Windows 7 Failed To Start Up?
Oct 3, 2012
today my computer failed to boot up, I got a message stating that Windows 7 failed to start up. It was working perfectly fine the day before, I have no new installed software, applications, or hardware. So first I went through the "repair" process however it failed also and yielded no fix, I tried this activity several times to no avail. Then I began to test my hardware I removed one of my graphic cards and all but one stick of RAM and only connected one Hard drive. I went through the boot process with no motherboard errors, however I still got the same "failed to start up" warning. Running out of ideas and swapping hardware like a mad man, nothing seemed fix the problem.
After these failed attempts I decided to put the Windows 7 installation disk into the drive and see if I could run that and repair, or essentially put a fresh install onto my hard drive. Unfortunately for some reason when it prompts me to "hit any key to to boot from DVD" it doesn't record my keystroke and immediately brings me back to the original message of "failed to start up".So here I am running Ubuntu from a USB flash drive and all my hardware is reported accurately and is running like a top. Now, I can re-format the hard drive as NTFS through Ubuntu but I have a couple of questions: 1. my Original Windows 7 install has been on a 500 gb partition from a 1tb drive, I can format just the partition through Ubuntu but not sure if that will translate over when I attempt to reinstall windows.2. Why isn't my keyboard being able to press "any key" to boot into the windows install disc?
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Dec 28, 2011
Last night I was on my computer and then I shut it down. Today when I came home from work it keeps saying windows failed to start. I tried hitting f8 and loading to the last good configuration doesn't work, safe mode same thing, repairing nothing, so my last resort was my windows 7 cd. So I went into bios and made my configuration boot from cd/dvd popped it in and restarted, a black screen came up saying windows is loading files, then the windows 7 menu came up, picked my language, next, and first I tried repair my computer, I get the little circle meaning its loading for like 5 seconds them it does nothing, rebooted again but this time I chose, install and I've been on the setup is starting for like 20 min. And forgot to mention, when it boots seem like it does good then comes to the screen where it says windows failed and gives me two options repair our start normal, if I pick repair it just reboots and start normal takes me to like the pick your user screen but its just blank no users, so I can't even restore our access the computer.
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May 21, 2011
So ive been getting the black screen with movable cursor lately and have tried many a methods to remove it i tried checking in my event log for something, and this is waht it said "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:dtsoftbus01" So what does this mean and how can i fix this?
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Mar 7, 2012
Monday couldn't boot up PC, had to go to system recovery and restore to previous day.
Log files show below that 4 things failed to load. Tuesday couldn't boot up PC again.. tried to restart like 4-5 times.. Finally comes up and in the logs there's numerous things that failed to load. Running a sfc /scannow right now.
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May 8, 2012
I found corrupted system files, but it appears that the hard disk is fine. executed chkdsk and no bad sectors.Just looked into this on event viewer-The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:xsoaynmfmfxpefxbozedltnzvijcvI am running Acer Aspire X3950-U3022 with Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition.
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Oct 3, 2012
I'm not sure where to even begin to fix these problems. Some online searches suggested doing a system repair but I want to get some more feedback here before proceeding.Here is the message from the event log:The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
AFD
cmdGuard
cmdHlp
CSC
DfsC
discache
ElbyCDIO
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I realized some of these are not Windows 7 related but most are. While the computer "works", I do experience frequent reboots and freezes. Perhaps some of these driver loading failures are part of the cause of my issues.
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Aug 2, 2011
A few days ago, I started having trouble with Dell Latitued D800, Windows 7. First, Windows would not boot up. I was able to boot windows using the F12 option. When Windows loaded, the screen display had shrunk and was centered with a black perimeter. I contacted the guy that sold me the computer and he suggested that I check the boot sequence for the boot issue. That worked fine. To resolve the resolution issue, I was advised to select the "last known good configuration" from the F8 options. After I did that, the Windows Error Recovery Screen. A Recent Hardware Or Software Change May Be The Cause. I attempt to start windows normally.
