Windows 8.1 won't boot. Recovery didn't help

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  • dino85
    PCHF Member
    • Jan 2022
    • 1

    #1

    Windows 8.1 won't boot. Recovery didn't help

    Hello!

    Desktop computer, ASROCK UEFI, Windows 8.1. x64, SSD disk. disk is healthy..

    So BSOD appeard on my computer saying that it encountered a problem. After restart it says: File: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD. Error code: 0xc000000f. Few times i got different error message: File: \Windows\System32\drivers\ACPI.sys. Error code: 0xc0000242

    After trying to recover it with bootrec /fixmbr…fixboot…rebuildbcd… and writing Yes to add installation to boot list it says: the requested system device cannot be found.

    I tried making the disk active and it didn’t help. Every solution i found on google end up the the same.

    One possible problem/solution i found is that the EFI partition is lost or corrupted and i need to fix/recreate that.

    Diskpart says my windows disk has 2 partitions: Partition 1 - Primary-729mb-offset 1024mb… Partition 2 - Primary-232gb-offset 731mb

    I don’t see EFI written anywhere and it says all disks are NFTS (btw i have no idea what all those terms mean). In solutions i found most of them have one 500mb partition… i guess that’s that 729mb partition in my case or what?

    Any ideas what i have to do without losing everything?
  • Rustys
    PCHF Member
    • Jul 2016
    • 7862

    #2
    Do you have the install media for Windows 8.1?

    Which can be gotten from here
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...ad/windows8ISO

    Can you access the system by getting it to boot into safe mode?


    Have you attempter a repair install of Windows 8.1?

    Is there any data on the drive (picture, documents)?
    You can use a Live Linux to copy that info to an external drive.

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    • Rustys
      PCHF Member
      • Jul 2016
      • 7862

      #3
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