Tried all the other videos that “pick up” where you said they do. This was the only one that worked for me. 4 years later and it’s still the most helpful.
My man, 4 years later, and you were an absolute life saver. I tried installing Manjaro Linux on one of my non Windows drives and for some reason it ruined the bootloader. This is the only guide that fixed the issue. Major props to you!
Hello : I'm having problems with my HP computer restarted the computer and now it's sowing Preparing Automatic Repair been watching videos on you tube and the computer won't even open when i hit ctrl alt delete or escort f1 f2 f3 f4 try them all steel wont open up nothing can some one help me to what to do thank you
I´m a brazilian computer technician since 1976 when I started to work on IBM Brazil as a engineering, and knowing how to fix their big computers at that time, and I´m still learning from You Chris... You are "The Man"... Thanks a lot!!!
Absolute lifesaver - Just a side note on the second situation - When you BCDBoot C:\windows /s (Drive letter): /f all - If you are doing it from Boot media the second (drive letter) will be the drive your USB is on not on the system reserved partition drive that you set. For example in his demonstration it would be : BCDBoot C:\windows /s D: /f all - Or it will fail to copy the boot drive
I've been a Lead Systems Engineer for decades, and I still learn from you, Chris. I had no idea of a fix to be able back up the reg file this way, so now I do, thanks to you, good sir!
It really worked for me. I shorted my Windows while creating Ubuntu dualboot. I followed your video step by step, took many trials but it worked. The second part was specially very helpful.
It is a very well done video on how to fix broken Windows startup. He is very clear and concise about what needs to be done, none of the non sense humors from other posters. I happened to have a Dell Inspiron 15 gaming laptop with i7 CPU, 16GB, discreet Nvidia 4GB GPU, 4K TFT display, that I have to do this a lot, mainly because Windows got corrupted after a DPC Watch Dog Violation error that crashed Windows. Unfortunately, Dell HW diagnostics did not find any HW errors so my computer crashed every now and then with this dumb error and no resolution for. I used similar procedures to rebuild the boot partition on this machine at least 10 times, after reloading Windows from scratch a few times prior. This video is one of the best I have seen to fix Windows boot partition.
It's 2:25 am and you saved my life! After updating the bios, I booted the system - everything worked. I don't know what happened but after a reboot the system stopped booting - blinking cursor. I was scared if the bios update didn't break something. Your advices in the video saved my system. Thank you very much
Didn't exactly know what I was doing as I was following along but I listened, followed step by step, and my issue was fixed! After the reboot I got a "We Couldn't Complete Updates Undoing Changes" error and flipped out a little ngl, but it eventually logged me on. Thank you so much! You just saved me stress, time and money. 🤝
Chris, I can't tell you how helpful this post was. Including the bcdboot cmd is ESSENTIAL to any good boot repair. I'd been struggling with a messed up vhdx, and this did the trick. Saved hours and hours of work. Many thanks!!
after installing Ubuntu I messed up windows boot and spent 6 hours trying everything Then I searched on RUclips and the moment I saw chris in the thumbnail I knew I almost got it figured and in 2 minutes I got it all done. Awesome guy.
Thank goodness. Every time I break my computer I have to go to RUclips. This is the very best video on this particular subject. And this is in English!!!! Straight forward and to the point. Just and excellent video!!!!!!!!!
While your tutorial didn't fixed my issue, I'm glad that helped me out. My installation is somehow corrupted, but at least I'm no longer stuck at Automatic Repair. Edit: It turns out it has a minor issue that I can bypass, so thank you for the video!
You helped me so much with this Video 2 Years ago!!! My Musiccomputer was no more able to start up. I have made a Clone of my System Harddrive and i made step by step in the comandprompt what you showed me in your Video. It was for me like a wonder because after this my Music Computer started again up, my whole Musiccomputer worked again and i still work with this repaired Windowssystem ! Few months ago i had the same start up Problem with my Computergraphics System. I folowed again the steps of this Video and also my Computergraphics System is repaired and again working !!! Thank you so much for your Videos, i can learn so much from you !!!
Thanks for this video Chris, way better than most! This worked for stop code "inaccessible boot device" after a power failure, but in my case had to add one more step: boot into safe mode (4) once after this process, then it booted normally again.
I had this issue with booting Win11 today and I was amazed how many misleading videos were out there on RUclips that somehow never fixed it at all. Your tutorial helped me eventually. Thanks!
My M.2 drive is now restored thanks to this excellent video. The boot was corrupted after I changed my processor core settings with msconfig, I tried several methods to recover, but all failed in continuous loops, I neven tried to repair all files within windows that were changed on the date the system did not boot, changing attributes and permissions to each file, but that did not work, so I restored all files back. I kicked myself for not going here first and investigate the partitions, a huge thankyou, I am now subscribed :-)
You saved me hours of work, I had to see the video many times but at the end I was able to understand. Your content is amazing! Keep up the good work :)
This video is a game saver... Thanks so much! I spent hours doing anything and everything else. Under 10 minutes with you and my laptop is booting again!
