I’ve been running Windows 10 for a few weeks without major issues, but yesterday I got my first “CRITICAL PROCESS DIED” Blue Screen of Death:
I let it finish collecting data and restarting, but after that Windows 10 doesn’t boot anymore. It gets stuck at a DOS-like black screen with a rapidly blinking caret, but no prompt or mouse cursor.
From this screen, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete once reboots. Anything else I tried (clicking, typing) doesn’t seem to have any effect.
Rebooting in safe mode doesn’t seem to be an option since I’m using an SSD.
Before I give up and reinstall Windows 10 from scratch using a bootable USB stick, is there anything else I could try?
Best Answer
I ended up having to remove my primary SSD drive (where Windows was installed), attach it to another computer, format it, move it back to my original computer, and reinstall Windows. :(