Windows error 0xC000000E, -1073741810

How do you install Linux alongside Windows 8 without corrupting the Windows 8 boot configuration?

In order to install Linux Mint 14 alongside Windows 8 I disabled UEFI and booted to a flash drive with the Linux image. I installed Linux, restarted the computer, and the GRUB boot loader appeared. When I selected Windows 8 I got the following error: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed [...] read more

Windows 8 CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED

I've been getting blue screens for several days now, only new thing I did was install a hard drive. I'll be doing anything, browsing the web, etc. and I get a blue screen, that says CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED on Windows 8 Pro. I checked the argument flags, its all 0's, which according [...] read more

Is it possible to boot Windows 8.1 without its own bootmanager?

I have been trying to come up with an easier way of installing Windows and Linux dual booting on my laptop, not necessarily in that order. What we generally have to do is install Windows first, and then install linux and allow GRUB to handle Windows. So what I'm trying [...] read more

How can I repair or install startup repair/system recovery after BCD corruption?

How should I go about repairing startup repair? Installing startup repair onto the hard drive, as if it was not originally there, would also fix this. In the hope that someone at a Windows-specific forum may have an idea, I've also posted this over at Microsoft Answers: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/install-system-repairfix-system-repair-boot-entry/6424eada-40b7-440e-9759-e2cc67aa3e3a Startup repair [...] read more

How do you recreate the System Recovery environment in Windows 7?

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium RTM (64-bit) and I want to take advantage of the system recovery tools (eg the Command Prompt) without using the Windows 7 DVD. My understanding is that this environment (WinRE) should be installed to your HDD by default as part of the Windows 7 [...] read more

HP ProLiant DL380 G3 Running Windows Server 2000 has crashed between 6-7:30am for the past 5 days

I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G3 running Windows Server 2000 that has been crashing everyday between 6-730am. This started when I changed out a failing hard drive 6 days ago. I have looked at the scheduled tasks which does not have anything pertaining to this issue. Below are the [...] read more

How to resolve error 0xc000000e

I shutdown my laptop the other night and I came back this morning and turned it on as usual, but I got this screen that said: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your [...] read more

VM with Windows Server won't boot after restoring from ghettoVCB backup

I'm using popular the ghettoVCB.sh script to backup my virtual server, but I have a problem with restoring virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 (VM with all flavor of Linux OS do not suffer this problem). After restoring VM with Windows Server 2012 - it won't boot - instead it [...] read more

"Windows failed to start" error while installing from USB

I want to install Windows 7 from a USB drive. I used Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool to move the files from the ISO file to the USB and after I insert the USB to the computer I get this message. > Windows Boot Manager > > Windows failed to [...] read more

Troubleshooting error 0xc000000e on Windows boot with Bitlocker full drive encryption

Note: I had originally thought that the BCD was the problem, which turned out to be wrong. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I originally had my laptop set up as follows: * A 300 GB partition with OS X 10.10 and native full-drive encryption (FileVault). * A 200 GB partition with Windows 10 and [...] read more

Windows 7 install issues with 2x3TB in RAID1

Not sure what I've done wrong. Built one PC before successfully in a similar way but this one seems to be struggling. I have the following components: * Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V/Pro Gen 3 (updated to latest firmware) * RAM: 16GB (2 x 8GB) * Power Supply: corsair HX850 * HDDs: [...] read more

Reoccuring Issue with Windows Fails to Start After Shutdown

Recently I have completed data migration from Intel i330 120GB SSD to Intel 535 240GB SSD using Intel Data Migration Software. Intel i330 was my first SSD which I also used for data migration from my HDD before that. After migration I booted SSD and all worked fine after I [...] read more

Unable to boot Windows 10 after cloning to SSD

I used AOMEI Backupper to clone my original drive to a new SSD. When I try to boot I get a blue screen that says: Recovery Your PC/Device needs to be repaired A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Error code 0xc000000e I tried to run Startup Repair [...] read more

access denied with bootrec /fixboot

I got a new SSD for my windows 10 home desktop computer recently. I used macrium to clone the HDD -> SSD and changed bios to boot from SSD. But when I tried cleaning the HDD I somehow corrupted something in the windows boot process (no idea how it happened, [...] read more

Installing Win8 in VHD: "could not load \Windows\system32\winload.exe"

I'm trying the install Win8 in a VHD using the Hanselman Guide All went well until the PC rebooted and Windows shows me this error: Your PC needs to be repaired The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. File:\windows\system32\winload.exe Error [...] read more

How to prevent boot manager missing after cloning a win764 image using Ghost 2003?

