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> Came here to say the same. The problem is they seem to be hiding information (for some reason):

Back when I worked at a computer shop I've had customers come to the shop with a hand-written report of the Windows XP BSOD message; like, all of this.[1] They were always very nice people by the way.

Also, all the text is boilerplate and 100% irrelevant to the actual error (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME). It's not going to be fixed by a Windows update (which you can't install since you can't boot the thing) or disabling "caching" BIOS options. Not showing any text instead of that is probably better. It wouldn't be too hard to make a error message → useful description map for common problems like this, but good error messages/help was never Windows' strong point...

[1]: https://neosmart.net/wiki/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013/08...



I agree the old BSOD's were too verbose. I'd like a return to "error [number]: [short description]".




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