Windows Boot Selection
Jun 11, 2009
I have a strange issue haunting me. On a dual boot PC (Windows 7 x86 and x64 the OS selection (Windows Boot Manager) will not allow me to select with the arrow keys. Also the enter key will not allow bypassing the timer. I recently reinstalled both OS but it never worked previously when I had Windows 7 x86 and XP x64 on a dual boot.
During the install, during the several restarts that occur when you are doing an install it will work and I could select but now I cant. The keyboard is a USB keyboard with wireless mouse.
Any ideas?
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Nov 27, 2009
I Installed Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.1 yesterday on my Windows 7 and got this problem when it boots up I get the option to choose OS. Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your langugae settings, and then click next
3. Click "repair your computer."
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
Then I tried to run the Windows 7 installation disk, I go to the cmd prompt and run the
DISKPART
diskpart
list disk
select Disk X (X=disk where I installed all the OS, should be Disk 0)
list partition
select Partition X (X=partition containing OSX)
Virtual Disk Service error:
The pack is not online
and then i run the Bootrec /ScanOS, it came with 0 identified Windows Installations, this is why I come into the cmd prompt as I could not select the installed OS.
I've tried that from bootable cd to repair the install but the partition of windows7 is not recognized still.
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Apr 5, 2012
I have a pc that has been running windows 7 pro fine for a couple of years. Today it wont boot stopping with the message: "Windows failed to start.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 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.
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
This machine has only one dvd drive and one hdd. I have checked the boot list in the bios settings and the cd drive is first then the hdd second. If I insert the windows 7 cd and press any key to boot from cd when prompted I still end up at the "windows failed to start " screen. At this point I have the option to select "Launch startup repair" or "start windows normally" but I cant select them, the machine just counts down and continues to try to launch startup repair and fails with the 0xc000000e error.
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Jan 8, 2011
I am not able to run recovery on by laptop. When I try to run recovery from hard drive or even booting system from DVD ROM using recovery discs I get the following error:
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
My system is HP pavilion dv6 2150us. My hard drive is dynamic (someone told me that this error is because of dynamic hard drive). Will I have to convert dynamic hard drive to basic to run recovery? Or is there another way around?
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Sep 13, 2012
I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, and SSD main and 2 HDs SATA. One day, blue screen BSOD appeared and Pc is restarted. Then appears the following error: Window failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
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Jan 6, 2009
I'm using the Windows 7 - 7000 build too.
Well, I have some questions... first, regarding the boot screen when I turn on the computer. I've installed Windows XP SP2 this way: Deleted all the partitions on my hard drive, then did two partitions from the installation program of the CD, then I installed Windows XP in one of the partitions, then I installed Windows 7 in the other partition.
So, I have two SO's running, but, when I turn on the PC only stars with Windows 7. There is no OS selection screen at the very beggining. What could be the problem?
Second, and regarding with graphics. I'm running Win 7 in a HP 530 Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM and this: "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, up to 224-MB shared system memory". When I turn on the slideshow as a Desktop Background, sometimes I see weird lines and the transition is not as smooth. Also, I've installed Warcraft III Frozen Throne and when I play, I see some dark flashes and lines.
This happens because of the "beta" not handling well the GMA 950?? I'm using the drivers that came on with the Windows 7, however, I think I've updated them via Windows Update since it seems that HP and Intel are friends with Bill Gates.
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Jan 23, 2012
My PC had a single hard drive with 300Gig. (I will refer to it as original HD64) Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed. Worked fine for a year or two. Eventually started crashing randomly, attempted lots of fixes but was reliably informed that it could be my hard drive. I decided I would be best with a new HDD and a fresh install. Bought a new hard drive. 250Gig (Will refer to it as new HD32). Unplugged originalHD64 from sata cable and power. Plugged in newHD32 into sata cable.
Inserted bootable USB flash drive with windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit on it. Went through full install including partition creation etc. Install crashed part way through but I think the dog knocked the power lead. Restarted install. Everything seemed to install fine. Plugged in original HD64 into second sata slot. Changed boot priority to New HD32. Booted fine.
Clicked on >Computer and found new HD32 as C: drive and Old HD64 as D: as I wanted it to be.
So far so good. But on next boot the CHKDSK thing ran. Then it booted ok. CHKDSK ran on next boot also. Then I managed too boot normally but realised there were a couple of things not working properly in the fresh install. Things like Windows Picture viewer would not open anything at all and a couple of other issues. And it was especially annoying that CHKDSK kept running. I asked for advice and was told that I should probably just format the new HD32 and resintall from fresh incase the install had somehow gone wrong.
So, I changed the boot order to Old HD64 and logged into my old windows OS which I had left installed in case anything went wrong. From there I navigated to disk management and formatted and repartitioned the NEW HD32 disk. Now I unplugged Old HD64. Plugged in bootable USB flash drive and tried to follow the exact same steps as I followed last time. But instead of going through the windows install I just get ... "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" (and some other text viewable in the following link).
Here is an example image of the screen I get... The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible error 0xc000000f on HP Notebooks - Tricks Guide
So I reboot.
Press F8 to select boot device.
Choose USB flash drive.
I have unplugged the New HD32 and plugged in the old HD64 and done the same thing just to test if its a HD issue but I get the same problem.
