I recently upgraded several parts of my PC, including switching to an MSI motherboard, upgrading to a 12th gen CPU, installing a new CPU cooler, and adding new RAM. The first startup went fine, but I forgot to install the necessary driver for the new CPU. Now, whenever I try to boot up, I get stuck in a loop with an error about an "ntfs system file". I've tried various commands and BIOS tweaks to fix it, but nothing seems to work. I'd really appreciate any advice on how to get my PC running again!
2 Answers
You might not need to worry about the CPU driver since in most cases they get auto-installed. It sounds like the issue could be related to your hard drive. Have you checked for any error messages in the Device Manager?
It sounds like your hard drive could be the culprit. You mentioned that you didn't do a clean install after the upgrades, and that might be necessary now. It looks like you might need to perform a clean installation of Windows to resolve this issue, even though I know that's not ideal.
Sorry if I misused "CPU driver" terminology! I'm not very tech-savvy and typically rely on my family for help. I did encounter some minor startup issues before this, but after running some commands supposedly meant to fix them, I now hit this problem.