Today I have tried to duplicate this procedure and the first problem I encountered was starting from USB boot media( Shift f10) - the cmd window, which opened and said Administrator: X:\windows\system32\cmd all the way up in the frame of this cmd window.. But the inside of the cmd window there was "X:\Sources" wich is not, what shows in this video. So I do not know how to bring it to X:\windows\system32 I tried by just ignoring it and so it went like X:\Sources>bootrec /fixboot and it worked! I have no way to express my million thanks to you, man! This saved my weekend!
Thank you Chris!! This video saved my computer. My 15-yr old found your page so we went step by step together through the command prompts. The laptop is resetting as I type this and before watching we were unable to get past Bitlocker. If we ever encounter another problem we will come straight to you!
The steps in this repair procedure are relatively straightforward except for the part about changing the letters on two of the volumes (3:28). It would help to explain the necessity of doing this. I have the Command Prompt open and I am attempting to make these repairs. The next step is to change the letters. It would also help those of us who have some, but not a lot, of computer technical knowledge to explain in greater detail what the labels used to describe the listed volumes mean and in which volume the BIOS files are located. On my computer, the diskpart is showing five volumes. One says Windows. One says Recovery. And one has no identifying label. On the video, the technician is only having to identify and work with two volumes. In my case, the volume containing Windows is clearly labeled. But I don't know which of the other two volumes is the correct one to re-letter. Is it the volume that says Recovery, or is it the volume that has no identifying label? Volume 0 E DVD/ROM 0 B Volume 1 C Windows 908 GB Volume 2 F 836 GB Volume 3 D Recovery 21 GB Volume 4 Fat32 260 GB Hidden
I can't recall what the solution was, if any. I must have given up because what I ended up doing is downloading onto a thumb drive from the Microsoft website, using a different computer, a free copy of Windows. That was quick and easy to do. When I plugged the thumb drive into a USB port on the malfunctioning computer a Windows setup program appeared and it was downhill from there. The malfunctioning HP laptop was several years old and no doubt had a lot of assorted problems, corrupted files, etc. After reinstalling Windows it runs like a new machine. Good luck!
Chris man you are brilliant, I am not big on technical stuff but following your tutorial step by step I managed to fix my laptop which I had preety much given up on. I have liked and subscribed to your channel. Thank you so much! Respect man.
Thank you very much! It worked! I've watched many other videos and nothing worked. Spend a full day to resolve that issue. And finally it works now. Many thanks!
Man, you just saved me! I was getting ready to install all my system again, but decided to try your video as a last resource. Thank you so much! Just subscribed, you know your stuff.
Pressed the bell icon ,liked ,shared,and SUBSCRIBED because this man deserves it .The commands were so much useful. And for the first time anything got fixed by my hands
It worked 💯💯💯my laptop wouldn’t go past our passcode screen. I followed everything step by step and restarted and there!!!!! Everything came back all my apps and files!! 😊
Great video!!!! This is useful information I'm going to try the next time I help a friend with a broken Windows system that can't boot. THANK YOU for posting this!
Thanks for your help, I just bought my laptop almost a month ago and I noticed the screen was blue today, I follow many tutorial on RUclips on how to fix it but still came out the same. I came across your channel and followed your tutorial and it works thanks alot.
I thought it only reported the amount of new Windows installations. It could be indeed broken. I have had enough of th egeneric and uselesss guides that overwhelm the internet and give wrong or non related instructions. I will remember these steps and I hope to find more actual explanations of what stuff does. Thank you a LOT!
Honestly i cant thank you enough. I was customizing my PC to have the windows 7 startup sound, and when i restarted it, i got that screen; you're the only guy with the exact same problem, and you managed to get it fixed. Its 1am on a school night and i should be sleeping but i was trying to fix my pc... i will remember you till i die
I do computer repair as a hobby and almost 90% of Windows 10 problems are this kind of error. I have been trying million times to fix it with different commands, most of the ones you used here in this video and I never succeeded. For example: when I change the volume letter and restart the computer the letter was changed back to the previous one and the error continue... But this method you show here is slightly different in the order of the steps. So I'm going to try and see what happens. If this works I will be grateful for life, this would save me a lot of time because I always end up reinstalling windows
Thank u so much. Tried other youtube vids but yours explains so clearly and completely. I know bits and pieces about computers but I felt sure I would end up with a reinstall/ early backup restore this time. Really good to learn how to do these things anyway. Will defo look at your other vids. Excellent stuff 🙂 Will also follow advice about registry backups as well. Been looking at Linux. Becoming more encouraged to take the plunge every day👍
Yo do u think u can help me out I’ve been trying to Fix my pc for 2 days and I can’t fix it everything in this process worked except the C:\windows /s g: /f ALLit says failure When attempting to copy boot files
Everything is going quite well up to 4:40 when you have to type in the next line. Beyond this point when i type in the full cmd line (bcdboot c: etc) i'm getting the error: "failure when attempting to copy boot files". And the problem is also that it's kind of more confusing for me, because when i open cmd prompt it does start in a different path. (x:\sources) And also my volumes have different letters.
