how to fix bootres.dll is corrupt in windows 10

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how to fix bootres.dll is corrupt in windows 10

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Answer 1

(1) What do you mean you deleted the corrupt bootres.dll file? From where?

(2) Can you boot to Win 10 the way Trevor Seward (MVP) did in here...?...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/bootresdll-issue-partially-preventing-boot/c3d6ad5b-2d5f-41d7-8fe9-ab2aff809a2c

bootres.dll Issue Partially Preventing Boot

He said, "If I shutdown the machine while Windows attempts to boot (black screen, no logo), then power it back on, it boots successfully." If so, make your backups. Also, create Win 10 Installation media from here...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Download Windows 10

As the site says, match it to your Edition (Pro, Home, etc.), Architecture (64-bit/x64 or 32-bit/x86) & Language of the computer on which it will be used. But that should autofill correctly when making the media using the computer in question.

(3)  BTW, Trevor's ultimate solution was to upgrade his BIOS. Your current version shows in MSInfo32 (ask Cortana). Go to the site of your computer manufacturer (BING your System Model also in MSInfo32) to see whether there is one for you.

(4) If (3) fails for you, I want to say Surveillance-NC posted the cure above in this thread. But I'm scared off by others who said it didn't work or was even catastrophic. I wonder whether it was because they didn't identify the correct letter for the Windows partition. It isn't necessarily C: in the recovery environment. Well...

Try to Regenerate your boot files. Here is how to do it in a UEFI system. This may be done from within Windows, actually. If doing it from within the Recovery Environment -- ie., "Choose an Option > Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt" -- ensure the Windows partition is still C: in that environment. If not, use the letter you see in a List Vol...

If you've got more than one letter, Identify your Windows partition by its label, size & that it says "Boot" in the Info column. Note its letter. Your System partition will be FAT32 & says "System" under Info. Note its volume number.

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Edit 11/4/18: When at the Command Prompt of the Recovery Environment (i.e., not booted to Windows), the Info column shows nothing for the Windows partition. And it shows "Hidden" for the System partition...

Volume ###  Ltr  Label          Fs          Type          Size        Status     Info

  ----------     ---  -----------  -------   ----------  ---------  ---------  --------

  Volume 2     C    PCR Hard  NTFS     Partition    930 GB   Healthy

  Volume 3                             FAT32    Partition   100 MB   Healthy  Hidden

=================================================== 

So - for me, it would go like this...

DiskPart

Sel  Vol  4                                             << My System volume

Assign  Letter=S                                   << Give it letter S:

Exit                                                       << Leave DiskPart

B****CDBoot  C:\windows  /s  S:  /f  UEFI   << That fills the System partition (S:) with a new set of boot files

                                                                        from the Windows partition (C:).

DiskPart

Sel  Vol  4

Remove  Letter=S                                 << Remove the letter S:

Exit

Note: If you know the UEFI/BIOS to be set to boot in Legacy Mode, then use "/f BIOS" instead of "/f UEFI". If you don't know how it is set, use "/f ALL".

I've omitted the Format command, in case BCDBoot fails to work. BCDBoot will overwrite what is in there anyway.

Answer 2

Hello Fernanda, 

I tried this solution but didn’t work for me. The only fix for me was clean install from bootable DVD, (USB for me), try to backup your data at first, after clean install. Now it seems everything works fine.

Answer 3

Hi David

Yep it is the same, this is only the path shown in the SrtTrail.txt file

Give a try and let us know if your issue is fixed or not

Do not hesitate if you have any further questions

Jeff

Answer 4

Hello,

My specific folder path is not C:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\custom\bootres.dll, it is little different, my is C:\boot\resources\custom\bootres.dll. I do not know if it’s the same but i will try your solution than. Thank you very much.

Answer 5

Hi Jeff…

I’ve been thinking about this and I DID do a backup of just my data and reformatted drive C and did a clean load… now I know that I said I couldn’t remember what I did BUT I did reformat the drive.

Do that and get a clean start, it’s a full day’s work but when you think of the time wasted then it’s time well spent.

By the way a purchased a USB hard drive for £40 then after I had a clean drive C I did the Microsoft backup and restore (Windows 7) onto it so that I can do a “clean reload” with in a very short time frame.

Happy hunting…

Regards

Stan.