0xc00000e9 error, Unable to boot to windows, help?

well. is there is reason its hung?

I have no idea unless it is your laptop. Have you figured out how to remove the hard drive? If so, just for a test. Remove the hard drive, disconnect all wires and try to boot into your USB drive again. If it boots into the USB drive, you have probably just found your problem. You will have to just cancel out of the USB because there is no hard drive to check. But it will tell you it is most likely the hard drive stopping it. Rarely is a hard drive difficult to remove. Usually it is a 5 minute job.

Upon further inspection. It's not the hard drive as it still wont run.

Go into your BIOS, look for the sata controller and see what it is set to ( IDE, AHCI, Raid ), set BIOS to Optimized Defaults, set your sata controller to what it is right now, set your boot order, save and exit. See if you can boot. It has to be something to do with the laptop. You have tried to boot with Seatools, with 2 versions of the repair disk and it won't boot with any of them. If you followed the instructions I gave, there is no reason at least one of them would not boot, unless the USB drive is defective. It is difficult to believe that you could have had 3 bad USB installs. There is something else wrong. You need to find an external DVD drive and boot with that.

Try this. Go to Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool. Scroll down about half way down the page and they have downloads. Download Version 4.20 Auto Installer for USB key. It will install Memtest86+ on a USB drive. All you have to do is tell it where the USB drive is, it will do everything else. It is a test for the ram. If it won't run, something else is wrong. While you are at it, let it run all night. It needs 8 Passes to completely test the ram. 8 Passes with 8 GB of ram should take 9-10 hours. Just plug it in and let it run.

In fact, on second thought, download this, it is either 4.20 or 5.01 memtest86+ USB installer. Unzip it, open it and and tell it where the USB drive is (drive letter), select format it and boot from the USB drive when it is finished. it is fool proof, it will work every single time.

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Whoopde****indoo. PROGRESS. Running in failsafe so it doesn't have a chance to crash.

So. Steve. Il update you after these passes. Does it give .dmp files or something? Il upload my findings when I do get them.

Passes complete. Took longer than expected. No errors.

Should I move this to another sub-forum? Like hardware?

No, it won't give you anything. It just tells you whether you have errors or not. You still need to find a way to run Seatools. I still think it is your hard drive or the file system.

It won't show my drive. So. Im giving up.

tell me what happened. What won't show your Hard drive? Can you go to BIOS > Boot Options and is it seen there?

Seatools is now bootable. But when going into it. Hard drive doesnt show up. But in bios its there.

do you have the installation disk or USB?

I have a usb I could put an install disk on.

You can create a USB Repair Disk this way http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html Read all the information and warnings at the top.

You can create an installation Disk this way http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html. Option 1 is probably the easiest way.

Remember either one has to be the same edition (Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate) as the one you have now. It also has to be the same bitness (X86 or X64) as yours. If you have SP1 installed, the Repair disk has to have been created with the same version of Windows you have with SP1 installed. I would suggest for you to use the Installation disk. It will do anything the repair disk will do, plus it can install Windows which the repair disk can't do.

I don't know how your disk is set up. If it has a 100MB System Reserved Partition it needs to be marked Active. This will tell you how. See Method 2. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html#method2

If it has the 100MB partition, it should be partition 1. Assign a drive letter to partition 2. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html#method2 Use this tutorial. After you mark Partition 1 as active, type select partition 2 and press enter. It will reply partition 2 is the selected partition. Type assign and press enter. It will assign the partition a drive letter. That is necessary for windows to "see" it. Then type exit and press enter. Then type exit and press enter again.