I have been having issues with my keyboard and no amount of work arounds seemed to work so I inserted the Windows disc and selected Upgrade to see if it would fix the issue. Well after about an hour I went back to the PC and it was stuck in a boot up loop. A screen would pop up that had two options:
I gave up on this and tried to install Windows fresh so while still in Windows I inserted the disc and selected Clean Install. The first thing it said was that the files on the E: drive needed repairing and the options were:
I went back into the BIOS and selected #3 to boot to. It rebooted and I get a Windows with the same two options as with my first attempts at reinstallation:
Failed to start Windows Installer possibly due to recent hardware or software changes.
File \$Windows. ~BT\Windows\System32\Windload.UEFI
Status 0xc000000f
Selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupted.
Can anyone PLEASE help me here as this PC useable without a keyboard and now I can't even reinstall Windows.
Thanks
Alan
- Windows Install
- Windows 7
I gave up on this and tried to install Windows fresh so while still in Windows I inserted the disc and selected Clean Install. The first thing it said was that the files on the E: drive needed repairing and the options were:
- Repair
- Skip Repair
- UEFI Windows Boot Manager
- My hard drive
- UEFI P5: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS70 (is this the E: drive)?
- P5: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GHNS70
I went back into the BIOS and selected #3 to boot to. It rebooted and I get a Windows with the same two options as with my first attempts at reinstallation:
- Windows Install
- Windows 7
Failed to start Windows Installer possibly due to recent hardware or software changes.
File \$Windows. ~BT\Windows\System32\Windload.UEFI
Status 0xc000000f
Selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupted.
Can anyone PLEASE help me here as this PC useable without a keyboard and now I can't even reinstall Windows.
Thanks
Alan