BSOD & Windows 7 USB repair disk errors

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I have a dual boot machine (Windows 7 Ultimate & Ubuntu which uses GRUB as bootmanager and is Windows as entry). I just recently added a third OS to (Windows 10 Pro). THings were running nicely, but at some point my Windows 7 installation became corrupted. While booting up Win7 I am getting a BSOD after the Windows logo shows up with the error:

0x0000006B: PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED which is described in detail HERE

The next part of this question deals with how I have attempted to create and use a repair disk in hopes to resolve the BSOD issue, but this may not even solve the issue. I am ultimately looking for a way to fix the BSOD error described above and any replies that lead to this BSOD being solved will be marked as the answer.

Since I do not have my Windows 7 installation disk anymore, I decided to try and use the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool & the Rufus bootbale disk creator to create a WIndows 7 repair install disk to access the repair functions.

While the startup USB disk is showing that 'Windows is loading Files' at startup the process shows the error: enter image description here

This error message is described in detail HERE At that site it is mentioned that error 0xc0000225 is usually from a bad BCD which I attempted to correct using EasyBCD but it made no difference as I am still getting the error and still capable of booting into my other operating systems.

I can skip past this error but get a new one on the next screen that loads: enter image description here

The error message 0xc0000098 is described in detail HERE. Again, this looks like a bad or missing BCD, but I am confused about this because I am still able to boot into my operating system.

Could there be something wrong with the way I am formatting the Windows Recovery disk that might cause the recovery disk not to load properly? I have tried using both FAT32 and NTFS, as well as using GPT & MBR (MBR wont work at all).

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asked on Super User Apr 27, 2020 by Kalamalka Kid • edited Apr 30, 2020 by CaldeiraG

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Although this is not a real helpful answer, the only recourse I had was to abandon using Windows 7 and get Windows 10. I really wanted to keep Win7 but it turns out that this error was unrecoverable.

answered on Super User Apr 30, 2020 by Kalamalka Kid
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In UEFI boot mode, the boot process is as follows: UEFI firmware > Bootmgfw.efi > \Boot\BCD > winload.efi > ntoskrnl.exe.

Therefore, if the BCD file has no operating system entry, the boot process will be stopped and 0xc0000098 error occurs.

Another reason for 0xc0000098 error is an installed incompatible hard drive driver.

I feel bcd has to be manually fixed.

As u can access the old Win7 C drive, try running these commands on the Command Prompt in order. This would try to rebuild your bcd that may clear the 0xc0000098 error.

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd

However this still doesn't solve your full problem but if this works atleast you can try all the solutions that requires a bootable USB. Hope this helps!

answered on Super User May 4, 2020 by Aditya Patnaik • edited Jun 12, 2020 by Community

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