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Solve : Corrupted windows installation on tablet? |
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Answer» Greetings everybody. I have a problem with an Windows installation on my tablet which I don't know how to fix but have a feeling it's something obvious which I missed. So here's the story: It might show no text because its failing to mount the SSD. Everything up to that point is coming from your Thumbdrive. When it then calls out to the SSD there is no response and so no text shown I am guessing. I have seen similar issues to this with some windows installs in the past on desktops when its an older system in which I have missing SATA controller driver etc and so the HDD is completely missing to the OS installation.Personally I don't think it fails to mount the SSD since it does start booting, that means it sees that the Windows installation is on the SSD. Am I missing something here? Quote At this point if no important data is on it, I'd use a tool to delete all partitions/volumes on the SSD so its completely clean. Then try the thumb drive again to see if it then is able to mount the SSD and install further.That's my last resort since then I would LOSE the genuine Windows that came with the tablet. No serial was provided with the tablet upon buying it. Quote If this isnt the case with the SSD not responding correctly to the Thumbdrive recovery media then it could be a corrupt recovery media in which you can contact the mfr of the computer tablet to have them send you the recovery media set for free if under warranty or a small fee if out of warranty etc.I have already sent them an email asking for the serial key or some other way to activate a new Windows install. When they respond I'll ask a followup question about the recovery. Thanks for the tip!Hindsight is 20/20...however deleting the Recovery Partition was a bad idea... I would contact the manuf. and see if they will ship you a Factory Restore DVD... Quote from: patio on March 01, 2015, 07:59:42 AM Hindsight is 20/20...however deleting the Recovery Partition was a bad idea...I know but I hoped I could restore it from the pen drive. Obviously that's not the case here. Quote I would contact the manuf. and see if they will ship you a Factory Restore DVD...Will do, thanks. I already sent them the email asking about the serial key so I'll ask them when and if they reply.Usually the DVD's are a small charge...+shipping. Best of Luck. Quote from: patio on March 01, 2015, 09:17:04 AM Usually the DVD's are a small charge...+shipping.Thank you. While I'm waiting for the response from Modecom, does anyone have an idea what happened here or how to fix it? When I checked my tablet's SSD with diskpart, both partitions were there and I didn't see any errors. Both of them are there and occupying space, I don't think partition magic even did anything. I'd say you wonked the partition table itself somehow...did you interrupt the process or lose power when running it ? ? Th e partition sizes aren't even close to matching up in size... It'll likely require a wipe and factory restore to get it back... Quote from: patio on March 01, 2015, 11:16:36 AM I'd say you wonked the partition table itself somehow...did you interrupt the process or lose power when running it ? ?No, it was connected to the charger while I was doing that. Did I interrupt the process? I don't think there was any process to begin with. I opened up partition magic, marked the recovery partition for deletion and extended my primary partition to the full size. When I clicked "apply", partition magic asked me to restart the tablet since the recovery partition was in use and it couldn't be deleted. I clicked "yes", allowing it to restart. Windows shut down normally but couldn't boot anymore. I don't think partition magic did anything there since the boot sequence looked normal. Shutdown -> UEFI Screen -> Windows boot screen. Quote Th e partition sizes aren't even close to matching up in size...UH, they seem to be... When I add up 8180 and 6500 it equates to 14680 which is pretty close to 14gb (14336mb) shown on the "Size" column of Disk 0. Quote It'll likely require a wipe and factory restore to get it back...Ah well, I hope not but we'll see eventually...Add up the sizes in table #1... Quote from: patio on March 01, 2015, 11:41:09 AM Add up the sizes in table #1...Table #1 (the top table) shows disks currently connected to my tablet. Disk 0 is my SSD Disk 1 is the pen drive I used to boot the Windows install from Disk 2 is the 32gb SD Card I use for storing data If you're taking about the free space column then yes, it is weird that all my disks have zero free space but the same thing occurs on my main computer and it works completely normally so I just rounded it up as a bug in diskpart.Bumping with update. I sent the mail to Modecom about the recovery, asking them if they could mail me a CD or an .iso file of the recovery and this was their response: Quote Hello.So the onboard recovery doesn't work and Modecom isn't planning on sending me one either. Please don't tell me I'm s**t out of luck, guys. Quote from: CrashBX on March 01, 2015, 07:31:58 AM ...I recently bought a Modecom FreeTAB 8010 x86 tablet and it was all fine and dandy for the first few days but eventually I started running out of space on the system drive. I noticed that a huge portion of my internal memory was used up by the recovery partition (almost 6gb). In order to try to make the best use of the already measly 16gb SSD that's inside the tablet, I opened partition wizard from Hiren's boot CD and marked the recovery partition for deletion. ...I have an Asus T100 Windows tablet. You made a huge error which is not repairable. You should have left the Recovery Partition intact. It's not an SSD, but an EMMC. No 3rd party utilities can manage these. Windows 8.1 w/Bing uses Bit Locker which makes things even worse. Onboard recovery will never work now that you have buggered things up. I'm afraid you are SOL. Send it back for warranty repair/replacement. Quote from: Computer_Commando on March 03, 2015, 04:24:40 PM I have an Asus T100 Windows tablet. You made a huge error which is not repairable. You should have left the Recovery Partition intact. It's not an SSD, but an eMMC. No 3rd party utilities can manage these. Windows 8.1 w/Bing uses Bit Locker which makes things even worse. Onboard recovery will never work now that you have buggered things up.Thanks, you pretty much closed the case. That's what I feared the most but I'll still try one thing before sending it in. Here I found a way to recover the original serial key from the tablet so I'm planning to recover it using command line in windows recovery and then just reinstall Windows with that key this weekend. Would that work?It has to be able to boot to Windows to use that tool...i was under the impression it doesn't. |
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