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
You really saved me! After I finished your commands, the system still didn't restart. But then from boot I choose the main SATA drive and it started successfully!
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!
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!!!
Thank goodness. Every time I break my computer I have to go to UA-cam. 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!!!!!!!!!
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 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.
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!
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
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!
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 UA-cam 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.
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. 🤝
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!
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.
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 :)
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
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.
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 UA-cam 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.
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.
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
I had this issue with booting Win11 today and I was amazed how many misleading videos were out there on UA-cam that somehow never fixed it at all. Your tutorial helped me eventually. Thanks!
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!
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!! 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!
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!
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
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
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 !
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 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.
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👍
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)
Sixty-five & still learning. Computing was meant to be easy., guess it's Microsoft that makes it difficult. Thank you for your technical input, my system works now..
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...
@@MrEddieG93 I ended up taking mine to a computer technician. He managed to fix it. None of these UA-cam videos worked for me. I watched and followed a whole lot of 'em, but none of 'em worked.
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.
@@Zspeakenglish 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 🌹
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!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ This video saved my life. I got some grub errors and couldn't start my windows. After 2 days of research, no luck. Finally I found this video and worked perfectly. Thanks you so much.. After 5 years it's still working.. Liked and subscribed already.
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?
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
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.
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.
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 sir for your knowledge, I only needed the first part of your video to reassign my drive letters as Windows went and forgotten somehow thanks again keep up the great work.
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.
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.
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. ;)
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!
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!
My dude... I can diagnose and rebuild small engines, some light carb tuning, I can sharpen a chainsaw freehand to better than factory condition; I can do a lot of other things, but I can not fathom computers. You just got mine fixed by ME in less than 7:30. Thanks so much. Not a PC guy, but you get a like and subscribe regaress.
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
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
You really saved me!
After I finished your commands, the system still didn't restart. But then from boot I choose the main SATA drive and it started successfully!
Many, MANY thanks for this video. The amount of headache and time you’ve saved me is huge. Thanks again
how
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 UA-cam video? Should be you to know what to do. No words.
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
Thank goodness. Every time I break my computer I have to go to UA-cam. 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!!!!!!!!!
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 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.
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
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
solution plz
huh
Thanks a mill! This solved my problem
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!
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 UA-cam 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.
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. 🤝
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?
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😅
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 !!!
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?
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.
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?
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
4 years later and this is still the best resource to fix this issue. Thank you, sir!
Thank you! This was awesome. The most thorough video on boot recovery I’ve seen yet. It really helped
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
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!
Finally, a competent youtube tutorial and explanation. I recommend and thank you sir!
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 UA-cam 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.
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.
We almost lost it, thanks for this one.
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
I had this issue with booting Win11 today and I was amazed how many misleading videos were out there on UA-cam that somehow never fixed it at all. Your tutorial helped me eventually. Thanks!
Very big help -- windows restored, you are the man!
No way, I somehow managed to revive my old laptop simply by reassigning the C drive. Thanks!
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!
We found the best human being on earth according to my cousin 🙄💜🔥
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!! 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!
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 don’t normally write comments but I wanted to thank you for this video! Appreciate it!
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!
Second time having this issue, second time coming here, and the second time fixing it successfully.
This guy is amazing.
Did your folders and data deleted? After doing this?
@namozboikholboev9087 no, all of my files were still intact when I rebooted.
U ARE A LEGEND. I AM DEFINITELY SUBBING. I LITERALLY WATCHED 100 VIDS AND THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT FIXED. I LOVE YOU
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
I got a “failure when attempting to copy boot files.” Prompt 5:17
Same
Same
Same
No answer?
After about 5 hours of research, I finally came across this video and managed to fix my computer. Thank you.
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
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?
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
thanks this is nice info, i sometimes i need, to help friends out many many thank you chris !!!
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 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.
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👍
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!
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)
Sixty-five & still learning. Computing was meant to be easy., guess it's Microsoft that makes it difficult. Thank you for your technical input, my system works now..
I give you 20 star because just following this saved me from losing my Data. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
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
I am officially switching to Linux
Frfr
Lmfaoooooooo
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😢😔
I never make comments on videos but this IS crazy helpful. The only tutorial to actually fix a problem. You are a legend man.
I was up for 12hours trying to fix this issue and here comes this vid and problem solved thank you
"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 UA-cam 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.
It just bring me back to Automatic repair 😥
Same
Same
same here, did you fix it?
@@alfredolx1 no😭
Same😪
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
@@Zspeakenglish actually the problem my bf had was that his rtx2080 ti was broken so he got sent a new one and then it worked..
@@Zspeakenglish 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 🌹
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!
Thank you soo much, i was getting the error "reboot and select proper boot device", followed every step and now my windows is back
I couldn't find System Reserved in Diskpart
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 😢
what i did is i did a command, i think it was show all disk, and it told me all of them including disk 0, i then typed select disk 0 and it worked
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ This video saved my life. I got some grub errors and couldn't start my windows. After 2 days of research, no luck. Finally I found this video and worked perfectly. Thanks you so much.. After 5 years it's still working.. Liked and subscribed already.
Thank you so so so much man....I was searching from 2 days and finally got my windows back without reinstallation from your help
*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.
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.
Oh man, you saved my PC, THANKS!
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
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
Thanks man
I was trying to recover windows for 5 days 😭
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
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
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 sir for your knowledge, I only needed the first part of your video to reassign my drive letters as Windows went and forgotten somehow thanks again keep up the great work.
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
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
You save my time, I fixed "reboot and select proper boot device error". Thanks!
This video earned me a job at interview panel
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
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
chris titus you’re the goat if it wasn’t for you i would’ve had to reinstall windows, 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!
Thank bro, I starting think I would have to completely reinstall windows
That’s what I’ve in mind now
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!
BRO YOU JUST SAVE MY LIFE! THANK YOU FROM MY HEART! Greetings from Croatia (Europe)!
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.
My dude... I can diagnose and rebuild small engines, some light carb tuning, I can sharpen a chainsaw freehand to better than factory condition; I can do a lot of other things, but I can not fathom computers. You just got mine fixed by ME in less than 7:30. Thanks so much. Not a PC guy, but you get a like and subscribe regaress.
I am forever subscribed you saved my life. I spent HOURS sorting this out and your video was the one that fixed my issue. Xoxo