Hello,
I've had quite a few problems with Windows 8 since I installed it. After a few times where it has said it is corrupted and I've used a Windows 8 recovery USB (and many hours) to finally get back at my files so I could transfer them and then do a fresh install of Windows 8, I am now bored of this procedure which has occurred about 3 times in 2 months.
I am assuming it is a problem with Windows 8 rather than my SSD only because nothing else ever seems to be corrupted except for winload.exe. When this problem occurs, I get a start-up BSOD saying that my operating system cannot load because winload.exe is corrupted. After going through the USB recovery process the most recent time, I managed to Automatically Repair and get straight back into Windows 8 pretty fast (compared to the other times it has happened), but I think that is because it has created a Windows To Go USB.
Basically, if I take the USB out, the OS freezes until I put it back in and when I do that it gives me a message telling me not to take it out until I restart. I assume when I restart it will be attempting to rebuild the startup files such as winload.exe from the USB stick. Over the last few days I've been using it without the USB but then this morning, Windows 8 froze up, I had to hard reset and then needed the USB stick again.
Has anyone else had the problem of winload.exe dying every few weeks? And if so, how do I solve the problem?
I thought that it might be something to do with Windows thinking I want to run this as Windows To Go and therefore when it made the USB stick a Windows To Go USB Stick it hasn't even attempted to repair the Windows 8 on the SSD. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Blekk
I've had quite a few problems with Windows 8 since I installed it. After a few times where it has said it is corrupted and I've used a Windows 8 recovery USB (and many hours) to finally get back at my files so I could transfer them and then do a fresh install of Windows 8, I am now bored of this procedure which has occurred about 3 times in 2 months.
I am assuming it is a problem with Windows 8 rather than my SSD only because nothing else ever seems to be corrupted except for winload.exe. When this problem occurs, I get a start-up BSOD saying that my operating system cannot load because winload.exe is corrupted. After going through the USB recovery process the most recent time, I managed to Automatically Repair and get straight back into Windows 8 pretty fast (compared to the other times it has happened), but I think that is because it has created a Windows To Go USB.
Basically, if I take the USB out, the OS freezes until I put it back in and when I do that it gives me a message telling me not to take it out until I restart. I assume when I restart it will be attempting to rebuild the startup files such as winload.exe from the USB stick. Over the last few days I've been using it without the USB but then this morning, Windows 8 froze up, I had to hard reset and then needed the USB stick again.
Has anyone else had the problem of winload.exe dying every few weeks? And if so, how do I solve the problem?
I thought that it might be something to do with Windows thinking I want to run this as Windows To Go and therefore when it made the USB stick a Windows To Go USB Stick it hasn't even attempted to repair the Windows 8 on the SSD. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Blekk
