How to Fix Windows BCD Boot Erros 0xc0000098 0xc000000f 0xc0000034 

I did every step and it just boots up to a black screen with a circle and then reboots and keeps repeating the process

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I’ve spend 2 days trying to fix this issue!!! I’ve spent countless hours with tech experts trying to help and was told there was no hope of recovering my installation, but I have. Thanks to you!!!

Holy thank you, this helped so much! I started with 0xc0000098 and needed to reset my BCD for UEFI, which then brought me to 0xc0000001 and finally got me to a point where I could boot in safe mode

Very very helpful! It took a couple tries but just stick with it and you’ll eventually get it back. Thank you so much for posting these videos. After 4 hours I figured I’d hit a dead end but gotta be persistent when fixing pc problems haha.

I tried many videos before and nothing worked. I moved from error 98 to this one. And your video was clear, detailed and very helpful. Thanks a lot! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼

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I have done all the steps shown in the video, but it does not appear to me that a volume size of 100 MB only appears to me as a volume called uefi ntfs, and it is of the Fat type only, and its size is 1 MB. What should I do?

Guys don't use the clean Command ,I LOST ALL MY DRIVE DATA MY FILES AND SYSTEM BECAUSE OF THIS. My computer had problem again 5 days ago and i used the method i used last month ,but it didn't work so i tried the other two method in this video and after i clean the boot partition my C drive from gpt become mbr and what even worst my partition become RAW and that's end of my data files including my Os And apps. Didn't sleep for 3 days . I already saved all my important files one month ago and also long time ago but last month data i haven't save it yet. No way i can save my data every day, my OS gone and the problem i need to re-install my app. I was really exhausted i even skipped my breakfast and lunch to find the solution. This video is not really wrong but in some situation like mine it really made it worst delete bcd and rebuild is not really a good choice. I don't know what is in my head i should just use system recovery because the recovery option was available . But i thought last month i had almost the same problem and it solved i thought it will works this time too, i am such a stupid person.😢😢😢😢😢 it's because after my C drive partition become raw ,i followed other video said i need to format . But the video was made to deceive people and said without losing data .all because i delete bcd and rebuild . It will make your drive become mbr and raw.!!!

Thanks so much.. I have been trying to reboot my laptop for 3 days now. Your video and instructions worked the first time!

I am so thankful I found this video, My laptop crashes every 15-20 days and I come back to this video and use the last option to repair my laptop. So so thankful!

THIS VIDEO WORKS I’ve gone through maybe 10+ videos and this guy gets you passed multiple problems that others stopped at. I went from 0xc00014 to 0xc00000f or whatever and kept getting stuck. Stick to his instructions they help thanks man.

I on legacy mood and the problem the system partition not including volume list and when i try to shrink new one it tels me only efi only gpt , but when i open notepad from cmd and only explorer i find partition call X 500mb including boot system but not recognize on cmd volume or partitions

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Thank you, actually worked in 2024- I initially thought some of these comments saying it worked were bots, but it really did work!

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Hi, when I do bootrec /rebuildbcd and enter Y or A, I get 'The requested system device cannot be found.' even though it identified the disk with the windows installation, how can I fix this?

I spent a lot of time to fix restoring BCD boot issue.Its so helpful for restoring Windows. Thank you very much for this video.

Hi i have all file as ntfs no fat32 in efi based system what to do now

I'm not quite sure if THIS did the trick, but this video did make me realized that I needed to switch back from USB boot mode back to OS boot mode, so I'll give it a thumbs up.

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Thank you for this video, it has been very informative. Query: when I execute the last command (c:\windows /s z: /f all) I get the error - failure to copy every time What do I need to do to fix this issue.

Excellent videos on this channel. They really are apart from the rest for the simple reason that they explain what the commands are and the nature of the problem. This not only educates but makes it easy to remember and apply in future

Life saver! My windows 10 had same error. Tried all solutions from other websites. Mine was EFI boot and BCD folder had got deleted somehow (I was not on any dodgy website and also have latest AV installed, even then), so had to create one. 4th action in this video helped and My "All in one" came back ON as if it had never faced any issues

Dear friend, I am getting "Access is denied" when executing commend "bootrec /fixboot" Can you help. Thanks

dude thank u so much this randomly happened to me after what i think was a windows update… i thought i was gonna lose all my data but everything is all good i really appreciate it! got it fixed straight away 😊

You are amazing. Friend came to me with a laptop issue, had all their child's photos and videos on it. Step 4 fixed the issue! Thank you so much :).