I am running ghost 2003 command -fdsp, but once we have cloned the image and restored it onto exactly the same make and model machine, we are force to run win7 setup and run a repair which fixes the boot menu, I want to prevent this requirement to fix the [...] read more

Computer Crashes When Waking From Sleep Sometimes

I have been having issues with my computer waking up from sleep. It seems like after the computer sleeps for “a long time” (tends to be overnight) it crashes with a KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR, which according to the crash dump was “Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+1ecfd )”. My [...] read more

Proper Imaging Procedures to Restore and Deploy Image with Separate System Reserved Partition

UPDATE: As per my experience here, no one responded. If I do not hear back from TechNet forum members about it, I will post a bounty here, if it makes a difference. I have banged my head against a wall for what seems like all week. I am going to [...] read more

How to simulate a USB unplug/replug after the device is safely removed?

If I send IOCTL_INTERNAL_USB_CYCLE_PORT I/O request to the USB device, it works as unplug and replug. but if I safely removed it from the system tray, then send the same request, I get 0xC000000E error code, which is STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE, and the device won't reappear. Is there a way to simulate [...] read more

Fix cloned Windows problems (laptop system-recovery, memtest, Windows recovery environment)

BACKGROUND/CAUSE Several months ago, I upgraded my laptop's hard-drive to an SSD. The SSD is smaller than the hard-drive, so I freed up enough space for it to fit and cloned the drive to the SSD, with the only changes being that I shrank the laptop-recovery partition that contains the [...] read more

Old Windows 10 BitLocker SSD does not boot after cloning from it with gddrescue in Linux

I have a problem booting my dad's HP computer after copying data from its SSD to a new SSD. Neither the old, nor the new one boots. Please help, I am afraid I may have lost all my data. I need the computer to boot again normally. TDLR: copied data [...] read more

Windows fails to start but can still see data through command prompt

I have a desktop computer running Windows 10. The fan was making a noise so I cleaned it out. I think I was too aggressive and sprayed the compressed air right on the SATA connection to the SSD. Anyway, next time I turned on the computer it went into startup [...] read more

Windows does not boot after changing HDD's UniqueID

I accidentally changed the UniqueID of my main disk drive with with the diskpart utility and now my OS won't boot. I get a BSOD error code 0xc000000e. Here are the command I ran in diskpart: list disk select disk 0 uniqueid disk ID=some gibberish I typed How do I [...] read more

CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7

I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check it. It claimed to fix some things but then it [...] read more

Windows 7 Home hangs at "Welcome" screen

UPDATE 3: I'm currently assisting him in getting a spare hard drive ready to migrate data over to a new Windows 7 installation. On top of that I'm having him run Windows Memory Diagnostic, then will have him run a few passes of memtest86+ to see if anything is wrong [...] read more

Problems with starting Windows after installing Ubuntu on a multiboot pc

Before I recently upgraded my Ubuntu OS, I had a multiboot with Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu. When I started the computer, the GRUB bootloader would usually show the options: Windows 7 and Ubuntu (including memtest,...) When I then chose the Windows 7 option, the Windows bootloader showed up [...] read more

Problems with Windows 7 and HD

I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, an SSD as my main drive and 2 SATA hard drives. One day I got a BSOD and my PC restarted. After that the following error appeared: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be [...] read more

Drive needs to be formatted in Windows 7

After an improper shutdown, my Windows 7 stopped booting and instead displayed "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. Error code: 0xc000000e" When I plug the drive in as an external on a working computer, I get the message that the drive needs to be formatted. If [...] read more

Unable to Boot Windows 7 after GPT/RAID migration

I recently did a migration off of a single hard disk to a RAID array. I backed up my partitions with Clonezilla and everything worked fine. I was able to then restore both my Windows 7 Bootloader and Windows 7 main partitions to my hardware RAID array. I'm currently running [...] read more

