Hello everyone.
I was trying to clean up my PC and remove files to make some free space. I think I may have deleted something important by mistake. Not 100% sure if this is what started my troubles but seems likely.
I started getting a variety of BSODs while playing several different games. Errors included issues with MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and several others.
I tried to troubleshoot this for awhile using memory scanning, registry repairs, driver updates, windows updates, etc. Nothing worked. Sometimes when trying to restore to a previous point, I would get a BSOD before it could complete!
I resorted to trying to refresh or restore Windows. I grabbed my original Windows 8.1 disc and tried to fix the issue. Now I am stuck in some kind of loop.
1) If I restart the computer, I get sent to the System Restore menu. From this menu, I cannot refresh, restore, or take any other action successfully. I cannot even load from a Restore Point. If I exit to Windows from here, it says it is starting Automatic Repair then goes right back to the same menu.
2) If I boot from my Windows 8.1 disc, I am able to get into the install menu and enter my key. Between Upgrade and Custom Install, upgrade tells me to remove the disc and restart again. If I do that, I end up in the same loop. If I do Custom Install I am presented with three partitions and am told that I cannot install Windows on any of them. It says it has an MBR partition table, On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT discs. When I build the PC last year, I set my SSD as my main system drive and installed Windows to that. Not sure why it cannot do it now...?
So now I am at a total loss. I seem to have made my problem worse because now I cannot even make it to the desktop, regardless of safe mode, booting from disc, etc.
Any help would be amazing. Thank you!
I was trying to clean up my PC and remove files to make some free space. I think I may have deleted something important by mistake. Not 100% sure if this is what started my troubles but seems likely.
I started getting a variety of BSODs while playing several different games. Errors included issues with MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and several others.
I tried to troubleshoot this for awhile using memory scanning, registry repairs, driver updates, windows updates, etc. Nothing worked. Sometimes when trying to restore to a previous point, I would get a BSOD before it could complete!
I resorted to trying to refresh or restore Windows. I grabbed my original Windows 8.1 disc and tried to fix the issue. Now I am stuck in some kind of loop.
1) If I restart the computer, I get sent to the System Restore menu. From this menu, I cannot refresh, restore, or take any other action successfully. I cannot even load from a Restore Point. If I exit to Windows from here, it says it is starting Automatic Repair then goes right back to the same menu.
2) If I boot from my Windows 8.1 disc, I am able to get into the install menu and enter my key. Between Upgrade and Custom Install, upgrade tells me to remove the disc and restart again. If I do that, I end up in the same loop. If I do Custom Install I am presented with three partitions and am told that I cannot install Windows on any of them. It says it has an MBR partition table, On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT discs. When I build the PC last year, I set my SSD as my main system drive and installed Windows to that. Not sure why it cannot do it now...?
So now I am at a total loss. I seem to have made my problem worse because now I cannot even make it to the desktop, regardless of safe mode, booting from disc, etc.
Any help would be amazing. Thank you!
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