Without this video I couldn't have fixed it. Thank you!

Thanks a lot man, very helpful video, I thought I had to reinstall windows all over again but you saved me 👌🏾

I tried both methods to fix the problem on a EFI system and both fixes were only temporary. As soon as I restart the PC there is a boot error again

Have a nice day dude, you save my day... my weekend (after cloning win 10 "\Boot\BCD Status: 0xc000000f ) the first description worked !!! THX🥳

I never comment often but thank you so much for this video you really helped me out. Truly thank you my friend.

In the last/penultimate step I cannot find a volume that is fat32, nor that weighs 100MB, the ones that appear are the following: -many NTFS. - 1 UDF. -1 FAT. I tried with FAT but since it only weighs 32 MB it tells me that it is too small for FAT32 and with the bcdboot command "c:\windows /s z: /f all" it tells me the following error: "Error trying to copy boot files."

additional note I tried the ren c:\boot commands and got system cannot find file specified. I can see windows when I go to notepad I see all the files and everything but none of these commands can work since I have no path..

Many times thank you man. Super time and money saver. Was worried I was going to have to buy a new c drive and reinstall everything.

My guy thank u so much, was really stuck and I tried everything, no luck.... Your step number 4 helped me a lot and my pc is back now.. Thank u my guy

System partition is not allowed to be formatted" Format failed"😢

When I use the bcd.old command it says the system cannot finf the file specified.Please help

Please help. My installation says it's in: J:\Windows. Volume 1 Letter D is my system rese Legacy BIOS. ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old gives me "The system cannot find the file specified." (Should I do j:\boot\bcd bcd.old) J drive instead? "bootrec /rebuildbcd" add installation = Y and fixboot gives "Element not found." I went to expert forums before this. They had me do these things below which I see are for EFI Based System that made changes to my system: bcdboot J:\Windows /s D: bcdboot j:\windows /s d: /f all bootsect /nt60 SYS bootsect /nt60 all bootsect /nt60 all /mbr

Thanks a lot man i spent 3 days tryin to fix 0xc0000098 with no results until i found ur video my laptop worked again thank you a lot bro ❤ keep going

I try all and still didnt solve 😢 i get BFSVC Error: Could not open the BCD template store. Status = [c000000f]

Thank you Sir🙏🏽 spent 12 hours trying to fix my issue resolved it in 10 minutes after watching your video

0xc0000225 and 0xc0000098 Pls help me. I cannot open the command prompt and automatic repair. And it cannot read my bootable USB. Help me pls..

Dude thank you SOO much. This would have cost me 70 USD and a week without my laptop. I also managed to recover my files!! I would have lost everything. Seriously. Thank you

In the last solution, wen I type bcdboot c:\windows /s d: /f all it said failed. How do I do if it say that? And my fat32 is d not z

And what if my firmware type is not efi does that means i cant fix it? Btw it says failure when attempting to copy boot files after format step

When i was udate bios this problem appear after do all your step then reboot it continues to udate bios and then reboot Normaly

When I do “format ?: /fs:fat32” it says “The type of the file system is NTFS.” “The new file system is FAT32.” “Enter current volume label for drive ?:” What do I enter for volume ? I tried just putting 1 because that’s the corresponding volume label for the 100 mb FAT32 partition but it didn’t work. Any ideas????

How about this problem : Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows in this computer, restart the installation. Anyone can help?

Hi dear my 3 cds is hidden and they arent have names how can i expose thia

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when i try to boot from a usb it keep going back to the same error window?? there are never any video on when it does not work

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tysm for the tutorial, I was getting insane when i tried to fix it, but after watching your video, it finally went back to normal. Once again thank youuuuuu

Hi, when I put the USB in and select it, it just shows the error and when I go to UEFI Firmware settings it shows the USB is selected and when I try to boot it again it shows the error message again please help

You are a life saver , Thanks a lot and lods of love from India. Issue resolved in second step after recreating MBR bios image via Rufus and following your steps .As my system firmware is MBR -Legacy bios and from last 2 days m trying from GPT compatible bootable pendrive .

