0xc000000e Boot Error

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[b]Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer.
Choose your langugae settings, and then click next
Click "repair your computer."

Status: 0xc000000eInfo: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.[/b] I got this error after some random point in time on my computer. At the time I had two instances of windows on my computer and after this point it took me a week or two to find my windows install dvd but once I did none of the repair tools seemed to work and it would always end up with this error. I then decided to give up and just install windows 7 on the hdd I didn't have an instance of windows on since I have 3 hdd. This worked well for 4 days until this morning when the same error message popped up on me. I hadn't even gotten around to reinstalling all the same programs as my other instance of windows. Also in the meantime while using the newest instance of windows the computer never recognized that there were 2 other instances of windows but now today while going about fixing the newest instance of windows it did decide to recognize that there is at least one other form of windows on the computer. While rebooting trying every type of repair tool I was able to boot into the older form of windows but none of my programs worked and I wasn't able to connect to the internet and eventually on a random reboot in which I didn't press any buttons I am again on my newest version of windows. I really have no clue what is going on and this is quite frustrating at the moment since I don't know what is wrong. I thought it might be one of my hdd but unless it is all 3 of them then I really don't think it is them. Also when running the restart repair (I think that's what it was called) it said it could find no problems but there was one root error. I am not sure what that means but maybe that might help. If there is any additional info that would help to find the solution to this problem please let me know. Thanks ahead of time for any assistance.

*EDIT* I have no idea how to get the words to not go only on one line...*/EDIT*

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Anonymous

Hello Andrew,

1. Since when are you facing this issue?

2. Any recent changes made to the computer?

Method 1:

Unplug all the external devices and try booting and check.

Method 2:

Check if you are able to boot in safe mode or not:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

If yes,I suggest you to put the computer inclean boot state and check.

To help troubleshoot error messages and other issues, you can start Windows Vista by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This kind of startup is known as a "clean boot." A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

Refer the link below for more details:

How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Note:

After you have finished troubleshooting, follow these steps in the above article to reset the computer to start as usual.

If not,try perfomring astartup repair and check:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7

Method 3:

If not, I suggest you toRebuild the BCD store manually by using the Bcdedit.exe tool.

Refer step 3 to do the same in the below article:

**http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2004518**

For your reference:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistadeployment/thread/4de675a4-14ae-4469-b881-5df58d846bff

Regards,

Savan – Microsoft Support.

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Anonymous

2016-08-17T12:23:42+00:00

Okay going to try this, I see this has jumped from a few years to Aug 2016.

Now lets see see my computer has been acting a little funky lately between the screens blacking out and computer restarting and such I figured it might have been a over heating issue from dust and what not and was going to clean it out during my days off but the computer had other ideas, while I was at work I get text from my wife saying the computer screen went out, once I got home seen the computer was turned off and being tired and not thinking anything else was wrong I started cleaning the dust out of the computer I noticed my GPU 660 Ti was really dusty I took it out vaccumed and used air duster to blow out anything inside it. Once I was finished with everything checking my hydro cooling fan and everything I double checked all wires and components were properly plugged in, I started computer and the GPU fan started to make a noise like it had enough of this and just wanted to die so figured it was burning out so I ran to the store got a new GPU just a cheap one to hold me over a 950 MSI, get home plug it in hook it up and now I get this error 0xc000000e wdf, so I tried to repair I had upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 then 8 to 10 well I never made a Windows 10 Media disk or flash drive for what ever reason so I figured maybe I could recover using the Windows 8 upgrade disk I had, I had bios boot from disk I do not want to install a new Windows but repair the repair had failed and would not allow me but keep referring me to Windows 7 I figured after upgrading to 8 then to 10 the Windows 7 would not be a option anymore but what ever I guess it is but I did not want to lose the 6 months of pictures of my son that I did not back up yet, I tried the command promo options but they did not work.

I am thinking I might try removing the GPU see if it will start up if not I will replace the Sata cables or mix the up but it's confusing it says it is not reading my hard drive or maybe the OS but when booting it shows my HD And then Go's to the famous screen shot we all see here.

I have downloaded a copy of Windows 10 and will try repairing from that once I get home from work and make a CD see if that works. It's all trouble shooting but if anyone has any other options I can try before hand let me know, my bios are reset and were never changed can't really think of anything else, I will remove hdd and acess it though another computer see if I can still salvage the 6montbs of pictures before I do a reinstall of Windows do not want to run the risk of losing pictures and videos that are non replaceable funny how I have 2 external hdd and a back up hdd in the computer and forgot to save these photos. Could care less about the programs they all can be re-downloaded in time.
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Anonymous

2016-08-17T21:33:46+00:00

Okay I got it fixed, I wanted to try the cheapest thing first I replaced the SATA cables and plugged them into different ports and tested it and started up into boot repair, the repair failed I. Restarted and it booted into OS in seconds no problems yet.
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2016-08-17T22:13:39+00:00

Glad you got it fixed, the cable was also my solution the first time I got the error. However the second time was caused by a 3rd party software tech support accessing the computer remotely and doing a clean up. During the process he deleted some essential file[s] required for windows boot. The file was \Windows\System32\win.exe.

So the moral here is to never let someone access your computer remotely. However I have had mine accessed at other times by Norton and others that worked out just fine.
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Anonymous

2017-01-02T09:53:44+00:00

when i use the DVD from windows 8.1

I couldn't repair (or anything else)

what could i do??
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