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Jul 30, 2010
I tried to bring my computer out of hibernation and was confronted with:Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your langugae settings, and then click next
3. Click "repair your computer."
Status: 0xc0000000e
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessibleRecently I shrank one of the partition on the data drive in order to enlarge the other partition on the data drive. The enlarged data drive contains the folders of some installed games but the system disk is separate and was not altered in this way. I'm pretty sure that I hibernated and recovered from hibernation at least once since that change was made.Could it be that the OCZ drive has developed a fault? Or would it then be unable to even display this message?When I attempt to repair the installation using the Windows 7 disc, the operating system isn't listed. I don't think that there are any drivers for me to load - I think it's supposed to be automatic (the driver must be a part of Windows own included set).
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Oct 14, 2010
right, i've noticed another thread with the similar problem, here, and apparently it's fixed, but as i'm running my system on a laptop, i'm wondering what i can do to recover my system without any data loss. error message's more or less the same, "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
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 disc.........etcetc
status: 0xc000000e
info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."
i'm running an msi cx420 that's 6 months old, windows 7 32 bit. this problem only surfaced after i defragged my laptop and updated MSE and restarted. to be clear, my laptop isn't of much importance but my data is what i'm worried about. edit: also, i've tried to burn the windows 7 system repair disc on a USB as follows, but with no luck. i'm running windows xp on this computer and if anyone could also help me on this i'd be much obliged.
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Aug 6, 2012
Boot > advanced options > maximum memory > i checked and changed it to 4GB
After restarting my pc, I reentered to maximum memory and it was 0. I restarted my pc again and it is not working anymore .
Status: 0xc000000e
The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
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Sep 14, 2012
I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, and an SSD as my main drive and 2 SATA HDDs.One day, I got a BSOD appeared and my PC restarted restarted. After that, the following error appeared: Window failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1.Insert ....
2. .... ... status: 0xc000000e info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible
Also I noticed that BIOS only detected one of HDDs, not SSD neither other HDD.Sometimes, Windows can be started, but it doesn't work very well.When trying to copy data from F: to an external USB, it copies for a short time and then Windows 7 becomes unresponsive. This also happens in safe mode.After several reboots, now Windows will not boot and I get the error "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible." And the BIOS only detects the SSD.
UPDATE: my disks:
HDDs
WDC WD10EARS-22Y5B1
Seagate ST31000528AS
SSD
FM-25S2S-120GBP2 - G.SKILL
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Apr 5, 2011
I was on my tour to Cyprus and last night I came back I saw my PC uptime was 22days.I asked my brother wht's going on , he told me if you'll shut down pc, i'll not get it stared. Due to some reasons I restarted my pc and now its giving me this error"the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible". I've 2 drives 500GB + 1000GB, windows is on 500GB drive which I check through BiOS & shows SATA Port 0 = (0.0GB), SATA Port 1 WDC WD10EARS-0 (1000.2GB).
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Jul 31, 2011
I'm having this error for a while now. this: 0xc0000225 Boot selection required device is inaccessible What happened before this is just a forced shut down because the computer is lagging. After that, this error in now showing up. I have a recovery disk but I can't manage to open it up, cause I dont know this stuffs
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how to enable dual boot os selection during system startup after installing xp in Windows 7
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Jan 10, 2012
after messing around in disk management i rebooted and got this message:0xc000000f -- The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. i think i might have messed up the primary partition. i have no recovery media..
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Jun 28, 2012
I went into bios and changed the boot sequence to boot from CD. The keyboard works fine when in bios but when it says press any key to boot from CD the keyboard doesn't seem to function. After that it takes me to this message.
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible
I can't log onto windows because the hdd been formatted already. Is there anyway to fix this issue and anyone know how am very grateful for your support.
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Jan 30, 2012
I've been getting a BSOD what seemed like once a week for the past 6 months on my laptop, which now won't even boot into windows. The first hdd was the first to go about a year ago as it is rarely even recognized anymore, so I just moved ship to the 2nd hdd which now seems to have followed suit. Before I go out and buy a new HDD a want to confirm that it is indeed the hdd and not memory, or just corrupt drivers or something simple to fix.What's wierd is that when I try to do the recovery disk option or even boot from the original win 7 cd to do a fresh install, I get no where because its so god awful slow now. I literally had to leave it sit to load into the repair disk option menu for a good 3 hours. I can't even start a fresh install of win 7 because of how slow everything is.I also can't press F8 to get into the boot selection menu to select safe mode, or last known good config etc...I updated the bios which made no difference. I opened up the laptop and disconnected and reconnected the one hdd that was easiest to get to(the other is a bitch) and nothing. I also did a scandisk on the only hdd that gets recognized and in the options it said it had a partition size of 0, but had 2 million sectors to scan which it found 0 bad sectors in.Also when it boots up now its not even half as loud as it used to be yet all the fans seem to be spinning.Why would a couple of dead hdds prevent me from booting from a disk or usb to try a fresh install?
Here are the specs.17"WUXGA/GT,w/MULTI DRIVE VISTA ULTIMATE 64 bit WINDOW 7 ULT UPGRADE COUPON Core i7 920 (2.66 GHz) 8M 6GB DDR3 1066 (3 DIMMS) nV GeForce Go GTX 280M w/1GB INTEL WI-FI LINK 5300AGN NP9280 BLUETOOTH CARD 2x 2.5" Seagate SATA 500GB (7200rpm) HDDs RAID-OFF RAID-OFF EXT. USB ATSC HDTV TUNER W/REMOTE EXPRESS CARD SLOT MCE REMOTE NP9262 SMART LI-ION BATTERY
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Jan 11, 2012
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May 26, 2012
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