When I type in the cmd line bootsect c:\windows /s g: /f ALL I get "failure when initializing library system volume." when i open cmd prompt it does start in a different path. (x:\sources)
Thanks a lot!!! I've watched only God knows how many videos for over 6hrs now and none of them actually helped, till I came across this. I just can't thank you enough👏🏾
I downloaded and installed the 20H2 update on my windows 10 2 days ago. Before my issues started, my antivirus program promoted me to restart my PC to quarantine one folder associated with the update, I cancelled it. Later on, I shut my PC down, turned back it on to finish up, thats when my desktop started blinking, turned it off and got stuck on this error. This fixed the blinking and the boot error.
Tried a few other videos before this one. This worked for my Lenovo ThinkPad with ssd - Tech Fixers over the phone were quoting potentially £200 to fix inc.backing Up drive, all suggested my Samsung 2tb ssd may have broke - not the case! 😅 Thanks for your help, I'm self employed my consultant - I now do not need to worry about a complete reinstall and resetting up Photoshop etc and all the 100s of software bits that I've setup over time. 👍🙏👌
Great video but unfortunately it didn't work for me. For some reason my EFI partition is on volume 1 and my windows partition is volume 0. Could that be affecting it?
Hay I know it's one year late but my bf has the same issue did u get it fixed somehow maybe? I just looked at like 20 videos and were still not one step closer to getting it fixed.
@@Ta3alemenglish he got a temporary one that he switched to see if the graphic card is the problem and so we found out that it was. Maybe u can look for that 🌹
Im still stuck in the loop as well. Same blue screen as the beginning of your video. I did notice when i did the rebuild along with you there was a part that said couldnt copy disk after the bcd i believe. Everything else said it was succsessful.
@@MrEddieG93 I ended up taking mine to a computer technician. He managed to fix it. None of these RUclips videos worked for me. I watched and followed a whole lot of 'em, but none of 'em worked.
you made my day, abslut brilliant. after 3 days with this constant boot loop, i found your video and was able to fix this problem with your instructions. thank you so much
The best explanation and method. It's working completely fine after following this method. I was following it from other sources no one explained why access was denied. But you did. Thank you so much.
Be careful with this or you can screw up your PC even more, in my case it got even more screwed up and now a blue screen appears and then it turns off, I can no longer enter advanced options or anything.
I had not created any restore point earlier so it didn't work for me. Then I just took out my hard disk and connected it to another computer as an external HDD and transferred all the C (windows) Drive data to another drive. Then reconnected the hard disk to the laptop and did a fresh installation of Windows.
If you have 2 or more disks installes, don't forget to check if you have an EFI partition on both. If you have that on both then you'll have problems when running the /rebuildbcd command. Just remove the disk where there is no OS and it should be fine. I had two EFI because I bought a new SSD, an when transfering the data from one to another, I forgot to delete that EFI partition.
I don't ever comment on anything, but thank you. I'm in that area of my knowledge where I know enough to be dangerous but don't know how to save myself sometimes. I thought my windows install was fubar and this saved me.
Absolutely awesome instructions! I was helping a friend convert and old Dell over to his new Dell, and was having boot issues. I suspect it was the MBR/GPT issue. Your instructions were perfectly done and very helpful. Thanks man!
Usually, I dont comment on videos. But this one saved me tons of headaches. I was converting uefi to mbr, but my mobo didnt support it so I had to manually change some items and enable CSM in order to boot properly. Thank you!
Thanks! It worked like a charm in Windows 11. Notice: it didnt work for me until I had the exact same version of Win 11 on the bootable USB. Example: if the OS you want to repair is Windows 11 22H2 you'll need a Win 11 22H2 bootable usb, it didnt work for me by using a newer 23H2 bootable usb.
Got the error code 0xc000014c . Tried a lot of suggestions with no fix. Now I'm stuck in a blue recovery screen that says to Press enter to try again, Press 1 to enter recovery, Press 8 for start up, Press ESC for UEFI however computer does not allow any of these actions and after about 2 min. computer shuts off. The Computer is a 2 yr old HP Windows 10 . This all started when trying to upgrade to Windows 11. Computer crashed and is junk right now. Not happy HP or with Microsoft !
This did not help at all. I followed the video instructions step by step, exactly how you did it and my computer responded on the exact same ways. However, it has only worsened the problem as now I am stuck in a Recovery window and am unable to get back to the trouble shooting window. I'm fairly certain it has just corrupted my system 32 and now I will lose all the files on my computer...
Thank you so much for making this video. I tried working with HP support and they were unable to fix the issue. Their solution was to reinstall the OS. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge with us!
Hi Chris, great video! I have a question though. I cannot boot into my Windows 10 PC (normally). I can boot into safe-mode which is where I am entering the commands (via the CMD window). My C: drive is shown as "System" and that is the drive where Windows resides. I don't have any drive/partition for "System Reserved". In my case, would the following commands use C: in place of what you referred to as your system reserved (G:)? bcdboot c:\Windows /s : /f ALL bcdboot c:\Windows /s C: /f ALL Also, I tried (I got the two error messages on the last two commands): bootrec / fixmbr bootrec / fixboot (Access is denied) bootrec / scanos (The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry) bootrec / rebuildbcd (The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry) Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Kevin.
just like all the others.. sad to say this did not fix my bootup issue.. and the search continues. thanks for sharing .. that last part I will be using for sure.
5:02 I got an error saying "failure when attempting to copy boot files" after this I exited and restart and now I have an error message when I boot up of 0xc000007 saying my PC needs repaired . Not sure anyone can help with this?