Configuring Windows Boot Manager w/ GRUB2 and Clonezilla

One of my work tasks is to configure the computers that ship in our products with Windows OS images (Embedded and OEM) with a restore partition. I have been using Clonezilla Live with GRUB2 to implement this process. This worked fine with Windows XP/Embedded Standard 2009. This does not work [...] read more

Fixing misaligned Windows partition without affecting Ubuntu

I have dual boot setup with my partitions set up like so: * /dev/sda1 - DellUtility (FAT) * /dev/sda2 - RECOVERY (NTFS) * /dev/sda3 - OS (Windows 7 NTFS) * /dev/sda4 - Extended * /dev/sda5 - swap * /dev/sda6 - ext4 (Ubuntu OS) * /dev/sda7 - ext4 (Ubuntu home) I [...] read more

Interesting Windows 7 boot Issue involving RAID and an SSD

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any idea what's causing this issue and how I can resolve it? The biggest clue here is that I can boot fine when the SATA controller is in SATA or AHCI mode, but on selecting RAID booting throws an error. I've already enabled MSAHCI and iaStorV RAID drivers from [...] read more

What is a physical address and virtual address? and how do they work?

And by the by, what does "svchost.exe error" imply when "the memory cannot be written because of 0xc000000e failure"? Thanks as usual! read more

Macrium Reflect 7 Free on WinXP - Replicated Nonfunctional Macrium Recovery Boot Menu Entries

I had a failing HDD on an old WinXP SP3 machine, and used Macrium Reflect 7 Free (plus SpinRite 6 and Beyond Compare) to salvage the OS and data and clone/copy them onto a new HDD. Multiple steps later (see below), every time I try to add the Macrium Recovery [...] read more

Resolving dual boot problems

I cannot successfully boot Windows through GRUB (BSOD), and cannot booth Linux through the Windows bootloader. My primary goal is to boot both Linux and Windows using a single bootloader, preferably GRUB, but other options are acceptable. The setup Desktop PC with two M2 NVME SSDs. One is supposed to [...] read more

While cloning/moving Windows 10 from HDD to SSD, I get error: 0xc000000e

I'm running Windows 10 64-bit on my HP Envy 750-137c. My CPU is an Intel i7 6700, I have 12 GB of RAM, and a 2 TB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD. I've purchased and installed a 240 GB Sandisk SSD Plus in order to boot Windows 10 from it (and [...] read more

Can I install Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1 in without IDE mode?

Good day guys, I just installed ubuntu and it replaced my current OS Windows 7 Ultimate. Now I want to go back to windows and try to install XP but now I'm unable to install ANY VERSION OF WINDOWS because others says that it requires IDE as controller. Unfortunately, I [...] read more

VirtualBox verr_open_failed error

I am trying to get VirtualBox working for Genymotion so that I can play "Clash of Clans" on it. But I am having some errors. I tried watching a few videos on the matter, but they just didn't fix my problem, so I came to Stack Exchange for some help, [...] read more

Installing Windows 10 with bootloader on a different disk?

I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a brand new NVMe disk, but I just found out my motherboard can't boot from these (but windows sees it natively in the installer and installs just file), however, I have a spinning HDD that I can boot from. Is it possible to [...] read more

What validation does Windows 10 bootloader perform on the ESP

I can boot Windows 10 by running EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi on the ESP (2nd hard disk partition). However, if I copy the EFI folder to a 100 MiB FAT32 file system on another disk and attempt to boot from there, I get the startup repair screen within a second or two. The [...] read more

corrupted winload.efi in a windows 10 copy

I have got a mini computer with 32Gb of internal storage. Windows 10 takes at least 20Gb and the disk is now full. So I decided to move the system to an external HDD SSD drive, using minitool partition wizard. After the cloning, I have got this configuration: enter image [...] read more

Windows 8.1 Pro RTM Update Fails on Macbook Air 2012

Updating Windows 8 Pro x64 to 8.1 Pro RTM* fails with error code 0xC000000e on my 13" Macbook Air 2012 running Windows 8 Pro natively. The Windows 8.1 ISO is located on a secondary Windows partition. Could the location of the ISO be the cause of the error? Should I [...] read more

