winload.exe missing or corrupt 0xc000000e Windows 7 Recovery Console Startup Repair Not Working

Has anyone come up with a fix for this because all of the information listed doesn't help at all I have done everything listed.

I have read this thread multiple times trying to find a fix for this.  If you have tried all of the above; next, try this.

Boot from PE disc equal to the OS installed. (Probably 7, as these commands may not exist in other PE discs)

run this command at the prompt.  (You may want to use /? to learn about what you are doing.)

BCDBoot.exe c:\windows /s C:

This created a new entry in the BCD that worked, but gave me a boot option screen that needed removed with:

BCDEdit.exe /delete {your-old-guid-that-doesn't-work} /cleanup

This procedure is pretty simple and worked perfectly for me.  Now, if I can only figure out how i screwed up the .wim in the first place... :)

The Windows 8/8.1............. Doesn't Boot .........repair is here................

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Hello There,

I had the same issue after trying to upgrade to Windows 10 from my Windows 7 Professional x64 OS. 

After my PC "updated" I was stuck in a start-up repair loop.

The Error I was receiving was file was corrupt.

I tried ChkDsk... No Dice. SFC /scannow ... Cannot run due to current system repair in progress...

After spending hours looking online and trying all the suggested commands.... Nothing was working.

So I tried something else...

I navigated to the source folder (c:\Windows\System32)

I deleted the corrupt file (del winload.exe)

I went to my Windows 7 Professional x64 laptop (Same Edition) and copied the C:\Windows\System32\winload.exe file onto the root of a flash drive.

I plugged this flash drive into my broken PC.

I then accessed the Recovery Console (AGAIN!!!) via the Windows 7 recovery cd and ran the following in commands:

1. wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description (This will help you locate the flash drive)

2. *: (* is letter assigned to your flash drive)

3. copy winload.exe c:\Windows\System32 (Assuming your system drive is C)

I verified that the file did indeed copy...

1. c:

2. dir Windows\System32\winl*

The file was present, so I rebooted and was back up and running.

Hope this helps.

There is a directory /BCD on windows vista boot volume. It contains windows boot menu entries, something that was boot.ini in older times. bcdedit.exe is a Vista utility to edit this information (bootrec.exe on others?). It also shows current entries (/query). When one lists the bcd entries they see, that an entry refers to a disk id. That's the clue of the problem.

If you move windows system to another partition and the id of the partition changes, windows boot loader will refuse to use it. One of the solutions is to copy the partition together with its id. In clonezilla there is an option "use dd to create partition table". The other solution is to rebuild bcd. Probably windows install does this, maybe there are tools for that too.

Hi

this is most helpful as I think I am exactly in your situation with the Win10 and Win7 situation.

where can I get the winload.exe file though? Is it available on the Windows Installation CD?

Thanks.