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Question

Windows Boot error 0x00000e Fixed iteself? What to do now?

May 13, 2017 10:20PM PDT

So i woke up yesterday and booted my computer to be greeted by a blue screen with an error code 0x00000e. Saying that it cant find my windows or something like that. Also heard some electrical popping coming from my outlet prior to this. Upon first boot my Keyboard and mouse werent working. So it must have been my faulty outlet that caused this. So i rebooted the system like 10 times from yesterday til now. In between i was swapping sata cables and doing to general dusting in my PC. Also securing my connections in there and swapping slots in my PSU. So i tried one last time and was greeted with the same screen. So i put the covers back on and disconnected everything from the back and it was just sitting for a couple hours. So i came to try something i read online that said restarting it 3 times will make some automatic windows repair popup or something, but im pretty sure thats for older versions but figured why not. So i plugged in just the PSU and turned it on and surprised surprise it decides to boot up normally.

tldr; Got a 0x00000e boot error, got same error after 10 reboots in the spam of two days. Left it completely disconnected and booted it again with just the PSU and its booted up.

Now my question is what should i do now that its working? Is there some windows repair service i can run? My Service and maintenance window says my drives are running perfectly normal.
Im just paranoid to turn it off at this point but its got to turn off at some point. I dont have windows disk as i had windows 7 an upgraded it.

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Answer
A few things.
May 13, 2017 10:28PM PDT

Since you can create a boot/repair USB stick or disk now, why not?
My favorite stick is made with the Microsoft Windows Media Creation Kit. It's free, has never asked me for a CDKEY and I'll refrain from commenting why folk don't do this.

Second, PCs are not reliable enough to use without this and a full backup. The recent world wide worm and ransomware account only reinforces what moderators here have been asking folk to do for years.

"We only lose what we don't backup."

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Any idea on the cause?
May 14, 2017 1:48AM PDT

Couple follow up questions, thanks for replying btw. First off, I actually did use the windows media creation tool. Hats off to Microsoft for that free tool, and I am actually currently in the process of "repairing" windows. I did end up restarting windows and was greeted with the same error. If I didn't mention in my previous post my first time encountering this error it made my keyboard not work. After I got it to work again I was still getting the error. Anyways after I got the error again right now my keyboard stopped working again. Thought I may be screwed but after just restarting it a bunch of times it decided to start working again. So I booted from my USB drive and am currently restore windows after it could find a fix for the drive. Don't mean to ramble on a lot, but more information the better help I can receive right? Anyways, I'm thinking my PSU might be going bad? Like it's not juicing my system well enough on startup? Just uneducated guesses, but I'm not sure why it my pc would be acting so randomly. I've had the PSU for about 3.5 years now so I wouldn't be surprised. I'm mean if restoring my pc doesn't work would it be safe to say it's my PSU or possibly my hard drives?
Also as a side question

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While I can make a list.
May 14, 2017 9:21AM PDT

That list would be on the web. It could be what you listed.

AFTER YOU BACKUP and are ready, run CHKDSK /F /R /X on all drives.