[Urgent] Win 8 doesn't boot - winload.efi error - Easeus Partition Manager

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I just got a new Dell laptop, a Dell Inspiron 15 3537 (i5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, 1 GB HD 8670 Gfx card, Win 8 pre-installed). I started it up, tinkered for about half an hour, and saw that it had one single partition, around 450 GBs. Then I copied (an older version of) Easeus Partition Manager from my old laptop, installed it in the Dell laptop, and started it up.

It showed a whole lot of partitions; one was the 450 GB one that I can see in My Computer, then there was another 500 MB one, and three or four others. I took a screenshot but its in the non-booting Dell laptop. :( I resized the 450 MB partition, making one 100 MB one and leaving the rest to be resized later. Easeus asked for restart, so I allowed it do to so; after rebooting, it started working, and then all of a sudden I got this "Your PC needs to be repaired message", citing a problem with winload.efi, and an error code of 0xc0000225:



Of the three options at the bottom, Enter and F8 don't work; if I press them, the same screen comes back. Pressing Esc shows another screen which I don't understand at all:



I don't have the Windows 8 DVD with me; Windows came pre-installed with this laptop. I don't even know what the Serial no. of this Windows copy is. I was going to use Advanced Tokens Manager to copy it, but this happened before I could do it.

I have only the following on my old laptop: (1) Windows 7 x64 Home Premium ISO, (2) Ubuntu 14.04.1 x64 ISO, downloaded about a week ago, and (3) a 16 GB USB drive.

How do I repair the new laptop? :(
 
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Pressing F8 doesn't do anything.

The link you've given requires a Win 8 DVD, which i don't have. In the end, you said "do a restore"; how do I do it?

I have the Win 7 x64 ISO; I could make a bootable USB drive with it. Will booting from the Win 7 USB help in solving this problem?

Thanks for the reply.
 
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You have to tap it not just press it once. Like I said to restore it reboot it'll say somewhere on the screen what key to press. You could use a Win7 ISO, but can you activate it after?

But you cant use Win7 to fix a Win8 prob. That will have a partition on it for windows 8. So the files for Win8 will be on the hdd


 
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I kept tapping the F8 key, but it went anyway to the first screenshot I've given (Your PC needs to be repaired). Whatever key I press, it comes around to this same screen.

I've been searching for a solution on the net, and most of them use the Win 8 DVD, and use commands like "Bootrec /fixboot" and stuff like that. If I boot from the Win 7 ISO, will I be able to do that? I don't want to reinstall Win 8 or anything; I just want it to boot.
 
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Like I said you cant use a Win7 dvd to fix win8. You may have no other option but to restore it.

You could try removing that hdd, then put it in a working system then see if theres an ISO in the hidden partition.

Thats why it doesnt come with a DVD. There SHOULD be a hidden restore partition on that hdd, and there should be a way of creating a DVD (there maybe an ISO on that hdd somewhere). And a way of restoring it



 
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The HDD of this laptop is 500 GBs, but it shows only 450 GBs in My Computer, as C drive. The rest of the ~50 GBs must contain the ISO you are talking about. Maybe if I boot from Ubuntu, it'll show the ISO? I'll try that later.

I just got a Win 8 ISO from a friend. He says he downloaded it a long time back, when Win 8 was released. I'm copying it to the USB drive right now. If I'm able to boot from that, what should I do? This page here talks about Refresh and Restore:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2302-reset-windows-8-a.html

Which one should I do? Or maybe there's a repair install option? Or should I try to find the ISO using Ubuntu?

Thanks again for all the replies you've given. :)
 
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Did you read the link I posted in the 2nd post?

Is the ISO the same version thats installed on this laptop? And 32 / 64 bit whatever version is on the laptop?

Refresh and restore will wipe everything too. BUT there should a restore function / option after you reboot it. It maybe F10 or F12 or something
 
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I booted from the Win 8 USB. First I couldn't find the USB drive in the Boot menu so I disabled UEFI. Win 8 booted from the USB drive after manually selecting USB drive in Boot menu. Then I opened the Command Prompt, and did what you asked me to do (in the second post) - the assign letter=z stuff. After rebooting, it gave this message:

Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller Series v1.29 (12/12/12)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
No Boot Device Found. Press any key to reboot the machine.

So I rebooted, went into Setup by pressing F2, and changed the mode or whatever to UEFI again. This time it booted up, but asked me which OS I wanted to boot: Win 8 (On volume 3) or Win 8 alone. I clicked Win 8 (the second option) but it gave me the first screenshot again. I pressed F9 and got back to the two options screen and selected the volume 3 Win 8, and Windows started up! Thanks a lot man!

But after this, I restarted, and it keeps giving me the same screen - Win 8 on volume 3 or Win 8. How do I get rid of this - making the volume 3 one default?

I don't know exactly what damage Easeus did to my system, but is there any way to make my laptop go back to the state it was about three hours ago, before I messed everything up? Wait, maybe System Restore will do the job...

Thanks a hundred times, friend!

Edit: Before it gave the Realtek message, when Windows was loading, Easeus suddenly started up and said it is finishing its job, and then vanished; then I got the Realtek message.

Edit 2: I opened System Restore. In Protecting Settings, it shows two entries:
OS ( C: ) (System) Off
OS ( C: ) (Missing) On

When I clicked on System Restore, it said System Restore is turned off.

Btw, what exactly have I done? Where is the laptop booting from? From the 500 MB volume (volume 3)?

