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Installed Acronis 2016, tried to boot to USB, now BSOD after BSOD
I've just installed Acronis True Image 2016 to make a system backup so I can try a Windows 10 upgrade. I made a bootable ISO of the imaging tool it comes with because I was using a tutorial that said to do so (and then boot to that drive, use the backup utility, etc). I boot to the USB drive, but it turns out my mouse isn't detected, so I decide to just use the in-Windows backup utility. I go to reboot into Windows, and now I'm getting BSOD after BSOD... it's only up for about 2 seconds, so I can't get a great read, but I've managed to catch what the system seems to be failing on: pcw.sys ...not sure if this helps, but this is what seems to be causing it??
I try to boot into safe mode by pressing f8 on boot, but it doesn't bring up the option and just runs into the regular startup, BSOD, restart loop. Very frustrating. Any idea on how to fix this?