‘How to Resolve Windows ‘The boot selection failed….’
Error?
A Windows system might fail to boot if one or more required
boot files are found to be missing or corrupt. You can try
troubleshooting such problems by using Windows installation
disc. But if it fails to perform the required task, you
might need to install the operating system, which causes
data loss. In such cases, if no valid data backup is
available, you need to use data recovery utilities.
For an instance, consider that you try to boot a Windows
Vista or Windows 7 based system and it fails to boot
displaying the below error message on screen:
“The boot selection failed because a required device is
inaccessible”
This error displays with 0xc000000f error code. You cannot
boot into the system even at subsequent attempts of
restarting the system.
Cause
The above error might occur due to any of the below reasons:
Incorrect BIOS settings for the boot device, usually hard
drive. This might occur if you have recently performed some
changes in system BIOS settings.
One of more Windows boot items, like MBR, BCD store etc.,
are missing or corrupt
Solution
If Windows is unable to boot due to changed BIOS settings,
you should configure BIOS to default fail-proof settings and
set hard drive as the primary boot device. If this is not
the case, you should repair Windows startup files using
Windows Recovery Environment as follows:
Insert Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation disc into the
computer and boot the system
Press any key for starting the repair process when prompted
for
You need to then select the time, language and currency and
the desired input method
Click ‘Next’ and select ‘Repair your computer’ option
The ‘System Recovery Options’ dialog box appears, at which
you need to select the Windows installation you need to
repair. Click ‘Next’.
You can then select the ‘Startup Repair’ option. Instead,
you can also run ‘Bootrec.exe’ through ‘Command Prompt’
If the above measures don’t boot Windows successfully, you
should reinstall the operating system. You should then use
your recent data backup to restore the lost data. If no
clean data backup is available, use data recovery software
for efficiently extracting it. data recovery utilities are
powerful third-party tools embedded with high-end scanning
algorithms. The software also enable you to perform
comprehensive partition recovery in all cases of logical
crashes.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced and
fully-featured recovery utility designed for Windows 7 RC1,
Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It is a non-destructive data
recovery software providing advanced options including Drive
Status, Disk Cloning, Disk Imaging and RAW File Recovery.
The software supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file
systems.
Bury Shane is a data recovery expert doing research from
last 6 years on disk data recovery software and file data
recovery.
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