PC completely bricked?

JonRGV250

JonRGV250

JonRGV250

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I turned on my PC this morning only to be greeted with no option to use my passcode, and after that, whenever I reboot the PC it says your device ran into a problem and it needs to restart, and then restarts but doesn’t post.
Or..
It goes into a recovery page with the error 0xc0000225 which gives the options of..
Enter to try again (which restarts the PC as above)
F1 to enter recovery environment (which just returns to the same page)
F8 for start up settings which gives 9 options, all of which take me to your device ran into a problem etc
Esc for EUFI which takes me to BIOS
I’ve tried downloading win 10 installation onto a thumb drive via my MacBook, but that won’t work as it throws error 1309 as the file is over 4GB.
If I mash F11 it gives the option to select boot drive (goes to your device ran into a problem and it needs to restart and restarts and doesn’t post) or startup settings which goes to the 9 options.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
You'll need to reformat your flash drive to use an ntfs filesystem, it's probably set to fat32 which iirc caps at 4Gb filesizes.

Googling your error code says windows cannot find system files for booting. So it'll defo need repairing. If you get the OS on the flash drive and boot from that, there's normally a few repair options for you to try.
 
Thanks, but my Mac only gives the options of MS-DOS FAT 32, ExFAT or 2 Mac OS options and nothing for NTFS.
Edit
Downloaded NTFS for Mac and will try now.
 
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I formatted the flash drive in NTFS and still nothing.
I've set the drive to Boot in bios..

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and if I try to boot from here...

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nothing happens, but if I boot from the nvme that the OS is on, it just gives the 0xc0000225 error.
I've ordered a new flash drive to try, and other than that, what else can I do?
New mobo? Throw the whole thing in the trash and start again?
 
Thanks, I tried all 3 of those..
UNetbootin won't run and isn't compatible with Big Sur, UUByte wants $30 to use, but I had a little success with Etcher, in that I got to the start-up repair windows page, but it couldn't repair my PC, then it restarted and I'm back to square one with the same error codes.
I can try to build a bootable USB on a win PC at work, but have no idea how to, or I can just buy a USB or whatever from eBay that'll do the job?
Thanks for the advice so far though :)
 
Just google "windows 10 media creation tool" and download the program. That will download the latest version of Windows 10 and write it on the USB stick. It makes the USB drive bootable so no need to download any other tools to get the job done.
Here is also a guide https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-installer-usb-drive-mac for doing it on a Mac if you don't have access to a Windows machine.
 
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Hurrah, finally sorted it!
Had to download Windows onto my MacBook, and then create the bootable USB, and also remove the nvme that had the OS on it as it was for some reason screwing things up.
The only problem I have now is that I want to put the nvme back in and wipe it, but am worried that it'll cause all sorts of problems again.
 
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