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Failure to log in after trialling an iso. Error 0xc0000225
Gooday all. I found an old ISO for a copy of win8 for trial/developers. Decided I would give a run on a second drive on my computer. After some stuffing around I got it installed and started poking around having a look at win 8. Then a pop up advised me that the trial period had finished and that my computer would restart after 2 hours and info would be lost. I wasn't overly concerned , I had had a look around so I re formatted the HD back to Ext3 and put another linux distro on it. When I went to sign back into my win7 instalation I found a light blue screen,not bsod, advising that my win7 was broken nand it gave the error code 0xc0000225. I googled that and found a number of entries but none like mine. I have been unable to resolve this so any help would be appreciated.
What I have tried.
1 Using Grub disc to fix MBR of win7 hd. Grub claimed to have succeeded but same issue when I went back.
2. I had created a system rescue disc in July this year. I ran that but it ran out of options.
3 I got my win7 disc and ran that got to page where it gives the repair options. I tried Fixing boot, restore point and what ever the 3rd option is there.
All of this to no avail.
I loaded a Knoppix live CD and was able to transfer all the important stuff to a separate 2TB hard drive.
My inclination at this stage is to just format the disc and do a clean install, however if someone can guide me in a better direction I am happy to be advised.
I am writing this from the same machine just on another drive(Linux).