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My computer was running Windows 10. Here are my specs:
2 x 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB Internal SSD
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR, 8GB GDDR5X
1 x Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz
1 x ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Motherboards - Intel
1 x PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 750W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire Intel Haswell Ready Power Supply
I was using the PC to listen to Spotify when it froze. I did a hard restart and I got the message 'Stop code: UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME'
Looking up this issue, it seems that some file got corrupted and the solution is to reinstall Windows. I still have my original instalation disc. When I put it in my Apple Superdrive and plug it in, it returns 'Reboot and Select a proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key'. I then create a bootable drive to try that way using the image found Link Removed. I first try with Boot Camp Assist but I get the same issue. I then use this series of commands in the terminal in order to create another boot drive after formatting the drive as FAT through Disk Utility.
This is the lines used with all returned text.
Each time I've done a manual select of whatever boot media I want to try. I'm not sure what else could be wrong here. My BIOS always sees the boot devices correctly but every time I try to use it, I get the same error message. Is there a better way to make boot media? Any ideas as to what could be wrong?
2 x 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB Internal SSD
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR, 8GB GDDR5X
1 x Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz
1 x ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Motherboards - Intel
1 x PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 750W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire Intel Haswell Ready Power Supply
I was using the PC to listen to Spotify when it froze. I did a hard restart and I got the message 'Stop code: UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME'
Looking up this issue, it seems that some file got corrupted and the solution is to reinstall Windows. I still have my original instalation disc. When I put it in my Apple Superdrive and plug it in, it returns 'Reboot and Select a proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key'. I then create a bootable drive to try that way using the image found Link Removed. I first try with Boot Camp Assist but I get the same issue. I then use this series of commands in the terminal in order to create another boot drive after formatting the drive as FAT through Disk Utility.
Bash:
diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=/Users/Eddie/Downloads/Win10_1809Oct_v2_English_x64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
diskutil eject /dev/disk2This is the lines used with all returned text.
Bash:
(base) Eddies-MacBook-Pro:~ Eddie$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 500.1 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +500.1 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 431.2 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 46.7 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 510.4 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.5 GB disk2
1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 15.5 GB disk2s1
/dev/disk4 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US... +5.4 GB disk4
/dev/disk5 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Boot Camp +2.8 GB disk5
(base) Eddies-MacBook-Pro:~ Eddie$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
(base) Eddies-MacBook-Pro:~ Eddie$ sudo dd if=/Users/Eddie/Downloads/Win10_1809Oct_v2_English_x64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
Password:
5138+1 records in
5138+1 records out
5388175360 bytes transferred in 3100.214460 secs (1738001 bytes/sec)
(base) Eddies-MacBook-Pro:~ Eddie$ diskutil eject /dev/disk2
Disk /dev/disk2 ejectedEach time I've done a manual select of whatever boot media I want to try. I'm not sure what else could be wrong here. My BIOS always sees the boot devices correctly but every time I try to use it, I get the same error message. Is there a better way to make boot media? Any ideas as to what could be wrong?