Nope, if you want to torture yourself, watch the vid and see how Chris actually fixes a Windows installating through Windows' command line. Twice! Would have been easier going the Linux route ... but ... that's Chris, not always going for easiest. ;)
I've previously left a comment on this video but, once again, it helped dig me out of a hole. So thank you once again for leaving such an informative and clear video.
Oh my goodness!!! Thank you thank you thank you 🙏 SO MUCH!!! I’d like to think I’m just barely enough tech savvy to figure most things out myself…however, this Dell desktop was driving me crazy with this “startup loop” debacle! I watched a ton of vids and nada solved my problem until a mere THIRTY MINS AGO I watched this video and.. voila! My dell desktop is up and running purring like a kitten- startup screen issue a thing of the past! Thanks again!
OMFFFFFG!!! Thank you so much! I was tearing my hair out! I installed some new ram this morning then all of a sudden no boot devices were found even though the bios detected all the storage devices. Followed these instructions and BINGO!
Tried all the other videos that “pick up” where you said they do. This was the only one that worked for me. 4 years later and it’s still the most helpful.
My man, 4 years later, and you were an absolute life saver. I tried installing Manjaro Linux on one of my non Windows drives and for some reason it ruined the bootloader. This is the only guide that fixed the issue.
Major props to you!
this was important that you replied,,. this reply saved me time. i was headed for two more hours instead of finishing this rebuild... so grateful
Hello : I'm having problems with my HP computer restarted the computer and now it's sowing Preparing Automatic Repair been watching videos on you tube
and the computer won't even open when i hit ctrl alt delete or escort f1 f2 f3 f4
try them all steel wont open up nothing can some one help me to what to do
thank you
I´m a brazilian computer technician since 1976 when I started to work on IBM Brazil as a engineering, and knowing how to fix their big computers at that time, and I´m still learning from You Chris... You are "The Man"... Thanks a lot!!!
Chris always gets to the core of problems and explains properly without wasting words. Experts learn from him.
He sucks, my issue is still there, his explanation are very confusing
Absolute lifesaver - Just a side note on the second situation - When you BCDBoot C:\windows /s (Drive letter): /f all - If you are doing it from Boot media the second (drive letter) will be the drive your USB is on not on the system reserved partition drive that you set. For example in his demonstration it would be : BCDBoot C:\windows /s D: /f all - Or it will fail to copy the boot drive
Fixing Windows 10 is pretty much a course on it's own!
Ok
@@ccslorider5109 that's all you had to say?
@@Mkhwlani yeah!
@@ccslorider5109 but why?
Hmmm
I've been a Lead Systems Engineer for decades, and I still learn from you, Chris. I had no idea of a fix to be able back up the reg file this way, so now I do, thanks to you, good sir!
A lead system engineer that uses a RUclips video? Should be you to know what to do. No words.
It really worked for me. I shorted my Windows while creating Ubuntu dualboot. I followed your video step by step, took many trials but it worked. The second part was specially very helpful.
It is a very well done video on how to fix broken Windows startup. He is very clear and concise about what needs to be done, none of the non sense humors from other posters. I happened to have a Dell Inspiron 15 gaming laptop with i7 CPU, 16GB, discreet Nvidia 4GB GPU, 4K TFT display, that I have to do this a lot, mainly because Windows got corrupted after a DPC Watch Dog Violation error that crashed Windows. Unfortunately, Dell HW diagnostics did not find any HW errors so my computer crashed every now and then with this dumb error and no resolution for. I used similar procedures to rebuild the boot partition on this machine at least 10 times, after reloading Windows from scratch a few times prior. This video is one of the best I have seen to fix Windows boot partition.
It's 2:25 am and you saved my life!
After updating the bios, I booted the system - everything worked. I don't know what happened but after a reboot the system stopped booting - blinking cursor. I was scared if the bios update didn't break something. Your advices in the video saved my system. Thank you very much
Didn't exactly know what I was doing as I was following along but I listened, followed step by step, and my issue was fixed! After the reboot I got a "We Couldn't Complete Updates Undoing Changes" error and flipped out a little ngl, but it eventually logged me on. Thank you so much! You just saved me stress, time and money. 🤝
Chris, I can't tell you how helpful this post was. Including the bcdboot cmd is ESSENTIAL to any good boot repair. I'd been struggling with a messed up vhdx, and this did the trick. Saved hours and hours of work. Many thanks!!
after installing Ubuntu I messed up windows boot and spent 6 hours trying everything Then I searched on RUclips and the moment I saw chris in the thumbnail I knew I almost got it figured and in 2 minutes I got it all done. Awesome guy.
Thank goodness. Every time I break my computer I have to go to RUclips. This is the very best video on this particular subject. And this is in English!!!! Straight forward and to the point. Just and excellent video!!!!!!!!!
While your tutorial didn't fixed my issue, I'm glad that helped me out.
My installation is somehow corrupted, but at least I'm no longer stuck at Automatic Repair.
Edit: It turns out it has a minor issue that I can bypass, so thank you for the video!
