0xc0000225 Your PC/Device needs to be repaired

[Lucky5]

I've had this issue for awhile now like 3 months, I've just ignored it since I can put my pc to sleep and deal with it quickly when I restart for updates.

My drives used to be a 500gb ssd and 2tb hdd, around christmas I removed the HDD, copied the data from the ssd onto a new samsung 2tb ssd, and reformatted the 500gb ssd and use it only for games since the health is at around 83%, this issue didnt happen until around a few weeks after.

When I boot up my pc, this is the first screen I'm met with, I press Esc, then will bring me to another screen where I press enter, the computer restarts, sometimes does a disk check and sometimes doesnt, then it boots up and works like normal, I tried googling the issue but couldn't quite find anything that had both the 0xc0000225 code and winload.efi, I tried going to reset my pc to reinstall windows but I don't have a USB stick, it broke awhile ago


Specs: 3700x, ASRock velocita B550, bios P2.20, 16gb ram ddr4 3200 cl14
OS: Windows 10 home 10.0.19045 Build 19045

[kb5zue]

My drives used to be a 500gb ssd and 2tb hdd, around christmas I removed the HDD, copied the data from the ssd onto a new samsung 2tb ssd, and reformatted the 500gb ssd and use it only for games since the health is at around 83%, this issue didnt happen until around a few weeks after.

 

Just thinking here going by what you wrote, I am assuming the new Samsung 2TB is your boot drive and the 500GB is a slave drive since it only has games on it.  Is that right?  As a result, I'm thinking the problem could be that you didn't make the 2TB a bootable disk using something such as a Windows Media Creation Tool.  Is that a possiblility?  That would make the 2TB your Windows boot disk while saving the other for your games.

 

take care and good luck.

 

[Lucky5]

2 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

My drives used to be a 500gb ssd and 2tb hdd, around christmas I removed the HDD, copied the data from the ssd onto a new samsung 2tb ssd, and reformatted the 500gb ssd and use it only for games since the health is at around 83%, this issue didnt happen until around a few weeks after.

 

Just thinking here going by what you wrote, I am assuming the new Samsung 2TB is your boot drive and the 500GB is a slave drive since it only has games on it.  Is that right?  As a result, I'm thinking the problem could be that you didn't make the 2TB a bootable disk using something such as a Windows Media Creation Tool.  Is that a possiblility?  That would make the 2TB your Windows boot disk while saving the other for your games.

 

take care and good luck.

 

I dont remember how I set it up, but the 500gb ssd doesnt have any windows related files in it, how do I confirm the 2tb ssd is my boot drive? I do want the 2tb samsung ssd to be the boot drive and the 500gb only for games and other non-important files

[kb5zue]

1 hour ago, Lucky5 said:

I dont remember how I set it up, but the 500gb ssd doesnt have any windows related files in it, how do I confirm the 2tb ssd is my boot drive? I do want the 2tb samsung ssd to be the boot drive and the 500gb only for games and other non-important files

You need to get yourself a USB and create a windows media creation tool.   what the tool does is set the USB up as a boot device and does the windows install for you.  You can get the WMCT here:

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d

 

When to use the tool, make sure that only 2tb ssd is in the system.  The tool will do all the work for you, all you need to do is boot from that usb.  To set the usb as your boot device, go into the BIOS of your machine and look for something similar to boot devices.  Click on that and go down under it to choose the usb as the default device.  Once that is done, exit the BIOS but don't forget to save it first.

 

reboot the machine using the flash drive and follow the onscreen instructions.  it will do all the work.

 

take care and good luck.

 

[kb5zue]

Just now, kb5zue said:

You need to get yourself a USB and create a windows media creation tool.   what the tool does is set the USB up as a boot device and does the windows install for you.  You can get the WMCT here:

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d

 

When to use the tool, make sure that only 2tb ssd is in the system.  The tool will do all the work for you, all you need to do is boot from that usb.  To set the usb as your boot device, go into the BIOS of your machine and look for something similar to boot devices.  Click on that and go down under it to choose the usb as the default device.  Once that is done, exit the BIOS but don't forget to save it first.

 

reboot the machine using the flash drive and follow the onscreen instructions.  it will do all the work.

 

take care and good luck.

 

Once the process is complete, remove the usb from the system and go into the BIOS and change the boot device from the usb to the ssd.  Save and exit and you should be good to go.

 

take care and good luck.

 

[Lucky5]

17 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

You need to get yourself a USB and create a windows media creation tool.   what the tool does is set the USB up as a boot device and does the windows install for you.  You can get the WMCT here:

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d

 

When to use the tool, make sure that only 2tb ssd is in the system.  The tool will do all the work for you, all you need to do is boot from that usb.  To set the usb as your boot device, go into the BIOS of your machine and look for something similar to boot devices.  Click on that and go down under it to choose the usb as the default device.  Once that is done, exit the BIOS but don't forget to save it first.

 

reboot the machine using the flash drive and follow the onscreen instructions.  it will do all the work.

 

take care and good luck.

 

okay, I had hoped there was a fix that didnt need a USB drive as I dont have one, but I will do that and ill make sure to only have the 2tb boot drive installed, thank you

[kb5zue]

19 minutes ago, Lucky5 said:

okay, I had hoped there was a fix that didnt need a USB drive as I dont have one, but I will do that and ill make sure to only have the 2tb boot drive installed, thank you

let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.  just make sure the USB that you get for this little project is at least 8 gigabytes in size.  Of course a little bigger wouldn't hurt either but must be as big as 8.