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Any assistance appreciated.
My partner [with a masters in software development] has apparently never heard of Fn-lock on a keyboard, so last night was trying to find a way to disable it. She ended up in BIOS, apparently made no changes as there was nothing relevant, exited without saving, and now the PC won't boot. It goes straight from the POST page to saying "Starting automatic repair", then into the blue "Your computer failed to start correctly". I can't boot via "Start up Settings" in UEFI to try safe mode etc.
I've reset BIOS to defaults with no luck.
I've run SFC / scan now, which does say it's found and repaired corrupt files, but I run into the same problem on the next boot.
I've run chkdsk, chkdsk /f, chkdsk /r, and chkdsk /r /scan, none of which return any results.
I've used a USB recovery drive which fails to achieve anything.
Unfortunately I have no recovery image or restore point to fall back on.
It is an older SSD and I initially thought maybe it's just failed coincidentally, but since running chkdsk and it coming back unremarkable I'm not sure that's the problem.
Running W11. Some hardware changes a couple months ago, happy to elaborate on request but I don't think it's relevant. Despite this I've tried removing everything removable, one at a time. No dice.
Any ideas?