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Dec 15, 2011
When I last shut down my HP Mini 110 netbook it began installing updates, which is normal now and again.When I switched it on the next day it comes up with a black screen saying Windows Boot Manager:Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause... It goes on to tell me to insert my windows installation disc but netbooks dont have diskdrives
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Jun 9, 2012
When I last shut down my HP Mini 110 netbook it began installing updates, which is normal now and again.When I switched it on the next day it comes up with a black screen saying Windows Boot Manager:Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause... It goes on to tell me to insert my windows installation disc but netbooks dont have diskdrives!Also says The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
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Sep 14, 2012
I have had problems booting up my Toshiba laptop. (Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit) When i would start my computer, Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:1. Insert you Windows installation disc and restart your computer.2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next.3. Click "Repair your computer." If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.File: BootBCD Status: 0xc000000e Info: An error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data. tried to solve the problem using repaire methods such as :At the DOS prompt type the following three commands:bootrec.exe /fixmbrbootrec.exe /fixboot (may return an 'Eliment not found' message)bootrec.exe /RebuildBcdI also deleted the BCD parition or it's related to it which is 100Mb in size ,
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Sep 4, 2012
I left my 160 GB hard disc unused for 1 month.It was installed with Windows 7 ultimate.But now it says unable to start windows. I have another 1 TB hd. i can boot from this and my 160 GB still works as a memory storage. Its only problem is that it is unable to boot.I think if i install a new copy of window it will work.but i need to know why it was happened when 160 GB hard disc was not in used for a long time and any other way to recover it.
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Nov 7, 2012
I'd had some problem with my laptop the last few days, what I believed to have happened is my laptop (Dell inspiron n5110) which is windows 7, was doing a configuration, but because of my bad connection, my internet dropped. It was stuck at 15% for 3 hours so I turned it off as it was about to run out of battery. It had some problems loading and starting up but they went after a day. but 1 day later I am booting up and I get a black screen.
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Aug 1, 2012
I have a serious issue, this all started when i tried to update my bios and had some how screw up my os. I tried startup repair failed system restore failed and safe mode failed also. What should i do now?
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Dec 9, 2011
A recent hardware or software change might be the cause to fix the problem: 1. Insert Windows installation disc and restart your computer, 2. Choose language settings/NEXT, 3. click repair your computer. If you do not have this disc, contact system admin or computer manufacturer. status OXCOOOOOOf the boot seletion failed "a required device is inaccessible
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Sep 3, 2012
I went to use the rest room. I come back and he had spilled his juice inside my machine. I lost video and the fan on my brand new 7770 was stuck on max rpm. I turned everything off, took out the gpu, cleaned it, let it dry. Let the rest of the computer dry. I reinstalled the GPU and turned on my machine. The fan was no longer stuck on max RPM, so I felt I dodged a bullet. However, windows failed to start. It continually fails to start. I tried an older GPU (9500 GT). The fan on it would, for some reason, not spin, but I saw the model come up when I started the PC. Windows wont start. Initially I believed my problem was limited to a shorted GPU and I don't mind buying another new one, but since I was unable to get my old GPU to work I'm worried something else has shorted.
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Oct 2, 2012
my laptop won't start up-it reads, "Windows failed to strt. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. I don'thave installation disc--if I did have it,m it's lost. I was terying to download a TV show from a website and i THINK I ruined my computer.
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Nov 19, 2012
I'm very new to PCs, I just built this rig back in July and I've just run into my first "problem". I was sitting here reading the paper when my PC randomly shut down. When it started back up, it brought me to a black DOS screen that said:"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer.2. Choose your language settings, and then click next.3. Click repair your computer.If you do not have this disk, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.Status: Status:0x000000e Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible"So I did what it suggested and inserted my Windows 7 disc and ran repair. Repair couldn't do anything. It told me to contact my system administrator or hardware manufacturer.
So I opened my chasis and removed unplugged both of my HDs (OCz 120GB SDD and WD 2TB HDD) and plugged them back in. I booted up again and removed the Windows 7 disc. Now I had a black screen telling me something like "Define your boot disc in BIOS or insert media". That isn't verbatim, I should have wrote it down. Sorry. But I went into my BIOS and went to the Boot tab. I only saw two boot methods! OCz as no. 1 and Atapi as no. 2! Shouldn't Western Digital be there too (at least as a choice?) well I didn't see it.I switched Atapi to no. 1 and OCz to no. 2 (as if that would do anything) and that black screen about setting your boot method came up and I think I figured out it was looking for my Windows 7 disc. So I put it in and entered a key. The install menu came up, I clicked repair and this time it wasn't finding my Windows 7 installation at all! I started to panic because I thought both of my HDs had been wiped. I ran repair again. Did nothing. I went back into BIOS and put Ocz back as no. 1 and disabled no. 2 (Atapi) and amazingly, my computer started up.
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Jan 12, 2013
I think that im facing the biggest pc prob of my life,Cz my windows has a major fail to start up , all safe modes and memory test do not work.I tried to repair it with the original cd of my windows, gess what, after loading windows files the screen goes black and nothing happens.all antivirus rescue bootable cds dont find a thing.
