worked the way I like it to do; simple and easy from right under my finger tips. And I never had an issue. The built in system restore in Win8 was horrible. I'm refuse to use functions like that - unless it's my very last resort.
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Re: I nearly died (a Win 10 Story)..
2015/11/04 18:56:26
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I always have SMART enabled and run SMART tests. Download SeaTools.
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