Can't boot Windows 8, can't boot from USB installer

I'm having all sorts of problems with my PC. It's custom-built so I didn't expect to have UEFI/Secure Boot compatibility issues but I think that's what's happening. I have a Windows 8 Pro installation on C:. I tried installing Ubuntu 14, which did two things: * choosing Ubuntu in grub2 [...] read more

HP recovery error after moving the partition with gparted

I bought a Compaq laptop that come with HP recovery partition. I moved the HP recovery partition with Gparted from an Ubuntu live CD, and when I wanted to boot this partition from grub2 option, I got a message like this: > Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or [...] read more

0x00000e9 error on boot Windows 10

Recently when booting up my computer, the OS (Windows 10 Pro 64-bit) failed to load. When booting off of my primary drive, I received the following error: > 0xc000000e A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. You'll need > to use recovery tools. If you don't have any [...] read more

Windows 8.1 Pro won't boot, Status: 0xc000000e

My computer has been working fine until yesterday. I turned it on and immediately after the motherboard logo, I got an error screen (light blue) saying, Your PC Needs to be Repaired with an error code Status: 0xc000000e. There was no file/driver specified. I have tried many different solutions such [...] read more

how can I fix boot error status 0xc000000e on windows 7

First,I wanna clarify that I found few answers @ superuser.com but none of them worked for me.So,please if somebody know how to fix my computer problem,let me know. Few days ago,I started my laptop computer and saw the error.The error says Windows failed to start.A recent hardware or software change [...] read more

Failure of 1 SSD in Raid-0 that was bootdrive stopping computer from booting

I've spent 4+ hours searching this site and Google for someone to have/address my issue, and have had no luck so far, so I was wondering if someone could help me. Thank you! My computer has 2 32 GB SSD's raided together (Raid-0; I know,I know, but I didn't build [...] read more

Boot error: 0xc000000e. "An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data." on Windows 7

So a few days ago, a friend called me up asking for help with his computer because it was giving him this error and not allowing him to boot: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: [...] read more

HDD gets inacessible on Windows shutdown

Windows is functional, i.e. it can be loaded. (Windows 7) However, after shutting computer down, if I try to switch it on again, I get the error message with status 0xc000000e, info "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible." This error persists through multiple reboots. To successfully [...] read more

Windows 7 won't boot from any bootloader except for Windows Boot Manager after partition resize

I have a triple boot system on a single SSD: OSX, Windows 7, and Ubuntu. I use Chimera (basically another version of Chameleon) as my bootloader. Usually I can boot all 3 OSs without any issue, but after using GParted to make my Ubuntu partition 2 Gigs larger, Windows 7 [...] read more

Issues installing Windows 7 HP

I have a weird problem i cannot seem to resolve. I was given a laptop (old but good) to do as I please, I want to reinstall Windows 7 HP as that's what I have a legitimate key for. I tried using a dvd(s) to boot from and thus install. [...] read more

Installing Ubuntu 14.04 before Windows8.1 Error 0xc000000e the BCD of your PC is missing or contains error

I install Windows usually before Ubuntu, but because there wasn't Windows after experiencing some hard drive problem I installed Ubuntu-Gnome-14.04 before Windows, but I am unable to install either Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 afterwards. The error I encountered every time I try to make the installation using [...] read more

Windows 7 random crashes

I have a Windows 7 computer with this hardware: * Asus P8P67 PRO * Intel i7 2600k * 8GB RAM * AMD Radeon HD 6970 * 2TB HDD (used for storing data) * 128GB SSD OCZ Vertex III (used for the OS) The PC works fine but Windows crashes after [...] read more

How do I install Windows 8 using a GPT Partition scheme?

