My PC wont boot - error code 0xc00000e9

[aandyaoe]

My computer randomly (at least seemingly) froze a couple days ago. I had to manually restart my computer with the power button. After I restarted it, my computer would not get past the opening windows screen. It would usually just freeze and after a couple more trys, I was greeted with an error message that says:

Windows has has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer.

This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your computer.

If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware manufacturer.
Status: 0xc00000e9

Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurrred.

I then shut down my computer and made sure that everything was connected (HDD, CD Drive, etc.) was connected properly. However, nothing I have tried so far including startup repair has worked. I've searched around forums for a while now with no results.

Any help or suggestions?
Thanks.

 

[lxxjordan23xxl]

Sounds to me like you HDD is failing but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Greg Brown]

A virus has infected your Bios and changed the drive from a SATA to a PATA or ATA or vice versa

 

[aandyaoe]

A virus has infected your Bios and changed the drive from a SATA to a PATA or ATA or vice versa

and how would i go about fixing that to go back to my normal SATA drive?

 

[Greg Brown]

reboot and log into the BIOS and change the hard drive setting

 

[aandyaoe]

reboot and log into the BIOS and change the hard drive setting

So i went into my BIOS but I'I'm not sure what I'm looking for. The only thing i found related to SATA is Sata ports settings where u have 3 choices (AHCI, RAID, IDE) but ive tried all 3 of those and none of them produce any good results. Anything else I should be looking for?

 

[aandyaoe]

Edit: My PC does boot in safe mode if that helps at all

 

[mozor]

Hi, I think it`s not virus try disconect your all usb cable mouse keyboard when you try restore your system and connect only when you need press a button I my case it`s work

 

[Moeed Akber]

A virus has infected your Bios and changed the drive from a SATA to a PATA or ATA or vice versa

Greg you are 100% right bro. i am just facing the same problem and worked hard for last 5 hours but just now saw your comment and manually change the Bios drive to the right one.
Thanks Bro.

 

[Paula Huo]

A virus has infected your Bios and changed the drive from a SATA to a PATA or ATA or vice versa

Greg you are 100% right bro. i am just facing the same problem and worked hard for last 5 hours but just now saw your comment and manually change the Bios drive to the right one.
Thanks Bro.

Would you kindly let me know how I can change the hardware setting in BIOS?
Thanks a lot.

Paula

 

[Muhammad Boota]

Its about nothing friends, just i restart the system and its booted up perfectly so don't worry ..
Now i am Installing 8.1 ..
Thanks

 

[VongaiziusFashion Cathy]

This happened to me. What i did was boot my pc on my dvd drive (f11) Put my Vista OS. Click repair . Done.

 

[Richard Carey]

If you're having trouble booting from any device (hdd, cd/dvd) you might want to see if any of your processor pins are bent. It does happen and it makes it behave very strangely.

 

[spymuthu]

your hard disk was failed,
try replacing a new HDD

 

[D4Nny]

My computer randomly (at least seemingly) froze a couple days ago. I had to manually restart my computer with the power button. After I restarted it, my computer would not get past the opening windows screen. It would usually just freeze and after a couple more trys, I was greeted with an error message that says:

Windows has has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer.

This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your computer.

If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware manufacturer.
Status: 0xc00000e9

Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurrred.

I then shut down my computer and made sure that everything was connected (HDD, CD Drive, etc.) was connected properly. However, nothing I have tried so far including startup repair has worked. I've searched around forums for a while now with no results.

Any help or suggestions?
Thanks.

 

[D4Nny]

Yo my laptop did exactly the same thing this morning froze whyle I was on you tube I had to turn of by the power button and now I recieve the same code

 

[TommyO]

Yo my laptop did exactly the same thing this morning froze whyle I was on you tube I had to turn of by the power button and now I recieve the same code

And what did you do to fix it? I had the same problem with my laptop

 

[julyus angeles]

Please help,my laptop still not working with this problem for a month.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Please post a new thread rather than digging up an old one.