0x8007025D Error

Question

Hello all,

I have been trying to fix my heavily-corrupted computer for almost a week, first i tried sfc and dism but unfortunately windows update client was broken and the troubleshooter wasnt working properly to fix it so i moved on. I downloaded the installation media creator and tried to update windows from there to fix the issues but that also failed. I gave up and tried to reset, but that too failed. I was very frustrated, i gave up and made a usb flash drive with windows in it with my other computer and decided to reinstall windows.

I booted it up and i saw weird partitions. Apparently these were lenovo’s “special” partitions and important for the pc so i haven’t touched these. I formatted the partition that contained windows in it and tried to install but my computer gave me the 0x8007025D error. I have tried some solutions but none of them worked. I am out of ideas so i came here for some help.

P.S.: I dont know if the category is windows install or windows recovery right now so if the category is wrong for the post im sorry.

Answer 1

Thanks. Have you run diagnostics on the Laptop? What is the make and model?

Answer 2

Hi sumit,

Thank you for the fast reply. I ran chkdsk  and i got the following message;

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required.

122879999 KB total disk space

578520 KB in 163 files

188 KB in 67 indexes

0 KB in bad sectors

115755 KB in use by the system

65536 KB occupied by the log file

122185536 KB available on disk.

Unfortunately i’m on a laptop (im sorry for not saying that in the OP) so i can’t reseat my RAM and hard drive. 

Mchoco.

Edit: added some more information

Answer 3

Hi Mchoco,

I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 3 year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

It sounds like the hard drive on your machine has an issue. I would first reseat the hard drive and make sure the cable is intact. Also, reseat RAM because we don't know where the bad data is coming from in the buffer.

  ERROR_BAD_COMPRESSION_BUFFER                                   winerror.h
# The specified buffer contains ill-formed data.
# 1 matches found for "0x8007025D"

From the screen that says install now on the USB drive, click Repair your computer.

Choose to Troubleshoot>Advanced options>Command Prompt.

Run the following command:

chkdsk C: /f

You may have to replace C with the drive letter you are trying to install Windows on. To find the drive letter, in the command prompt type diskpart and list volumes command.

Keep us posted.