When I restarted my computer this morning, I saw that BSOD with a INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
message, preventing me from booting Windows.
I tried many things :
- The automatic repair takes quite a long time but finds nothing.
- When I try go to the screen allowing me to choose some boot options (F1->F9), I try to boot in safe mode (F4) and at the moment I press the key, there is a black scree then half a second after I get back to the choosing screen.
- Eventually, when I try the automatic repair, I get this message:
Windows\system32\drivers\nvstor.sys is corrupt
(it seems that nvstor is a driver for a nForce motherboard, but it isn't my case). - When I use a bootable disk of Windows to use the console, I open the automatic repair log it says an update was not working.
- I tried many console commands like
Bootrec /fixmbr, Bootrec /fixboo, Bootrec /scanos Bootrec /rebuildbcd
without success. - My OS is on an SSD and my data is on a HDD, so I tried to disconnect the HDD and only keeping the SSD with no more success.
I think it is related: the reason why I restarted my computer was because I was unable to access the "hosts
" file and, in fact, I was able to access none of the critical system files despite the fact I was the Administrator with an elevated rights console. Indeed, it's really strange.
Do you have any suggestion about how to fix this?