Boot error, boot error

marcg868 · 5 Aug 2018 at 17:06

Getting annoyed with it now. Done three clean installs, load everything on, loaded all the Asus drivers for my motherboard minus vga, drivers for my gfx card etc.
Done the 1803 windows update.
Everything works well and is stable till I restart and it won't boot, tried various command prompt things off YouTube. And nothing.
Tried repair this PC with the windows USB stick in and it can't find a solution.

I've done no hardware changes, just a clean install.

Error codes are 0xc000221
One was a 0xc00225 some file missing.
Any solutions before I sledge hammer it and buy a Xbox 1x

postmanfw · 5 Aug 2018 at 18:52

Are you sure that it is booting from the right hard drive?

Check in bios and remove all other bootable devices to be sure.

Sparx · 5 Aug 2018 at 20:18

As above, do you have more than drive installed? Check the BIOS isn't trying to boot your non-OS drive...

It's usually best to install the OS with all other drives disconnected anyway, to avoid boot manager confusion.

marcg868 · 5 Aug 2018 at 20:56

Yeah w10 on ssd. I deleted all the partitions and formatted the hdd didn't disconnect it though. Can I format both from the w10 setup USB?

postmanfw · 6 Aug 2018 at 07:45

Just disconnect it to be sure.

marcg868 · 6 Aug 2018 at 15:30

Disconnected it went into bios, changed it to windows boot manager in my ssd. Boot it first time. Plugged hdd in, booted again no problems. All seems happy.
Cheers for the help everyone