Solved Solution to 0xc000428 when dual booting Win7 and Win8

louisjms

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Hello all! I have found a few people with this problem (including myself) . If you have dual booted Windows 7 and Windows 8 (even by using a VHD to boot from) and are getting the 0xc000428 error when booting Windows 7, I have the solution.

1. Insert a Windows 7 Setup disc and boot from it.
2. Choose your language.
3. Click on "Repair you computer" at the bottom
4. Select "Windows 7" for the Windows installation selection
5. At the recovery tools page, click on CMD
6. Enter the following commands:

1. D: (adjust this to wherever your copy of 7 is located)
2. cd \Windows\System32
3. del winload.exe
4. copy "winload~1.exe" winload.exe
5. exit

Now boot into Windows 7, and download EasyBCD. From there, you can add a new OS into the bootloader using a GUI.

Hope this helps! :D:D
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 8 Release Preview Build 84--
    System Manufacturer/Model
    ACER Aspire 5733
    CPU
    Intel Core i3 370M
    Motherboard
    MB.BJW02.001 S989 Q5Wp2 La-6582P
    Memory
    6144MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics (Core i3)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in rubbish acer one :) and an external HP Pavilion Screen.
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    640GB SATA
    Case
    an acer plasticky one :)
    Cooling
    a very hot fan :)
    Keyboard
    built in rubbish :)
    Mouse
    Trackpad :)
    Internet Speed
    7MP/s
An even better solution:
Download Visual BCD Editor and change winload.exe to winload~1.exe for Windows 7 loader path.

No need to boot, reboot, delete, copy or whatever. :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    XP, Win7, Win8_Eval
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Notebook
    CPU
    Intel
[FONT=&amp]1. D: (adjust this to wherever your copy of 7 is located)[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]2. cd \Windows\System32[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]3. del winload.exe[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]4. copy "winload~1.exe" winload.exe[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]5. exit[/FONT]
Thanks a lot louisjms, this solved the issue in 5 seconds :party: And to think I went to all these different solutions, from the classic bootrec /fixMBR /fixBoot /rebuildBCD to disabling driver signature enforcement & even trying to delete protected system boot files (which i couldn't do even on CMD, i was about to give it a try in a Linux CD)

And Boyans, how do you expect us to install software when we can't even boot?! :sarc: If we could make it bootable I'd be a different story.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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