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Error 0xC000009a when booting from flash drives
Hi
I have a problem I need to sort out as it involves my emergency flash drives. I have several flash drives for emergencies and three of them: Partition Assistant, Partition Wizard and ShadowMaker refuse to boot up and I stress that these are flash drives - currently Windows 10 boots up just fine.
When I try booting up using Partition Wizard I get nothing appearing on the monitor for a period of time (I've not timed it but I believe its several minutes) then the screen goes blue for a short while then the PC just switches off. With Partition Assistant and ShadowMaker, in very short order I get the error BlInitializeLibrary failed 0xC000009a but this is the only clue I have at present as to what may be happening.
I've searched the internet but haven't really come up with anything of any obvious use. However, what does seem to be common to all messages seeking help on this is Gigabyte mobos. I've just changed my mobo to an mATX Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO and installed it in a new case - but those are the only two new items I've used. I DIDN'T do a fresh install but let Windows sort out what needed sorting out and so far Windows has been running fine although the CPU temps are jumping all over the place (but that is something for another day). Currently I'm primarily concerned with my emergency flash drives not running up as they should. Oh I've also tested the flash drives on my husbands PC and they run up perfectly.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what could stopping the flash drives running up? Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks
Tracey Woodmason
PS I should add that I've put this post in this section but whether its the right one or not I really don't know and apologise in advance if it causes anyone any inconvenience.
PPS I'm running 21H1.