Fixing Windows 10 is pretty much a course on it's own!

Tried all the other videos that “pick up” where you said they do. This was the only one that worked for me. 4 years later and it’s still the most helpful.

My man, 4 years later, and you were an absolute life saver. I tried installing Manjaro Linux on one of my non Windows drives and for some reason it ruined the bootloader. This is the only guide that fixed the issue. Major props to you!

Thank goodness. Every time I break my computer I have to go to KZfaq. This is the very best video on this particular subject. And this is in English!!!! Straight forward and to the point. Just and excellent video!!!!!!!!!

I've been a Lead Systems Engineer for decades, and I still learn from you, Chris. I had no idea of a fix to be able back up the reg file this way, so now I do, thanks to you, good sir!

Chris always gets to the core of problems and explains properly without wasting words. Experts learn from him.

Many, MANY thanks for this video. The amount of headache and time you’ve saved me is huge. Thanks again

Chris man you are brilliant, I am not big on technical stuff but following your tutorial step by step I managed to fix my laptop which I had preety much given up on. I have liked and subscribed to your channel. Thank you so much! Respect man.

I´m a brazilian computer technician since 1976 when I started to work on IBM Brazil as a engineering, and knowing how to fix their big computers at that time, and I´m still learning from You Chris... You are "The Man"... Thanks a lot!!!

Thank you! This was awesome. The most thorough video on boot recovery I’ve seen yet. It really helped

Sir you are a Legend. I knew that this repair was a thing but had no idea how to perform it properly, and your excellent guide helped me in a pinch and within 10 minutes my system was up and running again.

Thank you Chris!! This video saved my computer. My 15-yr old found your page so we went step by step together through the command prompts. The laptop is resetting as I type this and before watching we were unable to get past Bitlocker. If we ever encounter another problem we will come straight to you!

Chris, I can't tell you how helpful this post was. Including the bcdboot cmd is ESSENTIAL to any good boot repair. I'd been struggling with a messed up vhdx, and this did the trick. Saved hours and hours of work. Many thanks!!

It really worked for me. I shorted my Windows while creating Ubuntu dualboot. I followed your video step by step, took many trials but it worked. The second part was specially very helpful.

Thanks for this video Chris, way better than most! This worked for stop code "inaccessible boot device" after a power failure, but in my case had to add one more step: boot into safe mode (4) once after this process, then it booted normally again.

I had this issue with booting Win11 today and I was amazed how many misleading videos were out there on KZfaq that somehow never fixed it at all. Your tutorial helped me eventually. Thanks!

Didn't exactly know what I was doing as I was following along but I listened, followed step by step, and my issue was fixed! After the reboot I got a "We Couldn't Complete Updates Undoing Changes" error and flipped out a little ngl, but it eventually logged me on. Thank you so much! You just saved me stress, time and money. 🤝

Thank you Chris! It worked! It's surprising how inconvenient it is to do this, but thanks to you, it was a lot less painful.

Thank you very much! It worked! I've watched many other videos and nothing worked. Spend a full day to resolve that issue. And finally it works now. Many thanks!

Dude … you’re a Gawd!!! I been struggling on this boot issue for the whole first day of 2022 … best wishes of the new year to you! Thanks SO much!! Following!

Holy moly, I must confess I wasn't expecting this to work at all! Thank you so much! Definitely subscribing to the channel! Best regards!

This video is a game saver... Thanks so much! I spent hours doing anything and everything else. Under 10 minutes with you and my laptop is booting again!

I am forever subscribed you saved my life. I spent HOURS sorting this out and your video was the one that fixed my issue. Xoxo

Thanks for your help, I just bought my laptop almost a month ago and I noticed the screen was blue today, I follow many tutorial on KZfaq on how to fix it but still came out the same. I came across your channel and followed your tutorial and it works thanks alot.

