![]() ![]() Either way, that problem is the least of my worries now. I've since found out that I disabled a bios setting, probably because of the point in boot at which I pressed the network button. Just peachy so far.Įxcept then the network adapter had vanished from Windows. Our connection can be funky, so I pressed the network button on my computer, and, sure enough, Windows 8 booted. My PC was taking a long time to boot up and I know that some times that happens when the computer is trying to log in online but the network is down. I'm confident this problem can be fixed without doing so, but I've only managed to find bits and pieces around the internet about how to do so. I absolutely cannot reformat this computer - as far as time and resources go, I absolutely cannot. I have the same probem - my drive is locked. Booting to an OS unlocks the drive if shutdown correctly. ![]() I suspect what is happening is a poor shutdown of 8 is leaving the drive locked. Thanks for all the help and hopefully this helps someone else. Upon rebooting Win 8 came up fine.Īdded the safe mode and turned on System restore adding a restore point. I said yes, it black screened and rebooted. It threw an error stating a restore point had not been created was I sure I wanted to perform a system restore point to an earlier time anyway. After booting I decided to see if system restore would work knowing full well it was a different OS and should not. I decided to break out the Win 7 DVD and scrap Win 8. Figured this may have been an overheating issue so left the PC overnight, still wouldn't boot past the just "advanced options BS menu" All the same symptoms, we had not added Safe Mode to the menu so this was not an option. Just thought I'd post what we experienced. My sons HP ENVY had this problem and I found this thread. ![]()
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