Win11 Pro 64bit Error Message 0xc000000e at BOOT on HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR

[emile1611-8]

Hello Everyone,

This is a Boot failure after duplicating Hard disks for backup. NVMe M.2 500GB SSD is where the Win11 OS is, with GPT the GUID Partition Table being used instead of MBR. For some reason, when I restarted the machine, an error 0xc000000e prompted me, which took me into the Setup, with all sorts of things that I have no idea what to do with in there. I tried one after another of those suggested things on the list, but in the end I gave up. Your help is very much appreciated, please. Many thanks in advance for your expertise. 

[emile1611-8]

I am sorry to bother you again. It seems the problem is much more complicated than I previously thought. For this I have tried another attempt, booting from the installation DVD for Win11, but failed again. I shall describe below here what I have done, hoping someone may recognize the error I made and take it from the point where I might have missed it. It goes like:

I switch the machine ON, the HP logo appears with words like “Protected by HP Sure Start” appear. At the bottom of the screen, it says “Preparing Automatic Repair”. Then it shows the error message as in the picture images above. I press F8, it goes to Startup Settings. As I said before, I tried few of these Fn like F1, F8, F4, F9 etc... but none of them helped me. Now, I went into the BIOS by pressing F10 (for this machine). Once I was there, I was in the Setup menu/ Advanced Tab/ Boot options.

I unchecked the four checkboxes but left only “CD-ROM Boot” checked to see if it can start the installation DVD where the ISO for Win11 is. Then I exit while saving the changes. It took me to “Startup Menu” first. I clicked F9 for Boot Menu, then chose “UEFI- hp HLDS DVDRW GUD1N” (where the installation DVD is). This follows by “Press any key to boot from CD DVD...”The DVD runs to start the installation till I found the “Repair your computer”. The WinRE appears, “Choose an option”/ Troubleshoot/ Command Prompt.  From there, it goes as follows:

X:\Sources>

I typed bootrec /rebuildbcd  (X:\Sources>bootrec /rebuildbcd)

Scanning all disks for Windows installations

Please wait, since this may take a while...

Successfully scanned Windows installations.

Total identified Windows installations : 2

[1] C:\Windows

Add installation to boot list? Yes (Y)/ No (N)/ All (A) :  (to which I typed Y and pressed Enter-key)

[2] C:\Windows.old

Add installation to boot list? Yes (Y)/ No (N)/ All (A) :  (to which I typed Y and pressed Enter-key)

The specified path not found

X:\Sources>

No success. The system still looping.

I need your help, please.

Many thanks to you.

[emile1611-8 · Accepted solution]

Hello everyone,

It has been a long struggle for me, and finally I got it right. In fact, I am just reporting for the sake of any other people who may face the same problem in the future. The shortcut to the solution is this: The MBR was corrupted thus needed to be fixed. I would not take credit for having solved it, but the AOMEI helped me. It took just less than one minute. They gave me an ISO file to repair the MBR, the AOMEI Boot Repair tool, which I burned in a CD (270MB), and used it - DONE. The file name is AOMEI_BootRepair_PE_x64.

Thank you very much again for the more than 500 people who read my dilemma. I was spared from overwriting my System for a clean install. I am sure for those who know the command prompts, there is no need for this ISO repair tool since it is just a matter of repairing the MBR, but unfortunately I have little knowledge of it. Credit to AOMEI.

Best regards to everyone.