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I had problems with my SSD and I had to check and repair the disk through a Linux live USB. To do it I encountered the problem it could not run fsck because of windows hibernation, so I deleted the hiberfile with
mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile
Disk repair went successfully then, but when I try to reboot my windows 10 it fails with error code 0xc000000f
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What happened? What can I do to repair windows without having to download their ISO again?
1Fails how, with what error message? – harrymc – 2019-08-07T15:40:58.643
2Your issue booting into Windows has less to do with the fact you deleted the hibernation file, which when removed, would result in a normal boot and more to do with the reasons you had to run fsck to begin with. In other words, it's unlikely Windows would have been able to boot, even with the hibernation file. – Ramhound – 2019-08-07T15:49:18.250
As additional comment, "fixing" Windows disks via Linux has a good chance of ending with a disaster. I hope you took good backups of your data, but if not do so via Linux asap. – harrymc – 2019-08-07T16:13:30.450
If the drive was not cleanly unmounted and you forced an fsck this would also likely lead to filesystem corruption. Any solution is going to involve downloading their ISO again. At the very minimum you need to the media to run the windows repair utility. – Cliff Armstrong – 2019-08-07T17:03:45.417
Updated with error code – Kodeeo – 2019-08-07T17:18:49.747
Unfortunately disk was damaged and if I tried to power off it from windows to run chdsk at startup, it just stayed stuck on shutdown screen forever, if forced to shutdown with power button it would just restart windows without doing the chkdsk. Only solution I could think of was logging into my Linux Live and try to repair the disk from there. – Kodeeo – 2019-08-07T17:19:51.380
@Kodeeo: what's the download speed of your internet? The Windows 10 (x64) ISO is only 3.88 GB and takes ~7 minutes to download (provided your download speed is 90 Mbps or faster); I just tested it myself. It's much quicker to download the ISO than to spend hours trying to find a workaround. Personally, I would try a repair using the Windows 10 installer and if that didn't work, I would back up any data to another drive and do a clean install of Windows. It's a very quick process. If the SSD fails S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and/or has problems after you reinstall Windows 10 then I would replace it. – Mr Ethernet – 2019-08-07T19:24:01.693
I'm in Italy, not in a big city. My max download speed here is almost 5mbit/s, so it's pretty slow to download 4 or more GB – Kodeeo – 2019-08-07T20:28:36.633