This question seems to have been asked in very similar form in the past, but I was unable to find a relevant answer her or elsewhere. I am ultimately looking to install a dual boot of x64 Windows 8 and Arch Linux on my machine. According to this Arch Wiki [...] read more

Need to rebuild Boot sector and Partition table of a once Multiboot Disk manually converted to VMDK

I had a problem with an HD that was not in a Healthy State I was able to make a backup in time with Acronis Image Home. The backup was partial, the original Disk had 4 partition (3 primary, bootable partitions and a logical only Data partition), the was a [...] read more

Install Windows XP on old IDE hard disk

I wanted to know if there was a way to install Windows XP on a old Pentium 4 (Intel motherboard) system which does not boot via USB and CD/DVD drive? Is it possible to connect the hard disk to my laptop and install Windows XP Pro on it using VMware [...] read more

PC restored from Windows Home Server does not boot

All the PC at my office are connected to a server running Windows Home Server which do backup every night. We bought a new PC with a Windows7 Home Premium license to replace a dying one running on Windows7 Home Premium and I have used the WHS Restore CD to [...] read more

"Error allocating I/O BAR for PCI device" when booting Windows 7

> Possible Duplicate: > Error allocating Mem BAR for PCI Device 0X/00/0. I have a Dell Optiplex 380. When I try to boot Windows 7 normally I get the following after the Windows loading screen: *** Hardware Malfuncion Call your hardware vendor for support NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity [...] read more

Truecrypt + Windows 7 100MB partition corrupt

I've got a problem. I have a new SSD where I installed W7 Ultimate. However my other drive (HDD) had W7 Ultimate with Truecrypt (Entire System Drive). Sadly the first 100MB of this disk has now become corrupt. When I start truecrypt and type in my password, I get: "Error: [...] read more

Truecrypt + Windows 7 100MB partition corrupt

> Possible Duplicate: > Truecrypt + Windows 7 100MB partition corrupt Hi, I've got a problem. I have a new SSD where I installed W7 Ultimate. However my other drive (HDD) had W7 Ultimate with Truecrypt (Entire System Drive). Sadly the first 100MB of this disk has now become corrupt. [...] read more

Clone Windows 2008 R2 to a small system drive

I am trying to upgrade a Dell PowerEdge T110 II server. It currently has 2x1TB drives. They are not configured for RAID. One is the system drive, the other is a data storage network drive. My end goal is to put 2x4TB with RAID1 setup for the data drive, but [...] read more

What files does Windows Server 2003 R2 Ent need to boot successfully?

Help - I have a server which keeps rebooting. It brings up the Windows Server 2003 loading screen then reboots, continually. This happens whether I use normal mode, safe mode or last known good. I turned off auto-rebooting and got a BSOD with the message "Stop: 0x0000007b (oxf789ea94, 0xc000000e, 0x00000000, [...] read more

Native Boot VHD Error Code: 0xc000000e

I started by creating a VHDX using Hyper-V in an external drive which when I added the VHDX to bcd it boots fine from the external drive but when I wanted to copy the VHDX on my SSD when I attempted to boot I keep getting the message The application [...] read more

Windows 10 Bootable USB failure

I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a recently built computer. To do this, I downloaded the ISO file and created a bootable USB FAT32 USB drive using UnetBootin. I tested the USB drive on my normal computer, and was able to boot to it just fine. However, when I [...] read more

bootrec /scanos or bootrec /rebuildbcd not working

Recently my system got a BSOD while downloading something which led to corruption of system files. I was able to correct them using sfc/scannow and chkdsk /s /r. I can boot into Windows normally but whenever I try to boot into Windows recovery environment, I get the BSOD saying its [...] read more

Repair/reinstall a not loadable windows 7 and keeping info

In my old laptop i had windows7 updated, and i decided to replace the old haddrive by a SSD drive. With a linux gparted I moved the partition from physical disk to SSD. Booting from SSD windows is recognized and it start loading but it fails quickly and shows the [...] read more

Windows 10 Dual Boot Error

I am trying to set up two Windows 10 installations on the same machine (UEFI) using two separate NVMEs. I've followed the steps outlined in this video. When booting up the original Windows 10 installation everything works fine, but when attempting to boot the second Windows 10 installation to set [...] read more

Windows 10 Creators Update: Error 0xc000000e on Restart

When I download and install the Creator Update (Feature update 1703), and then restart my computer, I get this screen: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/VDz0z.jpg] I can bypass this recovery screen by going into 'UEFI Firmware Settings' (and sometimes 'Startup Settings') and using the 'boot override' option on my bootable [...] read more

