Paul Young 1,004 Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) It appears Windows 7 refuses to write the boot files to disk. The only way I can get this up is with Acronis. After a reboot the 0xc000000e happens again. I geuss W7 is corrupt and the only solution is to start over and erase the disk. I hope the issue is not with the drive itself. I did tests and even bad drives pass tests. BTW that W7 repair CD seems like a waste of time. Edited October 12, 2020 by kitekrazy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bapu 2,176 Posted October 12, 2020 50 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: BTW that W7 seems like a waste of time. Fixed 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craigb 2,875 Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) I'm uploading something for ya. Check the link in about an hour (it's over 4.9 GB!). Hopefully, you can find some place to download it. You may need to extract to a folder first (or you can use it on a bootable thumb-drive - Check out Rufus to create bootable media! ). As long as you had a Windows 7 license, you can use this. Note that this is v1903, so you'll still need to let it update itself after the upgrade. Here's where to get the .iso file: https://www.nwdreamer.com/W10/ (just right-click and save-as!). Enjoy! 🙂 [The upload just finished!] Edited October 13, 2020 by craigb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slartabartfast 172 Posted October 13, 2020 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Young 1,004 Posted October 13, 2020 I found out if you install W7 pre service pack 1 you are screwed. I did have a W7 iso with SP1 and had to start over. Windows update actually worked. It's an older machine and I don't think I could install W10 as the last resort Share this post Link to post Share on other sites