Troubleshooting and Fixing Windows 8's Boot Configuration

I tried everything, including the above, to no avail.

what finally ended up working for me was resetting the bios to factory defaults, and then re-ran system recovery and windows booted up right away
 
I just want to let u know u r my hero...! I tried everything to fix my corrupt boot problem, got to your site and worked my way down to the last ditch effort section. I was resigned to yet another couple hundred bucks to have it fixed by a professional and lo and behold the very last commands at the command prompt worked...! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU...!



Hi
I am trying to fix windows 8 boot issues fixing mbr or bcd
I did everything you said but the last part I can not figure out how to do , please help!
In the instructions He said :
One last thing to try (though in theory, it's the repeating what we’ve done before) browse to the folder X:SourcesRecovery and then enter “StartRep.exe” which executes another automated startup repair utility.
 
After restoring a full disk image (MBR, System Reserved partition, and C partition) with Paragon Backup & Recovery 2013 (Free), the Widows 8.1 operating system would not boot. I fixed it by using a previously created Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive and the four commands you suggested. Is there an explanation as to why a full disk restore, including the MBR, will not boot without doing this repair?
Thank you
 
First of all ,You need to run your PC in safe mode by f8. If your PC is working in safe mode then you need not to worry otherwise you need to boot your PC by F9 or F10 or f11 or F12 or Delete (As per your system configuration).
 
So that worked for me - kind of. Though with some side effect.

I have a dual boot system with Win7 and Win 8.1. Each system on each their drive. I then got a new SSD drive where I cloned Win 8.1 on to using True Image. However, when I swapped out the old HD with the new I got an error message instead of the Win8 OS selector boot screen: "A required device isn't connected of can't be accessed. Error code: 0xc000000e". If I tried again it said: "The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. File \Windows\system32\winload.exe"

Automatic start-up repair with a recovery disk did not work.
I could connect the old drive back and it'd work, but the cloned SSD disk would not let me boot Windows.

I eventually tried the four steps in this article to recover the MBR. And it booted! Hurrah! But... I now have the Win7 OS selector screen instead of the Win8 screen. Not that it doesn't matter too much, but I'm puzzled to why. And I did like the Win8 boot screen.

When I did the fixmbr it did look like it detected only one Windows drive. Though I'm not sure which one. I suspect that it detected only the Win7 drive and it somehow detects my Win8.1.

Another observation I see is that on my Win7 drive there is a small 100MB partition named "System Reserved" which contain the partition marked as System and Active. My Win8.1 drive is also marked as active now - it wasn't with the old drive.
Isn't there supposed to be only one active partition? And that should be the System partition? Anyone have any idea what ahppneed to the Win8 boot loader and if its possible to restore it?
 
I downloaded all the possible tools like MSDart for 8.1 etc etc... but this info was also there in various sites... maybe overload of info.. not clean concise steps...after hrs of frustration.. looking at the screenshots on this page and using the dos commands and entering them. in the sequence you mentioned . I got my baby back. thanks...
 
The very last step (start rep) at command prompt did the trick. Other sites gave help that went only as far as the bootrec commands. The additional steps using bcdedit were the magic bullets to get rid of the grub prompt. Great, great info and thank you so much for your most valuable help.
 
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