You helped me so much with this Video 2 Years ago!!! My Musiccomputer was no more able to start up. I have made a Clone of my System Harddrive and i made step by step in the comandprompt what you showed me in your Video. It was for me like a wonder because after this my Music Computer started again up, my whole Musiccomputer worked again and i still work with this repaired Windowssystem ! Few months ago i had the same start up Problem with my Computergraphics System. I folowed again the steps of this Video and also my Computergraphics System is repaired and again working !!!
Thank you so much for your Videos, i can learn so much from you !!!
Thanks for this video Chris, way better than most! This worked for stop code "inaccessible boot device" after a power failure, but in my case had to add one more step: boot into safe mode (4) once after this process, then it booted normally again.
I love you Chris Titus (plz don't tell my wife). [Heartfelt] thank you. Only took me 15 hours to find you...
You were the only one that actually had a fix that worked! Thank you so much!
LOLLL PLE DONT TELL MY WIFE XDDDD
Many, MANY thanks for this video. The amount of headache and time you’ve saved me is huge. Thanks again
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I had this issue with booting Win11 today and I was amazed how many misleading videos were out there on RUclips that somehow never fixed it at all. Your tutorial helped me eventually. Thanks!
My M.2 drive is now restored thanks to this excellent video. The boot was corrupted after I changed my processor core settings with msconfig, I tried several methods to recover, but all failed in continuous loops, I neven tried to repair all files within windows that were changed on the date the system did not boot, changing attributes and permissions to each file, but that did not work, so I restored all files back. I kicked myself for not going here first and investigate the partitions, a huge thankyou, I am now subscribed :-)
Thank you Chris! It worked! It's surprising how inconvenient it is to do this, but thanks to you, it was a lot less painful.
Does this deleted your data or programs or was the pc just like the day before the error occurred?
You saved me hours of work, I had to see the video many times but at the end I was able to understand. Your content is amazing! Keep up the good work :)
Do you face this 0xc0000098 error?
Does this deleted your data?
This video is a game saver... Thanks so much! I spent hours doing anything and everything else. Under 10 minutes with you and my laptop is booting again!
By what method man nothing worked with me
Is the data gone?
Today I have tried to duplicate this procedure and the first problem I encountered was starting from USB boot media( Shift f10) - the cmd window, which opened and said Administrator: X:\windows\system32\cmd all the way up in the frame of this cmd window..
But the inside of the cmd window there was "X:\Sources" wich is not, what shows in this video. So I do not know how to bring it to X:\windows\system32
I tried by just ignoring it and so it went like X:\Sources>bootrec /fixboot and it worked!
I have no way to express my million thanks to you, man! This saved my weekend!
Thank you Chris!! This video saved my computer. My 15-yr old found your page so we went step by step together through the command prompts. The laptop is resetting as I type this and before watching we were unable to get past Bitlocker. If we ever encounter another problem we will come straight to you!
Thank you! This was awesome. The most thorough video on boot recovery I’ve seen yet. It really helped
Holy moly, I must confess I wasn't expecting this to work at all!
Thank you so much! Definitely subscribing to the channel!
Best regards!
It's been 2 years after my comment and this video keeps saving me again and again. Thanks, Chris!
The steps in this repair procedure are relatively straightforward except for the part about changing the letters on two of the volumes (3:28). It would help to explain the necessity of doing this. I have the Command Prompt open and I am attempting to make these repairs. The next step is to change the letters. It would also help those of us who have some, but not a lot, of computer technical knowledge to explain in greater detail what the labels used to describe the listed volumes mean and in which volume the BIOS files are located. On my computer, the diskpart is showing five volumes. One says Windows. One says Recovery. And one has no identifying label. On the video, the technician is only having to identify and work with two volumes. In my case, the volume containing Windows is clearly labeled. But I don't know which of the other two volumes is the correct one to re-letter. Is it the volume that says Recovery, or is it the volume that has no identifying label?
Volume 0 E DVD/ROM 0 B
Volume 1 C Windows 908 GB
Volume 2 F 836 GB
Volume 3 D Recovery 21 GB
Volume 4 Fat32 260 GB Hidden
I can't recall what the solution was, if any. I must have given up because what I ended up doing is downloading onto a thumb drive from the Microsoft website, using a different computer, a free copy of Windows. That was quick and easy to do. When I plugged the thumb drive into a USB port on the malfunctioning computer a Windows setup program appeared and it was downhill from there.
The malfunctioning HP laptop was several years old and no doubt had a lot of assorted problems, corrupted files, etc. After reinstalling Windows it runs like a new machine.
Good luck!
@SwifT Cross hey can you send me please..i have the same problem thanks
@SwifT Cross send the video?
@SwifT Cross there isn’t a vid above send a link to it
@SwifT Cross wdym
I give you 20 star because just following this saved me from losing my Data. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
I never make comments on videos but this IS crazy helpful. The only tutorial to actually fix a problem. You are a legend man.
Chris man you are brilliant, I am not big on technical stuff but following your tutorial step by step I managed to fix my laptop which I had preety much given up on. I have liked and subscribed to your channel. Thank you so much! Respect man.
I don’t normally write comments but I wanted to thank you for this video! Appreciate it!
U ARE A LEGEND. I AM DEFINITELY SUBBING. I LITERALLY WATCHED 100 VIDS AND THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT FIXED. I LOVE YOU
4 years later and this is still the best resource to fix this issue. Thank you, sir!