Edit 3: I'm posting screenshots of my HDD. The first screenshot is of the hard disk as Easeus Partition Manager shows it, before I made any changes:



The second screenshot is of the hard disk at present:


 
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Sorry, I don't understand. After booting from the Windows 8 USB, I used the command prompt to type whatever is given in that page. As a result, my computer boots again. What I'd like to know why there are two entries in the System Restore dialog box. System Restore also does not have any restore points to go back to, which it should have, considering it must have made one when I installed Easeus Partition Manager.

What do Window's Refresh or Restore options do - do they format C: drive, turn it back into the 450 GB one it was earlier, delete the previous copy of Windows and install a new copy from the hidden ISO? Btw, in the screenshots I've given in the previous message, which volume do you think contains the hidden Win 8 ISO? In the first screenshot made before installing Easeus, there's a volume called PBR Image, which is 13.27 GBs, of which 12.57 GBs is used. But in the second screenshot, there is no such volume. So where did it vanish?

Thanks again. :D

Edit: Should I use Windows inbuilt software to make a partition of the unallocated space?
 
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Can you try / do this??

https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc0000225/

Fix #1: Rebuild the BCD

You can rebuild the BCD by following these steps to access the bootrec.exe tool:

Insert your install disc
Click on Repair your computer after you go through language, time etc.
Select your Windows installation drive, which is usually C:\, and click Next
Choose Command Prompt when the System Recovery Options box appears
Write the following command and press afterwards:

bootrec /rebuildbcd

Fix #2: Manually configuring the active partition

It’s very common to have this error displayed as a cause of having the wrong partition set as active.

Referring to the description of how the PC boots, the BIOS tries to start the boot loader up from the active partition and the bootloader searches for its configuration data from the active partition as well.

If the active partition is corrupted or incorrectly set, many errors including 0xc0000225 can happen.

Use diskpart from the command line to set the correct partition.

Execute the following commands to see a list of all partitions on your disk:

diskpart
list part

Once you’ve determined which of the displayed partition needs to be active (not sure? Easy Recovery Essentials can automatically detect problems with your active partition and automatically reconfigure the correct partition for you, no command line needed), carry out the steps below to make the changes:

select partition x
active
quit

Press Enter after each command
Reboot for the changes to take place

Fix #3: Restore the MBR

This fix demands more commands you need to type than the Fix #1 above. You’re going to use the bootsect.exe file from the CD and not bootrec.exe. Follow these steps:

Insert your Windows install CD
Select Repair your computer after you go through the initial screen
Select your Windows installation drive (usually C:\)
Click Next
Choose Command Prompt at System Recovery Options window screen
Determine which drive letter your Windows installation disk is on. Run the following commands in the exact same order and hit Enter after each:

diskpart
select disk 0
list volume

After entering list volume your Command Prompt will show a list of available drives.

Search for the item that has “CD-ROM” in the “Type” column and check what letter it has assigned in the “LTR” column. In our example (and from now on) our CD drive letter is E:
Close the diskpart process by running exit and hit Enter:

exit

Type the CD drive’s letter, F: (simply F:), in the Command Prompt line, like this:

F:

Type cd boot and then type dir to show the list of files and directories in the boot directory of the F: drive. You will now see a bootsect.exe file listed. Here are the commands in order:

cd boot
dir

Now type the following command and hit Enter:

bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr

After seeing the success message, Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes., type exit to quit the Command Prompt:

exit

Press Enter
Restart your computer
 
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Sorry, I haven't done what you've instructed me to do. I did however look at the two hard disk photos I've posted earlier, and I think I understand what has happened. The laptop came with Win 8 pre-installed and also had recovery partitions and everything. Then I used the Easeus Partition Manager and messed up the recovery partitions. In the first image, in which Easeus shows the hard disk as shipped by Dell, there is one partition called C:\ which is 449.83 GBs, and the next one is a partition called PBR Image, which is 13.27 GBs, of which 12.57 GBs is used. What I did is, I used Easeus to make a 100 GB partition, which probably began where the 449.83 GBs partition began, but then the rest, including the next partition which held the recovery data, became unallocated space. And it is in that unallocated space that all the recovery information lies.

So is there any way to get all that data back? Any file recovery software that scans the unallocated space and recovers data. If this is not possible, then I might as well format the entire hard disk, and install Win 8 again, since the recovery option is already lost. Am I correct here?

Btw, I used Advanced Tokens Manager to backup my Win 8 key. If I format and reinstall Win 8 from the DVD that I have got from my friend, and then try to restore the key, will it work?
 
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I've made a post here:

http://www.eightforums.com/performance-maintenance/56010-messed-up-recovery-partitions.html#post444013

I started that thread there.

The thread that I've made on this forum here is about Win 8 not booting, and that problem is solved. Should I close this thread, or keep it open for some more time?

Thanks for the help that you've given, Paul. :)

Edit:

I quick formatted the big 363.11 GBs partition as NTFS. Then I used GetDataBack for NTFS to scan that partition. It first shows:



For the three partitions, it shows the same kind of data:







The reason I'm doing this is I'm still hopeful of getting the factory ISO or whatever out of the recovery partition that I destroyed. But these images don't show any such data, do they? Any other software I can use to get the recovery ISO data from the recovery partition I destroyed?

:)
 
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Create A Macrium Reflect Free Rescue disk with Win PE 5.0.
Boot to Disk
Run the Windows Fix Boot
it should find your Windows 8 install and select it
Now select the system reserved partition for the active partition
reboot, now it will pop up with 001 start up error
but it should now effectively allow you to go into the safe mode
and boot up correctly
 
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