Guaranteed Fix: Use Easy Recovery Essentials

Easy Recovery Essentials is guaranteed to fix the 0xc0000225 error automatically using
its built-in Automated Repair option. EasyRE is currently available for Windows XP, Vista,
7 and 8 and can be downloaded and created on any PC.

1. Download Easy Recovery Essentials. Make sure to note your Windows version (XP,
Vista, 7 or 8) before you download EasyRE. This guide can help you identify what
version of Windows you have installed.

2. Burn the image. Follow these instructions on how to burn the bootable ISO
image very carefully, as making a bootable CD can be tricky! Alternatively, these
instructions explain how to create a bootable EasyRE recovery USB stick/drive.

3. Boot up your PC from the Easy Recovery Essentials CD or USB you created.

4. Once EasyRE is running, choose the Automated Repair option and click
Continue.

Choose Automated Repair in Easy Recovery Essentials

 5. After EasyRE scans your computers drives, identify and select the drive letter for
your Windows installation from the list, and then click on the Automated Repair
button to begin.

Choose the drive associated with the Windows installation youre trying to repair.

Fix #1: Rebuild the BCD

You can rebuild the BCD by following these steps to access the bootrec.exe tool:

1. Insert your install disc

2. Click on Repair your computer after you go through the language and time settings

3. Select your Windows installation drive, which is usually C:\, and click Next

4. Choose Command Prompt when the System Recovery Options box appears

5. Write the following command and press Enter afterwards:

bootrec /rebuildbcd
Fix #2: Manually configuring the active partition

Its very common to have this error displayed as a cause of having the wrong partition set
as active.

Referring to the description of how the PC boots, the BIOS tries to start the boot loader up
from the active partition and the bootloader searches for its configuration data from the
active partition as well.

If the active partition is corrupted or incorrectly set, many errors including 0xc0000225 can
happen.

Use diskpart from the command line to set the correct partition.

1. Execute the following commands to see a list of all partitions on your disk:

2. diskpart
list part

3. Once youve determined which of the displayed partition needs to be active (not sure?
Easy Recovery Essentials can automatically detect problems with your active partition and
automatically reconfigure the correct partition for you, no command line needed), carry
out the steps below to make the changes:

4. select partition x
5. active
6. quit

7. Press Enter after each command

8. Reboot for the changes to take place

Fix #3: Restore the MBR

This fix demands more commands you need to type than the Fix #1 above. Youre going to
use the bootsect.exe file from the CD and not bootrec.exe. Follow these steps:

1. Insert your Windows install CD

2. Select Repair your computer after you go through the initial screen

3. Select your Windows installation drive (usually C:\)

4. Click Next

5. Choose Command Prompt at System Recovery Options window screen

6. Determine which drive letter your Windows installation disk is on. Run the following
commands in the exact same order and hit Enter after each:

7. diskpart
8. select disk 0
list volume

9. After entering list volume your Command Prompt will show a list of available drives.

Search for the item that has CD-ROM in the Type column and check what letter
it has assigned in the LTR column. In our example (and from now on) our CD
drive letter is E:

10. Close the diskpart process by running exit and hit Enter:

exit

11. Type the CD drives letter, F: (simply F:), in the Command Prompt line, like this:

F:

12. Type cd boot and then type dir to show the list of files and directories in the boot
directory of the F: drive. You will now see a bootsect.exe file listed. Here are the
commands in order:

13. cd boot
dir

14. Now type the following command and hit Enter:

bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr

15. After seeing the success message, Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted
volumes., type exit to quit the Command Prompt:

exit

16. Press Enter

17. Restart your computer