Thank you very much! It worked! I've watched many other videos and nothing worked. Spend a full day to resolve that issue. And finally it works now. Many thanks!
We found the best human being on earth according to my cousin 🙄💜🔥
Man, you just saved me! I was getting ready to install all my system again, but decided to try your video as a last resource. Thank you so much! Just subscribed, you know your stuff.
Lol
Did it deleted your data?
@@alejandromanuelfernandezme4246 no
Pressed the bell icon ,liked ,shared,and SUBSCRIBED because this man deserves it .The commands were so much useful.
And for the first time anything got fixed by my hands
Thank you soo much, i was getting the error "reboot and select proper boot device", followed every step and now my windows is back
It worked 💯💯💯my laptop wouldn’t go past our passcode screen. I followed everything step by step and restarted and there!!!!! Everything came back all my apps and files!! 😊
Great video!!!! This is useful information I'm going to try the next time I help a friend with a broken Windows system that can't boot. THANK YOU for posting this!
No way, I somehow managed to revive my old laptop simply by reassigning the C drive. Thanks!
We almost lost it, thanks for this one.
Thanks for your help, I just bought my laptop almost a month ago and I noticed the screen was blue today, I follow many tutorial on RUclips on how to fix it but still came out the same. I came across your channel and followed your tutorial and it works thanks alot.
I thought it only reported the amount of new Windows installations. It could be indeed broken. I have had enough of th egeneric and uselesss guides that overwhelm the internet and give wrong or non related instructions. I will remember these steps and I hope to find more actual explanations of what stuff does. Thank you a LOT!
your a life saver, man i thought i had to reformat my drives and iso
*you're
Did it deleted your data ?
whenever i press turn off and then boot it back up i’m just stuck at the infinite boot loading screen where it powers off and back on
Me too, it works for the day but I shut it off again and I have to retype this whole mess
Anyone know how to fix this yet?
@@syndee8302 I’m having this issue… still nothing works and bought a whole new mobo and cpu……….
@@Mike604 figure out how to fix it?
Hey same issue do you remember how you fixed it ?
I am officially switching to Linux
Frfr
Lmfaoooooooo
Honestly i cant thank you enough. I was customizing my PC to have the windows 7 startup sound, and when i restarted it, i got that screen; you're the only guy with the exact same problem, and you managed to get it fixed. Its 1am on a school night and i should be sleeping but i was trying to fix my pc... i will remember you till i die
Hi, how did you put the windows 7 startup sound on windows 10?
@@AMOREopal search up "how do change startup sound with winaerotweaker" for a more in depth guide on it
I do computer repair as a hobby and almost 90% of Windows 10 problems are this kind of error.
I have been trying million times to fix it with different commands, most of the ones you used here in this video and I never succeeded.
For example: when I change the volume letter and restart the computer the letter was changed back to the previous one and the error continue...
But this method you show here is slightly different in the order of the steps. So I'm going to try and see what happens.
If this works I will be grateful for life, this would save me a lot of time because I always end up reinstalling windows
Thanks man
I was trying to recover windows for 5 days 😭
Thank u so much. Tried other youtube vids but yours explains so clearly and completely. I know bits and pieces about computers but I felt sure I would end up with a reinstall/ early backup restore this time. Really good to learn how to do these things anyway. Will defo look at your other vids. Excellent stuff 🙂 Will also follow advice about registry backups as well. Been looking at Linux. Becoming more encouraged to take the plunge every day👍
Thanks man, I have been struggling from 3 days, this fixed it
Yo do u think u can help me out I’ve been trying to Fix my pc for 2 days and I can’t fix it everything in this process worked except the C:\windows /s g: /f ALLit says failure When attempting to copy boot files
Same
@@astrenfn8526did you fix that
Finally, a competent youtube tutorial and explanation. I recommend and thank you sir!
You saved me from reinstallation of win 10. Very good tips. I got solution following your video till 7th minutes. Very useful and time saving tips.
Thank bro, I starting think I would have to completely reinstall windows
That’s what I’ve in mind now
Everything is going quite well up to 4:40 when you have to type in the next line.
Beyond this point when i type in the full cmd line (bcdboot c: etc) i'm getting the error: "failure when attempting to copy boot files".
And the problem is also that it's kind of more confusing for me, because when i open cmd prompt it does start in a different path. (x:\sources)
And also my volumes have different letters.
i‘m also stuck there…any idea what the problem is?
@christitustech Same issue
Go back into diskpart, find the fat32 volume and assign a letter to it, say "h".
Exit diskpart, then use the command
bcdboot c:\windows /s h: /f UEFI
@@forget6917 Thanks, i will try that
When I type in the cmd line bootsect c:\windows /s g: /f ALL
I get "failure when initializing library system volume."
when i open cmd prompt it does start in a different path. (x:\sources)
Idk why it feels like I'm the only person in the world that got this problem
No Matter how many videos I follow nothing works
Sameee
saaammme, if y'all figure it out pllease lmk what u did
@@copenhagen_chip what i did is i took a backup of all of the important files and reinstalled windows
The funny thing is I had the same problem fixed it on accident and forgot how I did it and now it’s back :(
Same!
