Windows Boot not working

Question

Hello.

Hello. I installed manjaro KDE Plasma to dual boot with windows 10 and I made two seperate partition as home and root. I also used the efi partition that was already present my marking it as /boot/efi during the installation. Previously I has ubuntu dual boot, which I deleted by clearing the ubuntu partition and removing the ubuntu folder from the efi partition. Now, Manjaro is installed successfully and opens fine via its OS selection menu but when I select windows option, Windows rolling ball animation is shown but then laptop will just restart and bring me back to OS selection menu. I have installed both manjaro in UEFI mode and windows was also installed in UEFI mode.

I have tried

bcdboot C:\windows /s V: /f UEFI

where V: is the letter I assigned to the efi partition using diskpart .But now I am presented with blue screen with error code 0xc0000001 on selecting windows bootloader. How can I fix this? I don't want to lose my manjaro dual boot and the data in windows partition too.

Here are some info that may help:

$ sudo parted -l

Ourput:

Model: ATA TOSHIBA MQ04ABF1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 263MB 262MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
2 263MB 397MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
3 397MB 376GB 375GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
9 376GB 418GB 42.4GB ext4
10 418GB 506GB 88.1GB ext4 legacy_boot
4 506GB 746GB 240GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
5 746GB 984GB 238GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
6 984GB 985GB 1038MB ntfs hidden, diag
7 985GB 999GB 13.7GB ntfs hidden, diag
8 999GB 1000GB 1526MB ntfs hidden, diag

$ sudo ntfsinfo -m /dev/sda3

Output:

Volume is scheduled for check.
Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use the 'force' option.
NOTE: If you had not scheduled check and last time accessed this volume
using ntfsmount and shutdown system properly, then init scripts in your
distribution are broken. Please report to your distribution developers
(NOT to us!) that init scripts kill ntfsmount or mount.ntfs-fuse during
shutdown instead of proper umount.
Failed to open '/dev/sda3'.

Answer 1

Hi

You can try a startup repair.

1. Go to Windows 10 download page on Manjaro and download Windows 10 ISO.
2. Download Balena Etcher
3. When both the downloads are done, insert a blank USB into the PC. Make sure it has at least 4 to 8 GB of space. All the data in the USB will be deleted!
4. Open Balena Etcher and select the Windows 10 ISO. Then select the correct USB drive and click on Flash!
5. If it shows some warning like The USB medium may not be bootable, just ignore it.
6. When Balena etcher completes it's process, boot from the USB.
7. In the Windows 10 installation environment, select the language you want and click on Next. Click on Repair this PC.
8. Go to Troubleshoot>Advanced Options>Startup Repair

Hope this works! :)