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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Windows 2008 Disk Resize Fix - Error 0xc0000225

If you increased the size of Windows 2008 system disk using a third party tool such as gparted. You will get an error similar to,

Windows failed to start...

File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded...


To fix the issue follow these steps.
1.Boot the windows server 2008 cd
2.Select your language
3.Select repair your computer
4.Run following commands
c:\> cd \windows\system32
> bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
> bcdedit /set {default} device boot
> bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot
5.Restart

NOTE: You can just use shrink volume from within the storage manager to change the disk rather than using third-party tools.

7 comments:

  1. Thank you worked like a charm!

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  2. Thank you for this. Your solution worked for me.

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  3. Thank you very much! I save a lot of time! Yout solution worked!

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  4. This worked for me: Run the vmware converter once more but manaully choosking the disk mode as SCSI instead of IDE under options.

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  5. THANKS!!! This saved a lot of my time.
    It worked for my SBS 2008

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  6. I LOVE YOU... in a technically way. I resized a customers SBS 2008 harddisk. And the above made the server boot again.

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  7. Thanks very much; this solution works

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