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 software change might be the cause.
- File:
\Windows\System32\winload.exe
- Status:
0xc000000e
- Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt
My Windows 7 is still found, I can also use Explorer to see the HP recovery partition (but I didn't find this path: \Windows\System32\winload.exe
)
The partition was working just fine before this change. I don't have any HP factory disk.
Recovery Partitions can not just be moved like that. You can repair windows the following way:
WIndows will now repair your Windows-Installation. Afterwards Windows will tell you to restart your computer. However, Windows will still not boot up. Repeat the Repair-Steps 2 more times. Afterwards your Windows should boot up fine.
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