- Jun 9, 2014
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So a few days ago I ran an Anti-Malware scan with (Malwarebytes). not because i felt i needed it but, because i do that every so often just to make sure my computer is running up to par. I finished the scan & restarted my pc. The PC refused to boot into windows 8. I then received a blue screen with the error code: ( 0xC000000F). i then restarted and was brought to the Windows 8 recovery page.
(Continue) (Troubleshoot) (Turn off your pc).
In Troubleshoot i used "refresh" and it says (There was a problem refreshing your pc...) I don't want to reset my PC ,but I tried anyways (There was a problem resetting your pc).
I Then went to Advanced settings & tried system restore (To use system restore you must specify which installation to restore). System image recovery failed to find an image. Automatic repair results in (Startup repair could not repair your computer)
In command prompt i did bootrec / scanos (Windows found 0
installations)
bootrec/fixmbr (system can't find path specified)
bootrec/fixboot(system can't find path specified)
bootrec/rebuildbcd(Windows found 0 installations)
"0 installations" made me consider that maybe my windows 8 installation was somehow corrupted or deleted. i then popped in the windows 8 installation that came with my computer & proceeded to restart my computer.
from there I hit Install Windows, then typed in the Windows 8 serial number. Since i was not upgrading windows i ran a custom install. I was shown:
Drive 0 Partition 1(System Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 2
neither drive could be installed. with an error message: ( Windows cannot be installed on to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed on GPT disks) so then i restarted.
so since the install didn't work I went to (Repair my pc)
which brings me to the same blue recovery screen that i used in the beginning. Everything i did showed me the same error messages, except (Refresh your pc) which said (the drive where windows is installed is locked, unlock the drive & try again)
i then bought a recovery disk from Neosmart tech. (Easy Recovery Essentials). nothing worked.
so i emailed support where they told me i bought the wrong software for windows 8 boot issues. so i was given (EasyBCD) recovery disk. which oddly enough, the file i was given to download & burn via ISO was literally just the windows recovery blue screen from the beginning. so this software also did not work. Im assuming that something important to the boot process was deleted or corrupt. Is there any way of fixing this.
I am lost. let me know what you guys think.
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(Continue) (Troubleshoot) (Turn off your pc).
In Troubleshoot i used "refresh" and it says (There was a problem refreshing your pc...) I don't want to reset my PC ,but I tried anyways (There was a problem resetting your pc).
I Then went to Advanced settings & tried system restore (To use system restore you must specify which installation to restore). System image recovery failed to find an image. Automatic repair results in (Startup repair could not repair your computer)
In command prompt i did bootrec / scanos (Windows found 0
installations)
bootrec/fixmbr (system can't find path specified)
bootrec/fixboot(system can't find path specified)
bootrec/rebuildbcd(Windows found 0 installations)
"0 installations" made me consider that maybe my windows 8 installation was somehow corrupted or deleted. i then popped in the windows 8 installation that came with my computer & proceeded to restart my computer.
from there I hit Install Windows, then typed in the Windows 8 serial number. Since i was not upgrading windows i ran a custom install. I was shown:
Drive 0 Partition 1(System Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 2
neither drive could be installed. with an error message: ( Windows cannot be installed on to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed on GPT disks) so then i restarted.
so since the install didn't work I went to (Repair my pc)
which brings me to the same blue recovery screen that i used in the beginning. Everything i did showed me the same error messages, except (Refresh your pc) which said (the drive where windows is installed is locked, unlock the drive & try again)
i then bought a recovery disk from Neosmart tech. (Easy Recovery Essentials). nothing worked.
so i emailed support where they told me i bought the wrong software for windows 8 boot issues. so i was given (EasyBCD) recovery disk. which oddly enough, the file i was given to download & burn via ISO was literally just the windows recovery blue screen from the beginning. so this software also did not work. Im assuming that something important to the boot process was deleted or corrupt. Is there any way of fixing this.
I am lost. let me know what you guys think.
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