I recently had some issues with my computer after a lovely partition edit fail. Windows is completely inaccessable. I am able to boot to the Norton Ghost system recovery disc and recover my C drive. When I recover my C: drive using the ghost image I made, It will start the Windows 7 loading animation and then give the message
Autocheck not found - bypassing autochk.exe
Followed by a bsod about session manager initialization failing and the system process terminating with code 0xc00003a
Do I need to do a clean install or is there a possible fix to this?
I attempted to use the windows install disc recovery option. It fixed something with the bootup process but that did not change anything.
I did not restore the system reserved paritition....or make an image of it....I only did the C drive. Is that my problem?
Also, in order to use my computer for now, I put a new install of Windows 7 on a different partition than the recovered image. Figured I would give that info in case it mattered
I recently had some issues with my computer after a lovely partition edit fail. Windows is completely inaccessable. I am able to boot to the Norton Ghost system recovery disc and recover my C drive. When I recover my C: drive using the ghost image I made, It will start the Windows 7 loading animation and then give the message
Autocheck not found - bypassing autochk.exe
Followed by a bsod about session manager initialization failing and the system process terminating with code 0xc00003a
Do I need to do a clean install or is there a possible fix to this?
I deleted a dell recovery partition (it would recover me to vista) then extended my windows partition over it. While extending the windows partition someone decided they wanted to use the computer and cancelled it. Thats where the problem came up. I had created an image the night before.
I dont care much about the SRP right now. I just want to get my Windows backup up and running. Then I might attempt to remove that.
I was using a GParted Llive CD to edit partitions.
Right now there is a 200 GB partition where I attempted to restore my image backup of windows and a 85 GB partition where I installed a clean copy of Windows 7 since I can not boot to the backup.
I wanted it to just be a 285 GB partition where I would load the backup but that didnt work as it gave me the BSoD I described above.
I have attempted to repair windows through the install disc but that will not work. I am beginning to wonder if this has anything to do with deleting the Dell Restore Partition since that is the only thing that would have been changed. Or maybe ghost failed at making the image.
OK. The partition was damaged. When you restored Win7 into the damaged partition it remained damaged. You need to delete the partition and restore Win7 into unallocated space.
What I'd do is use the Ghost CD to backup your new Win7 OS. Then with your GParted CD, delete all partitions on the HD. Boot from the Ghost CD and restore your original Win7 image. When you try to boot the restored Win7 you will get a message about BootMgr is missing. Use this to fix it. Just as far as the end of the "Solution" section.
Well after deleting all of my partitions and then restoring my backup image I still have the same problem.
Any other possible ideas of what to do?
edit: I also figured I would post this too. When booting after a BSoD it gives the option to launch startup repair. It then gives a status of 0xc0000225 and says the boot selection failed because required device is inaccessible.
Since you didn't backup the SRP, you are missing an important part. I wonder what would happen if you started from scratch with a Windows 7 install then restore your image to the Windows 7 partition (leaving the SRP alone). You may still have to run the startup repair, but I think it is worth a try.
The drive is set as bootable in GParted. Also the windows 7 loading animation does show. It just then goes to a black screen saying Autochk not found - bypassing autocheck
Then flashes to a BSoD that says
"stop:c000021a {fatal system error} the session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc00003a {0x00000000,0x00000000} The system is shut down"
On first boot after the restore, did you see a BootMgr is Missing error?
Did the image Verify OK?
When you restored did you choose something like this?
Verify recovery point before restore Resize drive after recover (unallocated space only) Partition type : Primary Check for file system errors after recovery Set drive active (for booting OS)
Did you resize the partition to fill the unallocated space or not? Just interested.
Can you try this..
Download BootIt NG. There is a one month trial usage. Unzip the file and make a boot CD.
double click makedisk.exe, next dot in I accept the agreement, next dot in Mouse Support Enabled, next dot in VESA Video, next dot in Partition Work (Don't put a dot in Normal), next don't choose any Default Device Options, next leave Registration strings blank, next select your CD burner drive letter (you can use a CD-RW or a CD-R disc) Finish
Boot from the CD....
the BootIt NG CD boots to the Work with Partitions window Using the radio buttons on the left side of the Work with Partitions window, select your HD Do you see * Errors Exist * at the top of the window and an E next your partition?
Select your OS partition and click Properties. What is in the File System field?
Since I didn't backup the actual "Boot" folder, I added an incorrect one from another installation.
Trying to boot windows gave me the same error as above.
Then I booted back to my PE disk and deleted the boot folder and bootmgr and then booted to my windows 7 disk and did a repair (booting twice to the repair option).
The repair did indeed add the missing folder and bootmgr and the system then booted fine all the way to windows.
I found something interesting but not very helpful.
I realized I didn't know where the animated logo was in windows 7. With XP it is in the file ntoskrnl.exe and thats loaded very early in the boot.
Vista it's inside winload.exe.mui, but in windows 7 it's hidden inside a disguised .wim file inside the system32\bootres.dll file. Very odd bitmap file that has hundreds of images in slightly different stages in a long strip, just like looking at a strip of movie film with a whole bunch of frames each changed slightly from the previous one.
Like I said, not very helpful but somehow your boot is getting along far enough to load files from the system folder.