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Thread ID: 151012	2022-11-30 21:40:00	Boot Problem Win 11	piroska (17583)	Press F1

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1489493	2022-11-30 21:40:00	So sons PC suddenly wouldn't boot. It (after some fiddling with bios) is in process of checking E: it says, it did this straight on starting, not going to Windows at all. Why the hell does a suspect drive, other than boot have anything to do with it? He has C: an SSD which is boot and windows. D: data, programs E: games and music	piroska (17583)
1489494	2022-11-30 21:49:00	I've seen that happen where a crook storage drive was preventing a system from booting. Disconnect the drive & see if it boots.	Driftwood (5551)
1489495	2022-11-30 23:40:00	My money goes with the CMOS battery Had this happen recently on a desktop that had not been on in a few months Hit the start button momentarily started then died then would not start at all	Lawrence (2987)
1489496	2022-12-01 00:02:00	My money goes with the CMOS battery l It has not been off for ages, it isn't even old, 3 years. Mine is 12 in a months time and battery is perfect. He removed the battery, put it back and managed to get it to boot and it went into this checking and has been there since last night.	piroska (17583)
1489497	2022-12-01 02:50:00	W11 appears to check all drives regardless of being the boot or not. If its been flagged as dirty or there are file corruptions, then it will scan and attempt to repair. If the drives to bad then it will take ages or wont complete at all. Easy way to tell stop the scan disconnect the suspect drive and see what happens. If its OK then replace the drive after saving its data. Once it boots there are ways to stop it checking - Have a read www.easeus.com BUT its only going to fail at some point, better to fix while you can than wait for it to break completely.	wainuitech (129)
1489498	2022-12-01 17:44:00	You can't just cancel the disk check? You could in Windows XP...	Agent_24 (57)
1489499	2022-12-01 19:16:00	You can't just cancel the disk check? You could in Windows XP... You should be able to, BUT if its checking on every boot then there is a problem someplace, and apart from being a Pain to cancel every time, it WILL sooner or later cause even more problems. Better to fix then leave it. Bit like people who get told their HDD has Bad sectors and should be replaced, sooner or later it WILL fail and run the risk of losing data. Had that happen a few years back, told the Owner to back up NOW (or I can do it and replace the drive at the same time) as the drive will fail, they said they would do it later that day (and didn't). Sure enough about two weeks later - panic call drive totally failed, had to be sent to a proper data forensic recovery company as it was so bad, cost them around $900 and 3 weeks of worry to get 95% of the data back.	wainuitech (129)
1489500	2022-12-01 22:57:00	W11 appears to check all drives regardless of being the boot or not. If its been flagged as dirty or there are file corruptions, then it will scan and attempt to repair. . Yes. But why would a bad drive, with no files to do with Windows stop it booting altogether. he's since swapped it out, it had game files only. Steam games. So no loss...but a black screen??!	piroska (17583)
1489501	2022-12-02 01:12:00	Yes. But why would a bad drive, with no files to do with Windows stop it booting altogether. he's since swapped it out, it had game files only. Steam games. So no loss...but a black screen??! It more than likely means the drive had either bad sectors or some other sort of physical problem, windows tries to read it and gets stuck in doing so (empty or not) I had a few drives like that, even completely empty computer simply wouldn't boot if they were attached, and try connecting Via external Case, they would simply either lock up the computer as it tried to read the drive or not show at all, even in partitioning software.	wainuitech (129)
1489502	2022-12-03 07:03:00	Reminds me of how optical drives used to lock up a system for ages and also slow booting to a crawl if a damaged disk was inserted. Also I think maybe windows still has the ridiculous habit of hiding boot files on another drive if more than one disk is connected when it's installed. That's always annoyed me as one of the stupidest Ideas MS has come up with, it should at least give you the option to say not to do that during install if nothing else.	dugimodo (138)
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