Windows 8 can't load from UEFI but loads by selecting the device

just replaced my CD/DVD-ROM in my notebook with an SSD, installed Windows 8 on it but got a damn annoying problem - the computer can't boot by the UEFI, I get the error of winload.exe missing and the error code 0xc000000e. The strange thing is that by pressing F12 when [...] read more

Error 0xc000000e when booting

My laptop has a primary SSD with Windows 10 on it I installed a new SSD on which I installed another Windows 10, but wanted to keep the old one on the other disk. Everything was working fine : the Windows boot manager let me choose which installation of Windows [...] read more

Why I can't install Windows 10 on the new SSD I installed on my old Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop? // Error code: 0xc000000e

I have an old Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 laptop and I wanted to upgrade it so that it'll be faster and give it to my parents to use - so I didn't want to spend that much. I have found out that the main reason these old laptops are slow, [...] read more

Migrating Windows 7 from BIOS-MBR to BIOS+GPT

I have a BIOS-based system running Windows 7 on a MBR partitioned 1TB HDD. This HDD is partitioned as following: * P0: 60 GB NTFS for Windows and Program files * P1: 940 GB NTFS for data As this disk is going to be full, my purpose is to migrate [...] read more

0xc000000e error on Windows 10 after disk id change

I wanted to change the hardware id of my boot drive. However, upon restarting my pc, i got error 0xc000000e: https://i.imgur.com/35BdoJS.jpg What I did attempting to change hwid of my boot drive (C:): * Created Version 4 UUID with https://www.uuidgenerator.net/ * Suppose I got a93a6e48-b935-47fb-92d6-4bb1fd06bd79 * In regedit, I modified [...] read more

Boot Error 0xc000000e caused by secondary hhd, i dont know why

Hey so my computer is getting the error 0xc000000e when I try to boot on my ssd boot drive. I googled the error and did all the possible solutuions there it suggested to no avail until I unpluged my secondary storage hhd and then stopped getting the error. What could [...] read more

"winload.efi" missing or contains errors? New windows install on SSD

Hi I've just installed a new SSD. I then made a windows boot usb from the media creation tool via Microsoft. I then installed Windows 10 to the ssd. Once I tried booting to the SSD I got the error The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a [...] read more

Unable to convert basic volume boot disk to raid 0 boot disk

XY Problem: I was running out of space on my 256GB SSD Boot drive. I have several other drives that are mostly full and take up all my SATA ports. I bought a new 4TB drive to move some stuff over from my Boot drive, along with a SATA PCI [...] read more

Windows 10. accidental change of my hdd disk id

Sooo, the whole situation is strange as hell... So i accidentally changed my hdd disk id using diskpart After changing the id i restarted my computer. Blue screen appeared with 0xc000000e error code. "Selected disk is inactive or not connected. " I made a recovery usb stick. Plug it and [...] read more

Dual booting: 0xc000000e Windows Error when installing GRUB

Hi everyone! This is my first question so correct me please if I´m asking something wrong. So my Problem is: I´ve got a Lenovo E31-70 with pre-installed Windows 10 home 64bit and I tried to dual-boot Kali Linux on it. First I´ve created an Partition with 100GB. Than I installed [...] read more

Error 0xc000000e (blue Windows Recovery screen) after running Memtest86

I recently reformatted my PC. Since then I had started randomly experiencing memory usage spikes, to the point where the PC would become unusable. I figured I might have damaged the RAM, so I ran Windows Diagnostic and it found no problems. When looking at the logs in the Event [...] read more

0xc000000e after imaging windows 10 disk with dd

So, trying to upgrade to SSD, I mounted my old drive and the new SSD to a second system and copied the disk using dd for windows. After putting everything back, using either drive (old or new), I get 0xc000000e (and 0xc000000f for a while) ('unable to access winload.efi'). Trying [...] read more

How to diagnose and repair this NTFS volume

I have a Windows Storage Space that is an 8-drive array configured for parity and formatted as NTFS. Yesterday I was performing maintenance on some files using the security tab from the properties dialog of a folder to modify a large number of files recursively. No other process was working [...] read more

Boot selection failed because a device is inaccessible, not the usual boot error though?? (0xc000000e)

I need some help fast please. I recently booted up my gaming rig after swapping out a 7970 graphics card and upon system boot up, as the Windows 7 logo appeared the system crashes and a BSOD appears for a split millisecond and I'm asked to start up repair Windows [...] read more

BSOD 0xc000000e - Is this SSD drive broken?

