Win 8 doesn't boot - winload.efi error - Easeus Partition Manager

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BhargavJ

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I just got a new Dell laptop, a Dell Inspiron 15 3537 (i5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, 1 GB HD 8670 Gfx card, Win 8 pre-installed). I started it up, tinkered for about half an hour, and saw that it had one single partition, around 450 GBs. Then I copied (an older version of) Easeus Partition Manager from my old laptop, installed it in the Dell laptop, and started it up.

It showed a whole lot of partitions; one was the 450 GB one that I can see in My Computer, then there was another 500 MB one, and three or four others. I took a screenshot but its in the non-booting Dell laptop. :( I resized the 450 MB partition, making one 100 MB one and leaving the rest to be resized later. Easeus asked for restart, so I allowed it do to so; after rebooting, it started working, and then all of a sudden I got this "Your PC needs to be repaired message", citing a problem with winload.efi, and an error code of 0xc0000225:

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Of the three options at the bottom, Enter and F8 don't work; if I press them, the same screen comes back. Pressing Esc shows another screen which I don't understand at all:

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I don't have the Windows 8 DVD with me; Windows came pre-installed with this laptop. I don't even know what the Serial no. of this Windows copy is. I was going to use Advanced Tokens Manager to copy it, but this happened before I could do it.

I have only the following on my old laptop: (1) Windows 7 x64 Home Premium ISO, (2) Ubuntu 14.04.1 x64 ISO, downloaded about a week ago, and (3) a 16 GB USB drive.

How do I repair the new laptop? :(

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[Urgent] Win 8 doesn't boot - winload.efi error - Easeus Partition Manager - Laptops - Windows 8

It might help many who face a similar problem in the future. My laptop now boots, but it shows two entries, one is Win 8 and the other is Win 8 (volume 3).
 
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So looks like you fixed the problem?
Boot entries can be fixed by editing GRUB or through Windows's EasyBCD tool.
 
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BhargavJ

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It is temporarily fixed. I'm going to format and reinstall Win 8.1. I'm currently downloading the Win 8.1 Single Language ESD. I'll report back with whatever happens.

There's another thread here:

Messed up recovery partitions.

and:

Windows 8.1 with Update ESDs Repository - Page 67

and in the same thread:

Windows 8.1 with Update ESDs Repository - Page 70
 
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That is why i prefer flashget(older v1.73) because unlike IDM it pre-allocate all file space & then fills in the data.this way if download is stopped & can not be continued for whatever reason one can still use it in a torrent of same file to resume the downloading.
 
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BhargavJ

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@ Whitestar: I didn't know about this. I'll try it next time.

I quick formatted the big 363.11 GBs partition as NTFS. Then I used GetDataBack for NTFS to scan that partition. It first shows:

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For the three partitions, it shows the same kind of data:

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The reason I'm doing this is I'm still hopeful of getting the factory ISO or whatever out of the recovery partition that I destroyed. But these images don't show any such data, do they? Any other software I can use to get the recovery ISO data from the recovery partition I destroyed?

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whitestar_999 said:
That is why i prefer flashget(older v1.73) because unlike IDM it pre-allocate all file space & then fills in the data.this way if download is stopped & can not be continued for whatever reason one can still use it in a torrent of same file to resume the downloading.
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Does flashget have the same level of integration with browser like on YT and Vimeo videos that IDM have? If yes, I would happily switch myself.

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[MENTION=155768]BhargavJ[/MENTION]: If your laptop came with original Windows, you should have get a Windows recovery disk. Or you can try to get it from the seller you bought the laptop from?
 
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I use flashget older version so it does not have IDM's level of integration but for all such things(from YT to any file/video hosting site) i use jdownloader.No one can match its capabilities when downloading from streaming sites like YT.Just copy paste your link(as i use portable not installed version) & it will give you a nice detailed lists of all formats to download after analysing the link.
 
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BhargavJ

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Vyom said:
[MENTION=155768]BhargavJ[/MENTION]: If your laptop came with original Windows, you should have get a Windows recovery disk. Or you can try to get it from the seller you bought the laptop from?
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I got this laptop from Dubai. It didn't come with any Windows DVD. It did have recovery partitions, and the first thing I should have done is to make recovery DVDs, but instead I resized the partition, destroying the recovery partitions. So now I'm downloading Windows 8.1 en-us Single Language .esd.
 
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For future reference there is no serial no. for pre-installed win 8 like earlier win versions.It is all embedded in your bios & during win 8 install it will pick up this info from bios to activate win 8 provided you are using correct version of win 8 that matches with key embedded in your pc bios(in your case it is win 8 SL).
 
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BhargavJ

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Yes, I came to know that just a few days ago. Its better having the key saved in the BIOS, rather than typing it every time you format - reinstall.

I just downloaded and installed Easeus Todo Backup Free; the reason I got this is because it can make a ghost image, and then make a bootable DVD that can read the image from the hard disk, so if Windows stops booting, I can boot from the DVD and copy the ghost image back. But I haven't yet tried this out.
 
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Never trust any backup restore software without doing at least 2 successful backup & restore to confirm everything works.
 
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BhargavJ

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I still haven't tried it out. But won't trust it straightaway.

Mods, I tried removing the word "Urgent" from the thread title by editing the first post I made, but nothing happened. Please do this using your admin rights. :)
 
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BhargavJ

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I don't remember now; the answer is probably in the Tom's Hardware forum thread that I've linked to in the first post.
 
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