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winload.efi missing or corrupt error when trying to use startup repair
Hi, this is my first thread post. This morning my laptop worked fine and I was browsing around the net when my desktop decided that it was high time it froze. So I did a hard reset as I have done many times before on many different computers. Only when I rebooted, my system shut itself down immediately after the first boot up screen.
Eventually (miraculously), after around 10 hard resets, it got past that screen to the windows logo screen, and got stuck for around 10min there, and then got through to the login screen. When I log in, I get a blank screen with only my cursor showing up. I read around that you can display the desktop again by ending the explorer.exe process and restarting it in the task manager, which unfortunately didn't work for me. Rebooting again does exactly the same, and when I open up the repair screen by pressing F8, only safe mode seems to actually load anything (so I guess there's not too much wrong with my harddrive since I can access everything through safe mode).
Both startup repair and Safe Mode with Networking give me exactly the same error:
"Your PC needs to be repaired
The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors.
File: \Windows\system32\winload.efi
Error code: 0xc0000225
You'll need to use the recovery tools on your installation media. If you don't have any installation media (like a disc or USB device), contact your system administrator or PC manufacturer"
So I can't use either of those options to fix whatever problem this is, and System Restore in Safe Mode says that I don't have any restore points.
As far as I'm aware I didn't install anything new on my system since 2 days ago, and like I said, it was still working this morning.
Is there ANY way that I can save some of my important files, as I have a project on this laptop that has to be handed in in 4 weeks and can't be redone in such a small amount of time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)