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    AW15 R2 W10 Boot Failure: Your PC/Device needs to be repaired. File: \BCD

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by etern4l, Jun 1, 2016.

  1. etern4l

    etern4l Notebook Virtuoso

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    I've had my AW15 R2 fail to boot twice with this message. Recovery is a bit painful, requires booting from recovery stick, and using a few bootrec commands.

    Any ideas why this could be happening in the first place?
     
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    Was it like this on arrival? How long have you had the laptop? Can you take a screen shot of the error?

    Have you tried running the ePSA Pre-boot System Assessment? (smash the F12 key on reboot, should bring it up)

    Do the lights flash? Have you tried running in safemode?

    More information please.
     
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    etern4l Notebook Virtuoso

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    It wasn't like that on arrival, have had it for about 6 months, screenshot attached. Just to be clear, I managed to recover from this completely - the laptop is working normally, however, I do wonder what might be repeatedly causing a serious boot record corruption. Will do the ePSA assessment and report back if anything is noteworthy.
     

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    i had this error before and was because i tryed to change icons from the system or trying to change things in regedit
     
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    That's really weird. I suspect co-incidence. Anyway, neither applies to the cases I've seen.
     
    etern4l, Jun 4, 2016
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