Great video!!!! This is useful information I'm going to try the next time I help a friend with a broken Windows system that can't boot. THANK YOU for posting this!

You saved me hours of work, I had to see the video many times but at the end I was able to understand. Your content is amazing! Keep up the good work :)

Thank you so much! Before I stumpled across this instruction, I spent a whole day trying to repair my system startup with a couple of Linuxes, Windows and Haiku on its drive.

Thank you Brother, after wasting 4 days on different videos, your solution worked.

whenever i press turn off and then boot it back up i’m just stuck at the infinite boot loading screen where it powers off and back on

Pressed the bell icon ,liked ,shared,and SUBSCRIBED because this man deserves it .The commands were so much useful. And for the first time anything got fixed by my hands

Thank you so much! I spent 6 hours searching for a solution and this is the only thing that worked.

Brilliant. Thank you so much. Just got my child's PC back up using these tips. Did the USB boot and was a breeze.

Man, you just saved me! I was getting ready to install all my system again, but decided to try your video as a last resource. Thank you so much! Just subscribed, you know your stuff.

Thanks man, I have been struggling from 3 days, this fixed it

It's 2:25 am and you saved my life! After updating the bios, I booted the system - everything worked. I don't know what happened but after a reboot the system stopped booting - blinking cursor. I was scared if the bios update didn't break something. Your advices in the video saved my system. Thank you very much

Usually, I dont comment on videos. But this one saved me tons of headaches. I was converting uefi to mbr, but my mobo didnt support it so I had to manually change some items and enable CSM in order to boot properly. Thank you!

We almost lost it, thanks for this one.

5:02 I got an error saying "failure when attempting to copy boot files" after this I exited and restart and now I have an error message when I boot up of 0xc000007 saying my PC needs repaired . Not sure anyone can help with this?

This video, after watching close to 50, has actually helped me and solved my problem...thank you so much

After atleast 5 videos you are the only one that helped Chris. Thank you so much💯💯🤟🏾🤜🏽👊

I don’t normally write comments but I wanted to thank you for this video! Appreciate it!

Thank u so much. Tried other youtube vids but yours explains so clearly and completely. I know bits and pieces about computers but I felt sure I would end up with a reinstall/ early backup restore this time. Really good to learn how to do these things anyway. Will defo look at your other vids. Excellent stuff 🙂 Will also follow advice about registry backups as well. Been looking at Linux. Becoming more encouraged to take the plunge every day👍

Chris my man listen I love your videos you literally saved my life today :) thank you so much loved the way you get into things and bring stuff beyond and not just a regular youtube video have a good day

You made my day this video was very helpful and the step you told that are missed by others is actually that helped me thank you for giving the full walk through it solved my problem as all other steps did not work for me from other videos

I love you Chris Titus (plz don't tell my wife). [Heartfelt] thank you. Only took me 15 hours to find you...

Everything is going quite well up to 4:40 when you have to type in the next line. Beyond this point when i type in the full cmd line (bcdboot c: etc) i'm getting the error: "failure when attempting to copy boot files". And the problem is also that it's kind of more confusing for me, because when i open cmd prompt it does start in a different path. (x:\sources) And also my volumes have different letters.

Finally, a competent youtube tutorial and explanation. I recommend and thank you sir!

You helped me so much with this Video 2 Years ago!!! My Musiccomputer was no more able to start up. I have made a Clone of my System Harddrive and i made step by step in the comandprompt what you showed me in your Video. It was for me like a wonder because after this my Music Computer started again up, my whole Musiccomputer worked again and i still work with this repaired Windowssystem ! Few months ago i had the same start up Problem with my Computergraphics System. I folowed again the steps of this Video and also my Computergraphics System is repaired and again working !!! Thank you so much for your Videos, i can learn so much from you !!!