How to fix this? I need to know please rec c:\boot\bcd bcd.old The system cannot find the file specified Thank you if someone will state their answer

If your on a desktop the last step will work guaranteed

Thank you man. I have an EFI based system but wasn't aware of that. Kept applying unsuccessfully the legacy bios solution for hours, because that was all I was finding online. Applied the EFI solution from your video and worked. Again many thanks.

why when command add installation bootrec /rebuild bcd always element not found?

Pls help me. I was working on my SA SAMS and suddenly the laptop said you computer has ran into a problem and we will restart for you. Since then it didn't restart and the screen is black but the power light is showing and i can hear the sound of a fan. Its been more than eight hours now

It says 0 and it doesn’t show the select Y or A option. What could I Do ?

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"Failure when attempting to copy boot files" after format partition ;/

For me it shown failure when attempting to copy boot files

"The requested system device cannot be found" it happends at the commad bootrec/rebuildbcd

Waooooo, thank you very much. I was thinking that i will lose my data but with your video, i got my all data back. Thank you very much

Sir mine is showing RAW 100 Mb and another one is NTFS 478 both are hidden, I couldn't find fat or fat 32, None of the method work for me can you please help..

Is it possible if I don't have any backup of my laptop. After going through this procedure the data will going to delete forever??

i’ve done everything you said and at the end just says it failed attempting to copy boot files, what can i do ?

Thank you so much step 4 works for me an EFI based system. This help me a lot with my work. Thank you again.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I FOLLOWED YOUR PROCESS AND NOTHING WORKED BUT SOMEHOW WHEN I'M ABOUT TO TRY THEAST STEP, IT OPENED OMG

I mistakenly assign the z to the system partition through diskpart, now It is showing along with my other drives. How to hide that partition?

Hey when I get to the part where I reformat the fat32 drive it tells me my system is ntfs & always says I’m entering the wrong volume which never formats the drive’ that’s the only thing keeping me from accessing my files smh

In installation to boot list when pressing y : the requested system device cannot be found

thank god i didnt have to take my laptop to customer service, you helped me starting my pc thank you

Bro last step is not good for me. Please help, when i go with Y and enter, The requested system device cannot be found.

OMG Thank you so much for the help! You have no idea how much this means to me!!

None of the steps worked for me. It shows Failure when attempting to copy boot files. What should I do ??

Found this video first and tried my luck but, it really worked I've tried the very first method and successfully repaired my pc ! Thanks To You Brainer, you saved my ass !! ❤️

My computer says “cannot find the file specified.” When I try to put a command in

ok.. I just did your video on bcdboot c:\windows /l en-us /s d: /f bios next I tried this video with these commands tried first one bootrec /fixmbr and I get the system cannot find the path specified. do you have a video on this fix? I cannot seem to find one. Thanks

I followed all the steps but i got "Failure when attempting to copy boot files". I'm using Linux mint and would like to go back to windows. Any help?

When I run the rebuildbcd command I get "The requested system device could not be found" any ideas?

When I entered the command bootrec /rebuildbcd it says "Element not found" what do I do?

I’m still getting failure when attempting to copy boot files on the last step

On add installation to boot list mine says the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

I tried to delete and recreate the BIOS based system but when I enter in ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old, it states “a duplicate file name exist, or the file cannot be found.” I don’t know what to do next.

First and second option not work for me the third one work perfectly with another video to create FAT 32 PARTITION HELPED ME THANK YOU SO MUCH😄😄😄

In the "Add Installation" prompt key.. part, it replies 'The requested system device cannot be found.' Also the "ren c:..." has a 'The system cannot find the file specified' reply.

The last comment is not working for me, its saying “the requested system device canot be dound”

didn't work for me. On windows server 2016. did everything and still get error, even winload efi error

please help, I don't have a fat32 volume all my volumes are NTFS, and the one that contained to hidden data is 611md. can't change the letter to z I'm really stuck

Thanks so much for the detailed guide! Unfortunately, I'm stuck in step 3a "/scanos". I know it tells you to wait and that it may take a while, and I do have multiple large (2TB) disks in my system, but I guess this should not take like 30 minutes? I also got a new command line ("X:\Sources>" before getting any result from /scanos. Should I keep waiting or retry? Thanks again!

My PC is rebooting in the flash drive

You deserves everything bro ❤

Im getting the issue with the boot media, windows itself wont even boot