I have SSD drive connected via M2 in my laptop (GL552VW). Once the computer has frozen and now every time it gives me BSOD with 0xc000000e. I tried to repair it like that: See console output [https://i.stack.imgur.com/oNkc4.jpg] But it didn't work... I tried to list disks to see if it [...] read more

Did I burnout my graphics card?

I have a computer that I built about 4 years ago, with a few variously upgraded parts. The GPU is 1.5 year old Nvidia GTX 980 ti, and about 2 weeks ago I put in a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I'm still using the original 650 watt PSU, which has [...] read more

Partition table incorrectly displayed inside partition software tools

I would like to do some work on sdb3 partition: sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1938021 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 [...] read more

Multiple Computers on Multiple Networks Crashing because of Unknown Win Issue

I am part of team of people who are experiencing a weird issue that we cannot seem to pin point the root cause of; So far the only commonality between the computers seems to be Windows 7 and LabTech Software. I, personally have seen the issue occur on 3 separate [...] read more

Tried triple boot on MBP, broke Windows

I have a MBP with OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Windows 8.1 (via Bootcamp). I now wanted to add Ubuntu to the pack and therefore created a new partition using Disk Utility in OS X. From that moment on, Windows 8 would no longer boot - I get boot [...] read more

Can boot anything except windows

Although my bios is correctly configured i can boot anything from USB except Win installation USB i used rufus and the win program to place the iso into the USB. I installed Ubuntu perfectly from the same USB device, the only thing i can't boot is WIN. When i try [...] read more

iMac: Install/boot windows 8.1 on thunderbolt SSD, got 0xc000000e

I was following http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.com/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html and successfully installed Windows 8.1 on a WD Element 2TB USB 3.0, without any issue. However, since the performance was really poor to run Win8.1 on that WD Element, I purchased a LaCie Little big Thunderbolt 512GB (256GB * 2 RAID), I formated the two Disk [...] read more

Windows 8.1 EFI partition rebuild not working

It all began when I deleted the partition of an old Linux that was dual-booted with Windows 8.1 UEFI. This Linux system was using the Grub2 bootloader and was installed on a secondary disk. After rebooting grub was thrown in the rescue shell because it probably could not find it's [...] read more

Windows 8 sometimes stuck, sometimes can't boot with 0x000000e

PC keeps crashing in weird ways. Symptoms: 1. I have a Windows 8 Box that sometimes (I suspect under heavy load) get stuck, but in a weird way - PC unresponsive, but I can (most of the times, sometimes I can't) still move the mouse and the mouse's icon changes [...] read more

Cloning windows 7 fails

I am using aronis true image 2014 premium to clone a drive. the drive booted up just fine after a clone in the same machine but when I switch the new SSD drive over to the new system WIndows will not boot up. What do I need to do? error: [...] read more

Cannot resume Lenovo G770 (Win 7) from hibernate

I hibernated my Lenovo G770 laptop (H2O Insyde Bios, Windows 7) last night with a USB hard drive attached. On trying to resuming this morning I get the error: Windows Boot Manager Status: 0xc000000e Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. I suspect that this may [...] read more

I accidentally deleted some autorun processes, and now can't restore Windows

I've downloaded a program that detects the autoruns on my system. I deleted some autorun processes from my system and now some good features of Windows have disappeared. More important than all of them right now is that I want to restore my system to factory. This however gives me [...] read more

Sony Vaio Hard Drive replacement won't boot

I'm working on a Sony Vaio VGN-CR120e. I've cloned the original SATA 1.5 drive with Norton Ghost on to 2 new hard drives, the second of which is a Seagate 7200.4 320Gb 7200 RPM, with the jumper set to limit to SATA 1.5. (The first drive is a WD Scorpio [...] read more