The update to windows broke Flight simulator X , so I finally got around to have a go at fixing it and stuck the disks in and reinstalled it, Fine worked okay, following night switched notebook on and whoa a blue screen announcing "Error Code: 0xc0000034 in Windows 10 – Boot Configuration Data file missing required information"
Mmm tried to repair windows which threw up 'couldn't continue' so out comes my pen drive with a live copy of Linux and have a look at the file system, both disks were unmounted. A quick look on the net and there have been loads of people suffering the same or very similar problem's.
Most suggested a clean install of Windows 10 and just accept the loss of data. I removed the SSD drive which is just used as a cache, copied all the data from the C disk using the live Linux to another external drive and then attempted to fix the laptop, I did succeed to get it working but found that the flight sim folder seemed to have disappeared along with the boot configuration files.
But it worked! but much slower, before it booted up in about 30 seconds, with the fix it took up to two minutes or longer and started randomly with either of the two accounts I had on it.
Then last Saturday evening, as many others have reported the fix failed and up came the BCD error again.
I then reformatted both drives and reloaded windows.
The godsend is live Linux, I once 'rescued' a former employers computer with Linux after he loaded a dodgy 'free' office program! I then taught him how to make backups as he had all his business on one hard drive with no backups!
Microsoft have seen the success of Google and are trying to turn their operating system into something along the lines of android that along with the drive to control what you can load onto your computer, my HP notebook has windows 8.1 embedded in the bios!
My old dell laptop runs Linux and has done so for a long time without any problems.
I note that our latest world beater super hospital still shows Windows XP Professional on its computer screens!!!!
Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 14/10/2016 19:03:01