I got this error message after cloning a 1TB hard drive to a 256GB SSD.
Recovery Error code 0xc000000e, Your PC needs to be repaired, indicates an incorrect drive configuration or a possible hardware failure, and may be accompanied by different error messages like:
- A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed
- Required device is inaccessible
- The selected entry could not be loaded
- The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt
- The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
If you try the usual fixes but keep getting an “access is denied” error then try the following.
- Boot from your Windows 10 Installation Media
- Select Repair Your Computer
- Select Troubleshoot
- Choose Command Prompt
- Type diskpart and hit enter
- list disk & enter (Note which disk is your Boot disk mine is Disk 0)
- sel disk 0 & enter
- list vol & enter (Note which volume is the EFI partition mine was 3)
- sel vol 3 & enter
- assign letter=v: & enter
- then exit & enter
- v: & enter
- [To ensure that you have actually selected your EFI partition, type in dir /a /b /s v: you should see v:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ … listings]
- After you have assigned a drive letter with Diskpart to your EFI partition, you can now format that partition
- format v: /FS:FAT32 & enter [FS = File System]
- Finally bcdboot c:\windows /s v: /f UEFI & enter
You should now be able to boot