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Nov 12, 2012
My problem is that on occassions say every 2nd or 3rd start-up my laptop states that Windows failed to start-up properly, and gives me the option of repair or start windows normally So as the recovery states on screen is recommended this is usually the route i take but i have also run start as normal which gets me going. this is maybe not as serious as other posts I've read but it's becoming very frustrating, my laptop is a Lenovo G575 and i'm running windows 7 home premium.[code]
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Mar 9, 2011
have just started running a factory setting reboot got to 68% complete when we had a power cut, now when switched the lap top back on the screen says windows failed to start it says to install the windows disc and restart you comp put windows seven is installed in the laptop i when i brought the lap top it didnt have a disc the laptop is a emachine 627 running 64bit version the status 0xc000000f comes up.
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Oct 21, 2012
I am trying to fix my grandaughters acer asprire one d 255 it will not boot up the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is corrupt when i try to restore to factory settngs only gets to 16 % and gives a error code sysyem restore failed i/o device error f10 brings me to edit boot option so itry to type bootrec/fixboot. if i could type the right thing on the edit boot option might work but not sure what to type . Since there is no disc drive to insert disc how do i do a system restore with no disc drive
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Apr 10, 2011
My mother recently threw the task of trying to fix her laptop. It absolutely refuses to boot Windows 7, which is her primary and only OS on the system. Here's what I've got so far:
1-HDD Boot returns: "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert.... 2.... 3.... Status: 0xc000000f Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."
So, I went into my BIOS setup, and switched my Boot Device Order to CD/DVD drive first. I try booting from my Windows 7 Disk, but before it reaches the "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD" I get this message: "SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: HTS541....... WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to Continue."
So I boot from the CD/DVD and Windows loads the files....sometimes it stalls at a black screen afterwards. If not, then it tells me to choose an OS to boot from, and the only option is "Windows Setup [EMS Enabled]". I hit F8 to try an Advanced Option. I tried booting into Safe Mode with Command Prompt. It loads the driver files but then just hung on "disk.sys" and I had to force shut-down.
I'm assuming it's a HDD failure, though I've also heard that the drive may be fine and it may be a Motherboard/CPU problem. I've also heard of a problem with a windows update causing a problem after reboot. I can't check anything because I can't get windows to boot even with a CD, which makes me believe it's more than a HDD problem.
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Nov 22, 2012
I had my computer on and after a little wile it just turned off. After turning it back on it displays a "windows has failed to start a recent ..." And after clicking the repair option it is in the middle of loading it then it just turns of and I have the whole problem again. If I wait a day or so I can successfully repair it according to the popup but the. After a while it turns of again and the whole problem starts over again. The thing is I have not made any changes to my computer regarding software or windows 7 this just happened randomly.
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Jan 13, 2012
have beeen reading through this amazing forum for the past couple of days trying to get my Dell 1545 working again, i have tried to reinstall the OS from a disc that came with the lpatop, to no availi created a system restore disk from the machine i'm writing this on....still to no avail....i can get into the setup menu's but like many others i can't get any further, I don't know how to get into the BIOS menu (and to be honest wouldn't know what to do if I did
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Nov 20, 2012
I have a computer I am trying to refurbish. The old hard drive failed. I purchased a new hard drive. The CD/DVD player on the computer does not work, but I am able to boot from a USB. I was able to install Ubuntu from USB with no problems and now have a new copy of windows 7, 32 bit (computer is also 32 bit). I have tried to boot from the windows copy on the USB drive using many different tutorials as well as using the windows USB/DVD download tool. Each time I boot from the usb stick, a screen comes up that says windows failed to start. It says it may be due to a hardware problem. All other solutions to this involve using the recovery CDs or partition which I am not able to because the CD/DVD drive is broken, and I would like to not have to buy another one.
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Oct 31, 2012
How can I get into my laptop? I have a Windows failed to start error message. Asking me to inser my windows installation disc which didn't come with laptop
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Dec 30, 2012
My computer was having some problems every time I booted it up. Upon start up, I would receive an error message saying "windows failed to start, a recent hardware or software change might have caused the problem" and would give me some options to pick from like Safe Mode options and Start Normally. I would click "start windows normally" and my computer would boot up normally and run just fine. But every time I turn my computer off, I come back the next day with the same error message. I tried running the windows repair option but it would never find anything.
I decided I would just perform a clean install and just be done with it, but after doing that, I tried booting my computer to have the SAME error message. Same thing happens, I just click start normally and it works fine. It's just a total hassle to have to deal with this error message every time I try turning my computer on. Since I performed the clean install, I have very little things re installed to the computer like Java and what not. I wouldn't think it would be Java because I have had that the entire time I have owned the computer and only recently got the error messages.
