- May 19, 2018
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So I have a serious issue with this computer. It is an RCA 2in1 W101 first gen. It sat dormant for a couple of years not being used and just recently I decided to charge it up and try to use it again. So, when I booted it up, it went into a sort of recovery mode saying it was repairing windows (10). It failed that numerous times when I restarted it, in denial that my windows files were corrupt. The only kind of code I could get from it was "Log file: C:\windows\system32\logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt".
So naturally I googled a fix for it and ended up running a chkdsk. After getting through 55% of the files, the process reached a halt and after about three minutes, told me that the file it was currently on was unreadable. The ETA for the process was now 15:00:00. It spent about another three minutes on the next file before giving me the same error, except the ETA now was above 20:00:00. File after file it painfully dragged along with the ETA climbing above 60:00:00. I looked up to see if it was safe to stop a chkdsk, found out it was not, and decided to stop it anyways as I was not very concerned for the files on the computer which seemed to already be corrupt.
Now when I boot I go into the on-board EFI thing. It does have a device map, but it does not recognize the drive. So I used a USB boot drive to try and at least reinstall windows on the computer. Even after going into the BIOS, selecting the drive to boot from, disabling booting from EFI, and boot overriding to the USB, it fails to boot. It is not the USB drive itself because I can boot off of it on my main PC. I've tried over and over with every configuration I could get to and it refuses to boot on the USB. Even if I disable booting into EFI it still boots into the EFI. I have no idea what to do and I cannot find any answers online.
So naturally I googled a fix for it and ended up running a chkdsk. After getting through 55% of the files, the process reached a halt and after about three minutes, told me that the file it was currently on was unreadable. The ETA for the process was now 15:00:00. It spent about another three minutes on the next file before giving me the same error, except the ETA now was above 20:00:00. File after file it painfully dragged along with the ETA climbing above 60:00:00. I looked up to see if it was safe to stop a chkdsk, found out it was not, and decided to stop it anyways as I was not very concerned for the files on the computer which seemed to already be corrupt.
Now when I boot I go into the on-board EFI thing. It does have a device map, but it does not recognize the drive. So I used a USB boot drive to try and at least reinstall windows on the computer. Even after going into the BIOS, selecting the drive to boot from, disabling booting from EFI, and boot overriding to the USB, it fails to boot. It is not the USB drive itself because I can boot off of it on my main PC. I've tried over and over with every configuration I could get to and it refuses to boot on the USB. Even if I disable booting into EFI it still boots into the EFI. I have no idea what to do and I cannot find any answers online.
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