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Winload.exe error 0xc000000f - no solution seems to work - win7 pro 64
Hi everyone,
as the title suggest I have the quite common (based on my research in the past couple of days) boot issue with Win7 pro 64, my XP works fine (Dual boot).
I have tried almost everything and I am at my wits end. I would be very grateful for any suggestions.
I've read hundreds of forums, nothing works for me
This is what I tried:
- the startup repair of course from win7 disc (usually it says it cant repair, sometimes it can but no change after restart). tried that xxx-times, with reboots in between and even with some command in the console
- bootrec fixes, bcdrebuilding - I tried virtualy every option here, order of commands etc. still nothing
- bcdedit I tried changing the drives (again basicaly every possibility), even though based on the forums it was correct in the beginning. Didn't solve anything so restored the original bcd
- chkdsk with all parameters - some minor corrections in free space, still nothing
-sfc /scannow - no error
-copied several versions of the winload.exe (from different dirs in my win folder) -still nothing, tried from dif. win7 install, still nothing, so again restored original
-also tried activate partition according to some it worked, didn't help me
- tried about 10 other things/commands -cant even remember them all, still nothing
- tried just with the new hdd connected, but I believe I have the boot manager/loader or stg on the older HDD with xp so didn't work (bcdedit confirms that). I tried removing the xp altogether by rebuildbcd but still returns the winload error.
This is my pc situation and how this occured:
- two windows on separate HDDs. Win XP is on older HDD, I bought a new HDD and win 7, installed on the new disk, no issues, dualboot worked fine.
- worked for week or two then just turn off my pc, turn on the next day and I have this error.
- XP works no problem - using now
- I cant get to advanced boot options for some reason (safe mode, last working config etc), if I press F8 either before dualboot screen or during, it returns the winload error. The only thing available is the hw memory check and that doesn't solve anything. And I'm sure F8 is the correct button for my pc as it worked in the past and manual confirms this.
-I can boot from the win7 disc but the repair there, nor the many suggested commands do not work
note: at the beginning the command /scanos didn't find any win installs - now it finds one the win7, even though win XP still works just fine! during some of the cmds I found on forums it started seeing the win7 installation, but that's about all the progress I made.
Also if the solutions ruins XP I don't really care, I just want the 7 to work and XP for some data.
I'm NOT doing a clean install, otherwise I'm willing to try pretty much everything... I even downloaded one sw that claimed to solve this, ran it in XP but of course it started fixing xp - and I couldn't change it there.
I've seen the EASYRE sw but after new hdd and win7 it's a bit expensive for me.
Honestly if anyone can solve this, I will write a song about you..
P.S.:sorry for mistakes in English, I'm not a native speaker, but you don't have to talk down to me, I can handle it.