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Oct 26, 2012
I have a acer aspire 7750G, windows 7 64-bit. It won't boot, it gives me this:
"Windows failed to start"
1. Insert your Windows installation disc.
2. Choose your language
3. Click "Repair your computer"
Status: 0xc000000f
I downloaded a recovery disk, it works, I can access cmd.
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Oct 20, 2012
been searching all over the internet on an alterative machine for a solution to a problem that occurred about an hour ago.To offer background on the machine:I upgraded it last summer with a 60gb Solid State HD to host the OS and a 700gb HD to host the bulk non-system essential files and appsI've had no anti-virus on it but occasionally run the Microsoft free Scan & Repair along with Iobits cleanup suiteThere's been this Win7.CH Trojan Horse that is occasionally detected for the past 6 months and even though I select to fix and repair, it always comes backThe machine will occasionally crash after exiting a high performance application like a videogameAfter installing the Planetside2 videogame Beta on the 700gb drive, my SS drive began to become strangely over-stuffed with files, and I could not narrow down where they originated. I uninstalled a few unessential Iobit programs and cleared my downloads and recycle bin, then something even stranger happened. The SS drive had 16gb free, while this entire time I've had it I've only managed to keep it about 2-4gb free, and the file clogging stopped from what I could tell.Anyway, a week or so later, after exiting the Planetside2 Beta application earlier the machine crashed (unsurprisingly) but upon startup, did not recover.
Startup repair unsurprisingly can't fix it, and I receive the following problem signature:The Windows Repair Problem Signature Problem Event Name: Startup Repair Offline Problem Signature 1: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 2: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 3: Unknown Problem Signature 4: 21200506 Problem Signature 5: AutoFailover Problem Signature 6: 17 Problem Signature 7: CorruptFile OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033decided to give the posted solution a go since it seemed so similar to mine.Unfortunately I did not realize that the tech tailored the solution specifically to the posters scan results, so when I tried to use the same solution, it didn't work.I'm quickly realizing that my problem is not the same...What I've tried so farI ran Chkdsk and it said F parameters aren't specified and it only took a millisecond to complete showing nothing wrong.The Startup Repair scan returns are all "0x0" errors.The afformentioned forum posts solution didn't work since it wasn't specified to my machine
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Jan 21, 2013
I have a Samsung netbook (n145) which has had a few issues starting up over the past couple months - it would prompt to run chkdsk before booting, I would let it run, and it would boot. However, yesterday I got the 'windows failed to start - a recent hardware change may be responsible' error message, and giving the option to try starting windows normally (which fails: there is a flash of BSOD and then screen goes black, and computer restarts, arriving at same 'failed to start' error). The other option is to run system repair, which also does not work: it takes ages to bring up a dialog box that searches for errors, but I have let this run for hours and it remains stuck. Tapping f4 to bring up samsung recovery also results in a stuck screen. Tapping f8 to boot to safe mode does not work either.
My main concern is having a working computer, and I can't really afford costly repairs or a new netbook. I got this one used about 1 1/2 years ago and it has no cd drive/OS boot disk (windows 7 starter came already installed). What should I do? Can I fix the hard drive, or should I replace? I am not at all technically skilled and have limited knowledge but an endless capacity to learn. I called samsung and they suggested I replace the hard drive to the tune of $100-$300 for parts alone, which is too expensive for a $100 netbook.
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Feb 10, 2012
Yesterday I came home from work to a black screen that said "Error Loading OS". Not sure how this happened, so I restarted it and it came right back to that. Spent a few minutes digging around and found out that my hard drive was not set in the BIOS as a boot drive (although no idea how that changed), so I switched it back and the computer booted fine.Today, I come home from work and again, I see the black screen that says "Error Loading OS". I restarted, went in the BIOS, and saw that of 4 hard drives in the system, only 1 (non boot) showed up. This is weird. I shut down for a few minutes, booted it back up to the BIOS, and my primary hard drive was listed again. Selected that, and Windows booted up fine.
Was using the computer for about an hour when everything just froze. The mouse still worked and moved, but nothing else at all was working. So I restarted again, and I got to a "Windows failed to start" / 0xc000000f error. Off to the BIOS again, where again, only 2 or 3 of my 4 hard drives were listed. I shut down, left it for a few minutes, rebooted back, and selected my primary drive again. Then I went ahead and created an image of my primary drive just in case.I have no idea wh thought it might be a hard drive failure, or it could be something messed up in my motherboard. I have a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD drive that is less than a year old, along with an ASRock Z68 PRO3 motherboard that was bought at the same time.
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