Thanks a lot!!! I've watched only God knows how many videos for over 6hrs now and none of them actually helped, till I came across this.
I just can't thank you enough👏🏾
I downloaded and installed the 20H2 update on my windows 10 2 days ago. Before my issues started, my antivirus program promoted me to restart my PC to quarantine one folder associated with the update, I cancelled it. Later on, I shut my PC down, turned back it on to finish up, thats when my desktop started blinking, turned it off and got stuck on this error. This fixed the blinking and the boot error.
Tried a few other videos before this one. This worked for my Lenovo ThinkPad with ssd - Tech Fixers over the phone were quoting potentially £200 to fix inc.backing Up drive, all suggested my Samsung 2tb ssd may have broke - not the case! 😅
Thanks for your help, I'm self employed my consultant - I now do not need to worry about a complete reinstall and resetting up Photoshop etc and all the 100s of software bits that I've setup over time. 👍🙏👌
Great video but unfortunately it didn't work for me. For some reason my EFI partition is on volume 1 and my windows partition is volume 0. Could that be affecting it?
It didn't work for me too
Hay I know it's one year late but my bf has the same issue did u get it fixed somehow maybe? I just looked at like 20 videos and were still not one step closer to getting it fixed.
@@Sickkarma did you find a solution
@@Ta3alemenglish actually the problem my bf had was that his rtx2080 ti was broken so he got sent a new one and then it worked..
@@Ta3alemenglish he got a temporary one that he switched to see if the graphic card is the problem and so we found out that it was. Maybe u can look for that 🌹
Did all the steps ,and I’m still in the loop lol
what now? still in the loop?
Which part?
Im still stuck in the loop as well. Same blue screen as the beginning of your video. I did notice when i did the rebuild along with you there was a part that said couldnt copy disk after the bcd i believe. Everything else said it was succsessful.
Same
Reset the pc or buy a new disk
"Failure when attempting to copy boot files." What am I should do next?
same
Got the same problem.
Same, anyone found the solution?
@@MrEddieG93 I ended up taking mine to a computer technician. He managed to fix it. None of these RUclips videos worked for me. I watched and followed a whole lot of 'em, but none of 'em worked.
@@LincyMcGabby roughly what did they charge you if you don’t mind answering? Thank you.
you made my day,
abslut brilliant.
after 3 days with this constant boot loop, i found your video
and was able to fix this problem with your instructions.
thank you so much
The best explanation and method. It's working completely fine after following this method. I was following it from other sources no one explained why access was denied. But you did. Thank you so much.
thanks this is nice info, i sometimes i need, to help friends out many many thank you chris !!!
Be careful with this or you can screw up your PC even more, in my case it got even more screwed up and now a blue screen appears and then it turns off, I can no longer enter advanced options or anything.
Same here buddy, same thing happened to me. Have you find any solution for this please tell???
@@gouravsingh3016 followed this you tuber Titus through command prompt and rebooted and threw recovery drive to try to automatically repair my repairs
I had not created any restore point earlier so it didn't work for me.
Then I just took out my hard disk and connected it to another computer as an external HDD and transferred all the C (windows) Drive data to another drive. Then reconnected the hard disk to the laptop and did a fresh installation of Windows.
@@gouravsingh3016 Sorry for late brother, unfortunately I had to reinstall the windows and thus format the PC: p
If you have 2 or more disks installes, don't forget to check if you have an EFI partition on both. If you have that on both then you'll have problems when running the /rebuildbcd command. Just remove the disk where there is no OS and it should be fine.
I had two EFI because I bought a new SSD, an when transfering the data from one to another, I forgot to delete that EFI partition.
Meaning disconnect it from the sata having the same issue about to disconnect from sata
I don't ever comment on anything, but thank you. I'm in that area of my knowledge where I know enough to be dangerous but don't know how to save myself sometimes. I thought my windows install was fubar and this saved me.
Absolutely awesome instructions! I was helping a friend convert and old Dell over to his new Dell, and was having boot issues. I suspect it was the MBR/GPT issue. Your instructions were perfectly done and very helpful. Thanks man!
Oh man, you saved my PC, THANKS!
When I type the command select disk 0, I get “the disk specified is not valid”. I really don’t know what to do
Same issue I’m having now looking for help and haven’t been successful yet 😢
It just bring me back to Automatic repair 😥
Same
Same
same here, did you fix it?
@@alfredolx1 no😭
Same😪
Usually, I dont comment on videos. But this one saved me tons of headaches. I was converting uefi to mbr, but my mobo didnt support it so I had to manually change some items and enable CSM in order to boot properly. Thank you!
Thanks! It worked like a charm in Windows 11.
Notice: it didnt work for me until I had the exact same version of Win 11 on the bootable USB. Example: if the OS you want to repair is Windows 11 22H2 you'll need a Win 11 22H2 bootable usb, it didnt work for me by using a newer 23H2 bootable usb.
*need help* when I do "list vol" I only have c:/windows and SYSTEM. The last one is hidden and it is FAT32. What should I do next???
I have the same thing , what did you do about it
did you ever figure out what to do about the SYSTEM partition which was FAT32 rather than NTFS?
@@tom8437 not yet.