Hi Chris, great video! I have a question though. I cannot boot into my Windows 10 PC (normally). I can boot into safe-mode which is where I am entering the commands (via the CMD window). My C: drive is shown as "System" and that is the drive where Windows resides. I don't have any drive/partition for "System Reserved". In my case, would the following commands use C: in place of what you referred to as your system reserved (G:)? bcdboot c:\Windows /s : /f ALL bcdboot c:\Windows /s C: /f ALL Also, I tried (I got the two error messages on the last two commands): bootrec / fixmbr bootrec / fixboot (Access is denied) bootrec / scanos (The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry) bootrec / rebuildbcd (The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry) Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Kevin.

Got the error code 0xc000014c . Tried a lot of suggestions with no fix. Now I'm stuck in a blue recovery screen that says to Press enter to try again, Press 1 to enter recovery, Press 8 for start up, Press ESC for UEFI however computer does not allow any of these actions and after about 2 min. computer shuts off. The Computer is a 2 yr old HP Windows 10 . This all started when trying to upgrade to Windows 11. Computer crashed and is junk right now. Not happy HP or with Microsoft !

you made my day, abslut brilliant. after 3 days with this constant boot loop, i found your video and was able to fix this problem with your instructions. thank you so much

I never make comments on videos but this IS crazy helpful. The only tutorial to actually fix a problem. You are a legend man.

your a life saver, man i thought i had to reformat my drives and iso

Great video but unfortunately it didn't work for me. For some reason my EFI partition is on volume 1 and my windows partition is volume 0. Could that be affecting it?

Wow!!! You,re a life saver!!! Thank you for this video this saved me from doing a clean windows install and loosing all my files and saved me from hours of headache to reinstall everything... Just wow can't thank you enough.

Thanks for the help with the boot repair. Really came in clutch.

OMG! I have tried everything since last week and finally found the solution here. I can't thank you enough for making this video. Infinite likes for this video. Thank you so much! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

U ARE A LEGEND. I AM DEFINITELY SUBBING. I LITERALLY WATCHED 100 VIDS AND THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT FIXED. I LOVE YOU

Thank you so much for making this video. I tried working with HP support and they were unable to fix the issue. Their solution was to reinstall the OS. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge with us!

The best explanation and method. It's working completely fine after following this method. I was following it from other sources no one explained why access was denied. But you did. Thank you so much.

No way, I somehow managed to revive my old laptop simply by reassigning the C drive. Thanks!

We found the best human being on earth according to my cousin 🙄💜🔥

Amazing video ! Worked like a charm i cannot thank you enough for this ♥️

You saved me from reinstallation of win 10. Very good tips. I got solution following your video till 7th minutes. Very useful and time saving tips.

When I type the command select disk 0, I get “the disk specified is not valid”. I really don’t know what to do

thanks this is nice info, i sometimes i need, to help friends out many many thank you chris !!!

I was up for 12hours trying to fix this issue and here comes this vid and problem solved thank you

It is a very well done video on how to fix broken Windows startup. He is very clear and concise about what needs to be done, none of the non sense humors from other posters. I happened to have a Dell Inspiron 15 gaming laptop with i7 CPU, 16GB, discreet Nvidia 4GB GPU, 4K TFT display, that I have to do this a lot, mainly because Windows got corrupted after a DPC Watch Dog Violation error that crashed Windows. Unfortunately, Dell HW diagnostics did not find any HW errors so my computer crashed every now and then with this dumb error and no resolution for. I used similar procedures to rebuild the boot partition on this machine at least 10 times, after reloading Windows from scratch a few times prior. This video is one of the best I have seen to fix Windows boot partition.

Oh man, you saved my PC, THANKS!

*need help* when I do "list vol" I only have c:/windows and SYSTEM. The last one is hidden and it is FAT32. What should I do next???

Thank you sooo much. I was trying to recover from a backup and it just would not boot and I was so afraid I lost everything. I really appreciate your help!

You save my time, I fixed "reboot and select proper boot device error". Thanks!

