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Boot fails with error 0xc000007b after Windows Update
I have a dual-boot system with Ubuntu 14.04.3 & Windows 10. Since my video cards died a while ago I’ve not been using Windows much, but a couple of months ago I started up Windows to let it run some updates. After the obligatory reboot it just went into a loop of booting, telling me there had been this obscure error, rebooting to diagnose/fix it and then failing to fix it. I was pretty fed up after doing quite a bit of searching but finding nothing that seemed to relate to my situation and certainly nothing that fixed it.
But now I have a new video card and, although I am enjoying Ark Survival, there are other games I’d like to get back to that only run in Windows. I’m not sure where to start though - I’m not even sure what this error means. Windows at some point also mentions not being able to access the boot device which doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’ve run boot-repair from a live Ubuntu session and it reports nothing wrong. All the files that should be there are there and the partitions are all correct and accounted for.
Any suggestions? What does this error actually mean?