Recently serviced boot binary is corrupt, can only boot into test mode, please help

Question

Startup Repair diagnosis and repair log

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Last successful boot time: ‎02/‎05/‎2025 16:14:19 (GMT)

Number of repair attempts: 3

Session details

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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0

Windows directory = C:\Windows

AutoChk Run = 0

Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for updates

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: System disk test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk failure diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk metadata test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 94 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk metadata test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Target OS test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Volume content check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Boot manager diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: System boot log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Event log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Internal state check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for installed LCU

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 1265 ms

Root cause found:

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A recently serviced boot binary is corrupt.

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Session details

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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0

Windows directory = C:\Windows

AutoChk Run = 0

Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for updates

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: System disk test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk failure diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk metadata test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 62 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk metadata test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Target OS test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Volume content check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 47 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Boot manager diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: System boot log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Event log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 15 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Internal state check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for installed LCU

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 1750 ms

Root cause found:

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A recently serviced boot binary is corrupt.

Repair action: Uninstall latest LCU

Result: Failed. Error code = 0x905

Time taken = 3109 ms

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Session details

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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0

Windows directory = C:\Windows

AutoChk Run = 0

Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for updates

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: System disk test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk failure diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk metadata test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 63 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Disk metadata test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Target OS test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 15 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Volume content check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 63 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Boot manager diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: System boot log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Event log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 31 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Internal state check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for installed LCU

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 2297 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for installed driver updates

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 515 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Check for pending package install

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 1172 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Boot status test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Setup state check

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 32 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Registry hives test

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 296 ms

Test Performed:

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Name: Windows boot log diagnosis

Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0

Time taken = 0 ms

Root cause found:

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Boot critical file c:\windows\system32\drivers\sfvfs02.sys is corrupt.

Repair action: File repair

Result: Failed. Error code = 0x57

Time taken = 766 ms

Repair action: System files integrity check and repair

Result: Failed. Error code = 0x57

Time taken = 500 ms

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I have been battling with my pc to get to this point, but it can only launch with diver signature enforcement disabled, not allowing me to do many things.

Another thing to note is that c:\windows\system32\drivers\sfvfs02.sys does not exist anymore as I found another post which said that simply removing all files relating to StarForce would help, therefore I ran their uninstaller and removed all related files. The main issue to me seems to be:

A recently serviced boot binary is corrupt.

Repair action: Uninstall latest LCU

Result: Failed. Error code = 0x905

Time taken = 3109 ms

I assume that uninstalling the latest LCU would work? But I am unsure of how to do this.

Also how can I come out of test mode? I have tried bcdedit /set testsigning off.

Answer 1

The commands ran correctly. The old BCD has been backed up.

Please restart the system. Test signing is now turned off (default setting).

Answer 2

Yes that did it! Thank you so much Ramesh

Answer 3

Yes that did it! Thank you so much Ramesh

Glad it's sorted. You may delete the BCD file we backed up to your USB setup disk.

And consider updating the BIOS when possible: https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/B650M%20Pro%20RS%20WiFi/index.asp#BIOS

Regards,