crocs1

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I had a BSOD yesterday , caused by ntfs.sys , the harddrives were checked by HD sentinel and are in excellent condition,

I am using windows 10 pro , upgraded from win 8.1 pro on intel i5 3450 based pc .

During first reboot, windows performed an auto disk check .

When i booted into windows the following issues were faced :

1) Start button wasnt working
2) Realtek Lan adaptor was missing , i had to use usb wifi adapter to get online .
3) i could not open any pics on c drive, would get an error that the apps trial had expired .
4) System restore did not work , access to system volume was denied , asked to perform chkdsk /f , chkdsk /f reported no errors .

After googling i tried this

This did not complete successfully, there were some errors in red lines but it fixed the photo app issue

Also removing the lan driver from device manager and letting it reinstall fixed the lan issue, my VMware lan adapters are still missing .

The start menu button is still not working and system restore too, and dont what else could be broken which i haven't found out yet .

Please let me know what can be done .
 
Solution
You can try and repair with one of the following, you will want to run both from an elevated command prompt. Since you don't have a start button press Windows key + r and type cmd and press enter, then hold shift + ctrl and click on the cmd icon in the taskbar. This should launch an elevated command prompt.

  • sfc /scannow
  • dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

It wouldn't hurt to run both and sometimes you need to run each, reboot and run them again up to 3 times.
I have done a fresh install , i chose i dont have a key and it got activated automatically like you said but i am confused about the keys, I have a windows 8 key and a media center key , when i checked the key through magic jellybean key finder it showed another key , so which would i have to use in case i have to get it activated on phone if needed ?
 
so which would i have to use in case i have to get it activated on phone if needed ?
you should never need to do phone activation but basically what happens is this. You upgrade your windows 8.1 machine and as long as it's a Genuine copy as well as activated your issued what's called a 'Digital entitlement' . This is your Windows 10 licence and is stored online.
The Windows 10 licence is OEM meaning it's tied to the machine you upgraded on. Even if your Windows 8.1 licence was retail Windows 10 will still remain an OEM copy.
As I said you should never really find yourself in the situation of having to phone activate no matter how many times you clean install.