Got the error code 0xc000014c . Tried a lot of suggestions with no fix. Now I'm stuck in a blue recovery screen that says to Press enter to try again, Press 1 to enter recovery, Press 8 for start up, Press ESC for UEFI however computer does not allow any of these actions and after about 2 min. computer shuts off. The Computer is a 2 yr old HP Windows 10 . This all started when trying to upgrade to Windows 11. Computer crashed and is junk right now. Not happy HP or with Microsoft !
How did you get it fixed?
This did not help at all. I followed the video instructions step by step, exactly how you did it and my computer responded on the exact same ways. However, it has only worsened the problem as now I am stuck in a Recovery window and am unable to get back to the trouble shooting window. I'm fairly certain it has just corrupted my system 32 and now I will lose all the files on my computer...
Just like me,unfortunately.
Yoo same bro, it sais that my computer needs a repair… Did you fixed it yet? And if you did, what method dis you used? Im desperate bro
Mine also
same here 😢
Now I have to find a way to download 6GB😢😔
Thank you so much for making this video. I tried working with HP support and they were unable to fix the issue. Their solution was to reinstall the OS. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge with us!
After about 5 hours of research, I finally came across this video and managed to fix my computer. Thank you.
I couldn't find System Reserved in Diskpart
Hi Chris, great video! I have a question though. I cannot boot into my Windows 10 PC (normally). I can boot into safe-mode which is where I am entering the commands (via the CMD window). My C: drive is shown as "System" and that is the drive where Windows resides. I don't have any drive/partition for "System Reserved". In my case, would the following commands use C: in place of what you referred to as your system reserved (G:)?
bcdboot c:\Windows /s : /f ALL
bcdboot c:\Windows /s C: /f ALL
Also, I tried (I got the two error messages on the last two commands):
bootrec / fixmbr
bootrec / fixboot (Access is denied)
bootrec / scanos (The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry)
bootrec / rebuildbcd (The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry)
Thank you for your help!
Sincerely, Kevin.
You found a solution yet?
@@stephan8309 did you ?? I’m lost and I have the same problem
just like all the others.. sad to say this did not fix my bootup issue.. and the search continues. thanks for sharing .. that last part I will be using for sure.
Finally!!! Someone who knows what he's actually doing. I wish this video came up on top when searching for a solution. Thanks a million. Following.
Hello at 5:22 it says “failure when attempting to copy boot files”
@@NanoBaiter idk i just reinstalled windows
hey man when i tried restarting my PC once again it said the same thing i followed word for word and it said the same things
Same
@@leafdude69420 same problem here, did you fix it? Or did you have to re-install windows on a flashdrive?
@@edpena4895 idk
At 2:38 when I typed "list vol" I don't see a Volume that has "System Rese" as a label. How do I fix this?
Same thing here bro
@@KIKPH4ZE did you find a fix
You beautiful man, this worked for me, i had alot of files not backed up and i was panicking but this saved me thanks alot
I was up for 12hours trying to fix this issue and here comes this vid and problem solved thank you
5:02 I got an error saying "failure when attempting to copy boot files" after this I exited and restart and now I have an error message when I boot up of 0xc000007 saying my PC needs repaired . Not sure anyone can help with this?
same thing happened to me
same here :((
just happened to me too
same with me
@@hyphinx Ended with reinstalling Windows. Tried everything. Spent about one whole day.
It says “failure when attempting to copy boot files”
Same problem
Have you done this with an installation medium?
Rice Cake ?
ray did you ever fix this pc.?
Effin’ same🙄
Without watching the video yet. Is the answer insert Linux media installer click install?
Yup, it is :d
Nope, if you want to torture yourself, watch the vid and see how Chris actually fixes a Windows installating through Windows' command line. Twice!
Would have been easier going the Linux route ... but ... that's Chris, not always going for easiest. ;)
Isn't that the answer to all my Windows videos? Although you have to wait for my outro to hear me say it haha.
@@ChrisTitusTech It is
I've previously left a comment on this video but, once again, it helped dig me out of a hole. So thank you once again for leaving such an informative and clear video.
Thank you so so so much man....I was searching from 2 days and finally got my windows back without reinstallation from your help
You save my time, I fixed "reboot and select proper boot device error". Thanks!
I decided to install a new Windows 11, but after watching a couple of videos I saw your tutorial.
That saved my data.
Whats the point of upgrading from windows 10 to 11 if it occurs on 11 too😅
chris titus you’re the goat if it wasn’t for you i would’ve had to reinstall windows, thank you
Actually worked for me, but without changing volumes letters. Had to leave them mixed up. Thank you.
Oh my goodness!!! Thank you thank you thank you 🙏 SO MUCH!!! I’d like to think I’m just barely enough tech savvy to figure most things out myself…however, this Dell desktop was driving me crazy with this “startup loop” debacle! I watched a ton of vids and nada solved my problem until a mere THIRTY MINS AGO I watched this video and.. voila! My dell desktop is up and running purring like a kitten- startup screen issue a thing of the past! Thanks again!
OMFFFFFG!!! Thank you so much! I was tearing my hair out! I installed some new ram this morning then all of a sudden no boot devices were found even though the bios detected all the storage devices. Followed these instructions and BINGO!