Cloned SSD will not boot, shows winload.exe error 0xc000000e

When you are booted into Windows 10, what drive letter does the Windows 7 partition have?

Macboatmaster said:

Yes they will do
so to repeat in case you need it
you boot into 10
you check the drive letter allocated to 10 -on my example C
you open File explorer - this computer and check the drive letter allocated to 7
you the use the cmds listed
changing the drive letters as necessary
So if in 10 - the drive letter for 10 is C and the drive letter for 7 is E then the cmds are as shown

thanks so if i'm in Window 10, my Win 7 drive is E, my commands would look like this correct?:

bcdedit /export e:\oldstore
bcdedit /createstore e:\emptystore
bcdedit /import e:\emptystore /clean
bcdboot e:\windows

Would I need to repeat the similar step when i'm logged into my Win 7 HDD?

NavyLCDR said:

When you are booted into Windows 10, what drive letter does the Windows 7 partition have?

yes, E

The command you want is:

Code:

bcdboot E:\Windows /d /addlast

Everything seems to be working as intended now!

When I did the bcdedit and bcdboot commands on my Windows 10 (bcdboot E:\Windows /d /addlast didn't seem to register in cmd), I wasn't able to boot to Win 10 anymore as it keeps booting into Win 7, even when I chose to boot from Win 10 drive.

I boot into Win 7 to do the similar bcdedit and bcdboot command to fix my Win 10. Win 10 started giving me bcd errors, was able to fix this by doing bootrec /rebuildbcd and bootrec /fixmbr.

fingers cross, hope everything is ok as I keep monitor the next week or so.

"bcdboot X:\Windows /d /addlast" is the standard command used to establish dual booting. Below is a dual drive system with Windows 10 installed on disk 0 and Windows 7 installed on disk 1. Both disks will boot independently into their respective OS and it is currently booted into Windows 10:





The single bcdboot E:\Windows /d /addlast command has the following result:

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.746]
(c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {b48085ed-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
displayorder            {current}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 10
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence        {b48085ef-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
displaymessageoverride  Recovery
recoveryenabled         Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {b48085ed-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
nx                      OptIn
bootmenupolicy          Standard

C:\Windows\system32>bcdboot E:\Windows /d /addlast
Boot files successfully created.

C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-us
inherit                 {globalsettings}
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {b48085f1-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
displayorder            {b48085f2-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
                        {current}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {b48085f2-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
device                  partition=E:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 7
locale                  en-us
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
osdevice                partition=E:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {b48085f1-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
nx                      OptIn
detecthal               Yes

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 10
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence        {b48085ef-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
displaymessageoverride  Recovery
recoveryenabled         Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {b48085ed-812f-11eb-b097-ea000bb970ef}
nx                      OptIn
bootmenupolicy          Standard

C:\Windows\system32>

This is the result:



And upon rebooting:



This is a computer system booting normally in legacy BIOS mode. It works exactly the same way on UEFI systems.

As a side note, in the hundreds of times I have used this command to set up multiple booting, the /addlast switch has never seemed to have any affect. The newly added OS still gets added to the top of the new boot menu list.

No apologies needed, I just wanted to show how the process works on a healthy computer. @imeem's computer obviously had some issues.