The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible?


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    The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible?


    Hi there

    Hoping someone can help me with this booting problem.

    About six months ago my hard drive failed and I had buy a new HD and re-install Win 7. I had created a backup on an external HD, but for some reason I could not restore the computer using this backup. I'm not sure if any of the backup data transferred onto the HD when I tried to do this. I therefore did a clean install of Win 7 and then copied the files I wanted across from the backup on the external HD.

    Now, whenever I switch on the laptop the first screen I see is the from the Windows Boot Manager, which says "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.... and it gives the "status as 0xc0000225. Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."

    I then hit enter and the laptop boots successfully and all is good. The only reason why I have decided to fix this now is because I want to upgrade to Win 10, and I don't want this to cause any problems during installation.

    The C drive is where I installed the new copy of Win 7 Op System and the E drive is the partition I created to store my data files etc. I'm not sure what the other drives are?

    I have attached screens of the screen described above and also the Windows disk management screen.

    Thanks for your help.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible?-20150917_102613.jpg   The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible?-capture.png  
    Last edited by Jonosun; 18 Sep 2015 at 08:18. Reason: added drive info assignment
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  2. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
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    No reply!

    Does anyone have any idea what might be going here? Is there anything I can try out to identify the problem? Would I likely encounter problems if I attempt a Win10 upgrade without fixing this? Anymore info that you may need?

    Thanks again to anyone that might have some useful suggestions?
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