Hey all, I will try to make this concise and to the point but include everything necessary.
I have a custom built PC running W8 that is installed on a SSD. I also use another HD for most of my storage. Anyway, I have it plugged into a surge protector. I found out that you can still put PC into hibernate mode in W8 even though it's tricky to do. I did that last night when I went to bed. My rig has an issue with waking itself up from sleep or hibernation though and popped back on as I was going to sleep last night.
Got annoyed, unplugged surge protector from wall (it was done booting up by the time I did), and figured I would plug back in tomorrow and attempt to fix the wake up glitch.
Plugged surge protector back in this morning and found it wouldn't boot up. Tried both boot options including the SSD where OS is installed and I still get "Reboot and select proper Boot device" message.
Inserted W8 recovery disk. Refresh of Windows says SSD where OS is installed is locked. Got into command prompt and ran chkdsk for both SSD and HD and both said no errors found. And I tried the "Automatically repair startup errors" button which ran but to no avail. Still can't boot up.
Hesitant to do another clean reinstall unless I absolutely have to, especially for such a stupid hangup.
To clarify, I've never run into this problem before and I did not change anything significant last night that would've caused this error.
Any ideas? Thank you in advance!!
I have a custom built PC running W8 that is installed on a SSD. I also use another HD for most of my storage. Anyway, I have it plugged into a surge protector. I found out that you can still put PC into hibernate mode in W8 even though it's tricky to do. I did that last night when I went to bed. My rig has an issue with waking itself up from sleep or hibernation though and popped back on as I was going to sleep last night.
Got annoyed, unplugged surge protector from wall (it was done booting up by the time I did), and figured I would plug back in tomorrow and attempt to fix the wake up glitch.
Plugged surge protector back in this morning and found it wouldn't boot up. Tried both boot options including the SSD where OS is installed and I still get "Reboot and select proper Boot device" message.
Inserted W8 recovery disk. Refresh of Windows says SSD where OS is installed is locked. Got into command prompt and ran chkdsk for both SSD and HD and both said no errors found. And I tried the "Automatically repair startup errors" button which ran but to no avail. Still can't boot up.
Hesitant to do another clean reinstall unless I absolutely have to, especially for such a stupid hangup.
To clarify, I've never run into this problem before and I did not change anything significant last night that would've caused this error.
Any ideas? Thank you in advance!!
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