At 2:38 when I typed "list vol" I don't see a Volume that has "System Rese" as a label. How do I fix this?

Thanks man I was trying to recover windows for 5 days 😭

It *worked*! I got one error that I had the wrong kind of BIOS, and a few of the commands came back with no message, but I've successfully booted the repaired system! Thanks, Chris!

Very big help -- windows restored, you are the man!

The steps in this repair procedure are relatively straightforward except for the part about changing the letters on two of the volumes (3:28). It would help to explain the necessity of doing this. I have the Command Prompt open and I am attempting to make these repairs. The next step is to change the letters. It would also help those of us who have some, but not a lot, of computer technical knowledge to explain in greater detail what the labels used to describe the listed volumes mean and in which volume the BIOS files are located. On my computer, the diskpart is showing five volumes. One says Windows. One says Recovery. And one has no identifying label. On the video, the technician is only having to identify and work with two volumes. In my case, the volume containing Windows is clearly labeled. But I don't know which of the other two volumes is the correct one to re-letter. Is it the volume that says Recovery, or is it the volume that has no identifying label? Volume 0 E DVD/ROM 0 B Volume 1 C Windows 908 GB Volume 2 F 836 GB Volume 3 D Recovery 21 GB Volume 4 Fat32 260 GB Hidden

Thank bro, I starting think I would have to completely reinstall windows

Thanks so much for this. I was fighting this for a couple of days and you fixed.

I was able to fix my PC following these instructions. Thanks!

hey man when i tried restarting my PC once again it said the same thing i followed word for word and it said the same things

"Failure when attempting to copy boot files." What am I should do next?

thank you sir for your knowledge, I only needed the first part of your video to reassign my drive letters as Windows went and forgotten somehow thanks again keep up the great work.

I give you 20 star because just following this saved me from losing my Data. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏

I am officially switching to Linux

Hello at 5:22 it says “failure when attempting to copy boot files”

great documentation, thanks ! I just fixed a relative's PC that wasn't bootable using your methods :-)

Dude, you helped me get my computer up and running again. Thanks!

This did not help at all. I followed the video instructions step by step, exactly how you did it and my computer responded on the exact same ways. However, it has only worsened the problem as now I am stuck in a Recovery window and am unable to get back to the trouble shooting window. I'm fairly certain it has just corrupted my system 32 and now I will lose all the files on my computer...

Chris, did you break W10? If so, how? PS, KZfaq says that there are 4 views and 28 comments. Either many people react before having seen enough of the video to be counted as a view or KZfaq its software is buggy.

Thank you so much bro, your are a life saver, I had all of my work in the computer and your video helped me reboot the PC once again. Thanks alot bro hope all be good for you.

While your tutorial didn't fixed my issue, I'm glad that helped me out. My installation is somehow corrupted, but at least I'm no longer stuck at Automatic Repair. Edit: It turns out it has a minor issue that I can bypass, so thank you for the video!

Says "Failure when attempting to copy boot files."

Did all the steps ,and I’m still in the loop lol

You saved my headache and stress. Thank you so much!!!!!

Thank you very much @Chris. Got my PC fixed. Have tried a lot but you made it simple. Thanks man

It just bring me back to Automatic repair 😥

Be careful with this or you can screw up your PC even more, in my case it got even more screwed up and now a blue screen appears and then it turns off, I can no longer enter advanced options or anything.

I encountered a startup issue when converting my HDD from mbr to gpt. I was quite surprised about the complexity of the solution, but your video was very helpful, thanks!

My M.2 drive is now restored thanks to this excellent video. The boot was corrupted after I changed my processor core settings with msconfig, I tried several methods to recover, but all failed in continuous loops, I neven tried to repair all files within windows that were changed on the date the system did not boot, changing attributes and permissions to each file, but that did not work, so I restored all files back. I kicked myself for not going here first and investigate the partitions, a huge thankyou, I am now subscribed :-)