Background:
• Upgraded to Windows 8.1 preview from Windows 8, works fine for weeks.
• Randomly crashed one day. I believe it may have been waking from sleep mode when this happened. It cited:
"Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors.
File: c:\system32\winload.exe
Error code: 0xc0000001"
• I've tried many recovery paths. BCDedit, bcdboot, fixboot, Windows 8 & 8.1 recovery media. For all of these I think I am either doing them wrongly or I get an error message that says it can't access/edit the bit where Windows 8.1 preview is.
• On a different drive I have a copy of Windows 8 that I used to clone to the other harddrive (now containing crashed 8.1 preview) over a year ago. They are unrelated I believe.
• There's a suspicious lack of Windows related folders on the D:\ drive containing the crashed Windows 8.1. D:\windows doesn't exist and D:\WINDOWS only contains one folder: "logs". The other folders such as "program files" are all locked.
This issue has baffled me. Does anyone have any ideas?
Or, if you think it would help, logs or tests that I can provide to help clarify my issue?
Many thanks.
• Upgraded to Windows 8.1 preview from Windows 8, works fine for weeks.
• Randomly crashed one day. I believe it may have been waking from sleep mode when this happened. It cited:
"Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors.
File: c:\system32\winload.exe
Error code: 0xc0000001"
• I've tried many recovery paths. BCDedit, bcdboot, fixboot, Windows 8 & 8.1 recovery media. For all of these I think I am either doing them wrongly or I get an error message that says it can't access/edit the bit where Windows 8.1 preview is.
• On a different drive I have a copy of Windows 8 that I used to clone to the other harddrive (now containing crashed 8.1 preview) over a year ago. They are unrelated I believe.
• There's a suspicious lack of Windows related folders on the D:\ drive containing the crashed Windows 8.1. D:\windows doesn't exist and D:\WINDOWS only contains one folder: "logs". The other folders such as "program files" are all locked.
This issue has baffled me. Does anyone have any ideas?
Or, if you think it would help, logs or tests that I can provide to help clarify my issue?
Many thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1