Windows 8.1 Boot Failure. Really need some urgent help. - General

Hi Facepunch. Something in my computer fucked up and I've been searching for the past two hours trying to figure it out with no avail cause my problem gets worse and worse. It started with me installing Avast due to the Puush malware. I uninstalled it afterwards and restarted my computer. It would boot into automatic repair which would never happen before. I tried all the options: from restarting, refreshing (couldn't refresh due to nothing being changed), repairing the boot files and whatnot. Nothing worked. it would be in a continuous automatic repair loop. Always booting up in it, and I can't even boot into safe mode. I tried searching for the problems and now I'm currently in the command prompt trying to repair it. I tried bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /f UEFI (z is assigned to C:\Windows volume) and it says "Failure when attempting to copy boot files." I have tried searching Google but my problem just gets worse (Automatic Repair loop > 0xc0000f error (or something along those lines) > bootrec error). Please be my savior Facepunch so I can get back to my essay.

Tried any of the steps found here? [url]http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/how-to-fix-the-automatic-repair-loop-in-windows-81/bfc92bc7-031f-45d4-b623-bcb4847d32fd[/url]

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47421984]Tried any of the steps found here? [url]http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/how-to-fix-the-automatic-repair-loop-in-windows-81/bfc92bc7-031f-45d4-b623-bcb4847d32fd[/url][/QUOTE] Yes. When I type bcdedit it says "The boot configuration data store could no be opened. The requested system device cannot be found." I'm getting pretty much what this guy is getting [url]http://superuser.com/questions/302603/problem-recreating-bcd-on-windows-7-64bit-the-requested-system-device-cannot-b[/url]

Try the other possible solutions, those don't involve the use of bcdedit. Some require you to have the Win8 DVD or other recovery media however. If you don't have them, but you happen to have a spare PC laying around, you can make a recovery DVD/USB stick here: [url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media[/url] Personally, I'd try #4 next: try to escape into BIOS.

You're prolly gonna have to do a complete format honestly. If you got a flash drive or spare HDD i would install it on that and set that up as the primary boot disk then try to recover whatever you can off your current hdd that is having the issues with the OS.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47422010]Try the other possible solutions, those don't involve the use of bcdedit. Some require you to have the Win8 DVD or other recovery media however. If you don't have them, but you happen to have a spare PC laying around, you can make a recovery DVD/USB stick here: [url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media[/url][/QUOTE] I'm currently in the Win8 DVD because if I don't boot in the DVD, Windows Boot Manager says that Windows failed to start. File \Boot\BCD with the status: 0xc000000f.

Try the chkdsk command as described in #3.

[QUOTE=MR-X;47422013]You're prolly gonna have to do a complete format honestly. If you got a flash drive or spare HDD i would install it on that and set that up as the primary boot disk then try to recover whatever you can off your current hdd that is having the issues with the OS.[/QUOTE] I split my hard drive 3 times: 1 being the OS, 2 being my recordings and games, and 3 being my Movies and Music. Is there a way so I can just reinstall the OS into my first partition so I wouldn't lose my others? [editline]29th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47422029]Try the chkdsk command as described in #3.[/QUOTE] Chkdsk showed that there were problems, but when I run chkdsk /f it says "Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.

[QUOTE=Niven;47422035]Chkdsk showed that there were problems, but when I run chkdsk /f it says "Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.[/QUOTE] Try adding /r and /x in too.

Just tried chkdsk C: /f /r /x and it's doing something now. Holy shit. [editline]29th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47422043]Try adding /r and /x in too.[/QUOTE] Yep just did. Will post results afterwards. [editline]29th March 2015[/editline] It's gonna take a while (ETA says 1 hour and 30 minutes for stage 4). What do I do after it?

After it, carry out the remainder of the steps in #3: type "exit" without the quotes, then reboot.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47422065]After it, carry out the remainder of the steps in #3: type "exit" without the quotes, then reboot.[/QUOTE] Okay, thank you so much. I added you on Steam in case something else goes haywire and after rebooting doesn't work.

[QUOTE=Niven;47422066]Okay, thank you so much. I added you on Steam in case something else goes haywire and after rebooting doesn't work.[/QUOTE] Oh, okay. Thanks for reminding me to open up Steam, since on my Win10 partition, it's not set to autoboot...

I don't recall if it works or not; see if you can run [url]https://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility[/url] from the advanced repair options > command prompt Post your \Windows\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt file (ideally just any section starting "Root Cause Found:")