Constant BSOD from iastorA.sys 0x10~7e or 0x10~7e

essenbe said:

Good luck with it. I hope the BSODs are gone. Just let me know, if you would. You are more than welcome for any help I gave, but it was you who did all of the work. It is rather strange about the data you wrote to the external drive. I really don't have an answer for that one.

Okay here's the deal - it was on all day yesterday without issue. This morning I turned it on, set the power options for NEVER shutdown when plugged in, made sure it was plugged in, reserved W10 and left for the MS Store. When I got back it was shutdown. I ran WhoCrashed and the last blue screen was 7-28, so for some reason, it must have just shutdown by itself. I did not get a "Windows has recovered..." error message when I booted it up.

The GWX taskbar white-window-icon is gone, but it did say Windows is Reserved when I went into Windows Update. So, I went online and got the W10 disk creator download from MS, and am upgrading it now. Am I pushing my luck?

essenbe said:

That's difficult to say, but I would think if you were to clean install it, probably not. But, I did that and did the upgrade with the Media Creation tool and it would not activate for me. I reverted back to 7 and am going to do it with the GWX icon. I think the way it works and would be best for you is do the upgrade, activate it. Then if you have problems, you can clean install it with no problems. I can't say about Windows 10, but normally if you just upgrade, any problems you have before will be carried over. A clean install will get rid of whatever problems you have. I know you said you were trying to avoid that, so I would try the upgrade is my suggestion.

Yes, activation was a little flaky - took several tries, and reboots before it would activate. But it's activated now, and running well, and no BSODs - totally stable. I think we have it solved!

I found out that *all* her data is on the computer, and only *some* of it is on the extHDD, so it's a good thing I didn't have to clean install. This extHDD is nearly full, so she will get a larger extHDD and I will set her up with a complete, automatic backup scheme.

Thanks Essenbe for all your help - I would have never figured that one out on my own!

essenbe said:

You're more than welcome for any help I gave. I hope it is fixed for good. Give it a few days to be sure, then please marked this thread as solved, whenever you think it is fixed. If you have more problems, just post back here. But, I do hope it works for you. I am going like the T Shirt too.

I think she will be collecting it tomorrow. If it gives her any more problems, I'll have to get it back. But, I think it's stable now - it seems fine to me anyway.

If Dude is sending his t-shirt to Kari, I will send mine to you. Kari must learn to share.

essenbe said:

No, I was only joking and giving Kari a hard time. You should never take me too serious. I like to joke around. I do hope the computer works fine. If not, I'll be here. Thanks for the Rep too. I really appreciate it.

She's collecting the lappy tomorrow, so, I'll need a few days to see if she has any issues...and for her to learn Windows10, which I put on there for her. If everything's okay, I should be closing this within a week.

Thanks again Essenbe - you really saved the day!

essenbe said:

I don't know how old she is, but I put it on my 13 year old Granddaughter's computer. She looked at it for about 2 minutes and had everything changed and set up. I had to ask her how she did it. These kids just look at stuff and understand it instinctively. Me, not too much.

I hear ya! She is my age, so we both have a bit of a learning curve sometimes...my kid, otoh, is like your granddaughter! (and yeah, I have to go to him sometimes for help...I admit it!) :)