Solved Windows wont get past loading screen

[sulleygold]

Ive tried everything I know. Windows wont boot past the loading screen. None of the other modes work, including repair. I tried reinstalling windows (i done it about a month ago due to a different problen) and it wont load. The hard drive is still viewable in bios and I was fiddling with the menus on boot and found this error message 0xc0000225. I am way out of my depth here and could use some help.

Edit: running windows 7 on a samsung laptop.

 

[sulleygold]

I.managed to get into the repair part of the windows CD. What should i do here?

 

[nommy the first]

Hello Sulleygold,

Have you tried the SFC /SCANNOW command?
If not please do so.

1. Go to the command prompt.
2. Type "sfc /scannow" without quotations.
3. Let SFC do it's thing, and when done repeat the process up to five times.

There is also a very good tutorial in the tut section, but as I am posting this from my phone, I am unable to link it or use advanced BBCode.


Good luck and keep us posted,
Nommy

 

[sulleygold]

hey nommy. Tried a few things. Went to startup repair and it said there were disk errors. It restarted now it says bootmgr is missing.

 

[nommy the first]

Hello Sulleygold,

I am back to my computer now

Can you still get in startup repair?
If so, please run chkdsk;

1. Go to Command Prompt.
2. type "chkdsk /f C:" without the quotations and replace C with the letter of your hard drive.
3. Reboot your machine and navigate back to Command Prompt.
4. Try the "SFC /SCANNOW" command again.

For the SFC command, please check method 2 in this tutorial.

You will also want to have a look at our troubleshooting guide for an unbootable Windows 7, this is the link.


Good luck and keep us posted,
Nommy

 

[sulleygold]

Chkdsk is now doing something but I dont know what because its in japanese :|

 

[sulleygold]

Still says bootmgr is missing. :/ guess ill have to try that guide. It seems pretty confusing/daunting.

 

[nommy the first]

Hmm Chkdsk shouldn't be in Japanese..

To fix the Bootmgr is missing error, please follow this tutorial.


Good luck and keep us posted,
Nommy

 

[sulleygold]

Start up repair says boot manager is missing or corrupt. It failed to repair it.

 

[sulleygold]

That didnt help either. Still says its missing. What shoulf I do now? :/

 

[sulleygold]

Scratch that. My laptop is now fully functional! By some miracle it has started working. Thank you so much for your help!

 

[sulleygold]

Kept on repeating the processes you advised me to and it eventually all came together. Really appreciate it! Now i will back up my assignments.

 

[nommy the first]

Hrm, well if Windows can't fix it, then let's fix the BCD ourselves.

   Note

I will be using C as my drive, as that is the drive that I installed Windows on. Change the letter to the drive where you installed Windows on! You must do that to be able to follow my steps!
The process will take about 10 to 20 minutes to complete.

1. Go to Command Prompt.
2. Type Bootrec /rebuilt bcd" without the quotations.
3. You'll see one of the following messages in CMD;
   1.
   Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
   Please wait, since this may take a while...
   Successfully scanned Windows installations.
   Total identified Windows installations: 0
   The operation completed successfully.
   
   2.
   Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
   Please wait, since this may take a while...
   Successfully scanned Windows installations.
   Total identified Windows installations: 1
   [1] C:\Windows
   Add installation to boot list? Yes / No / All:
   
   
   If you see 1, go to step 4.
   If you see 2, enter "Yes" without the quotations and go to step 9.
4. Type "bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup" without the quotations.
   You will get a message saying that the operation completed succesfully.
5. Type "attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s" without the quotations.
6. Type "ren c:\boot bcd bcd.old" without the quotations.
   Step 4 til 6 are basically a manual way of what the command in step 2 did automatically if you were to get message 2.
7. Type the command from step 2 again, to rebuilt BCD.
8. Type "Yes" without the quotations.
   You should get a message informing you that the operation was completed succesfully.
9. Restart your machine, and boot mgr should be fixed now

If you still get the boot mgr is missing error, I would recommend a clean install of Windows 7, as you can find here.


Good luck and keep us posted,
Nommy

 

[nommy the first]

Scratch that. My laptop is now fully functional! By some miracle it has started working. Thank you so much for your help!

Kept on repeating the processes you advised me to and it eventually all came together. Really appreciate it! Now i will back up my assignments.

Aah nice! You're welcome Glad I could help you.

Do scratch post #13, you obviously don't need to follow it.


Good luck and thanks for posting back your results,
Nommy

 

[nommy the first]

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Again, glad that I could be of assistance,
Nommy

 

[itami]

sounds like you need a new hard drive

i seen bad hard drives that prevent windows from loading

 

[nommy the first]

That won't be necessarily Itami.
Buying new hardware should be a last resort, not a quick recommendation.
In this OP's case a simple restore of Bootmgr was sufficient to solve the problem.


Nommy