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title: Windows boot issues troubleshooting
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description: Learn to troubleshoot when Windows can't boot. This article includes advanced troubleshooting techniques intended for use by support agents and IT professionals.
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ms.date: 01/15/2025
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ms.date: 04/28/2025
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manager: dcscontentpm
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ms.topic: troubleshooting
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| 3 | Windows OS Loader | %SystemRoot%\system32\winload.exe | %SystemRoot%\system32\winload.efi |
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| 4 | Windows NT OS Kernel | %SystemRoot%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe | |
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1. PreBoot: The PC's firmware initiates a power-on self test (POST) and loads firmware settings. This pre-boot process ends when a valid system disk is detected. Firmware reads the master boot record (MBR), and then starts Windows Boot Manager.
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1. PreBoot: The PC's firmware initiates a power-on self test (POST) and loads firmware settings. This pre-boot process ends when a valid system disk is detected. In the case of a BIOS boot, the firmware loads the master boot record (MBR) into memory, and then starts Windows Boot Manager. In the case of a UEFI boot, the firmware loads and starts the Windows Boot Manager EFI executable.
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2. Windows Boot Manager: Windows Boot Manager finds and starts the Windows loader (Winload.exe) on the Windows boot partition.
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3. Windows operating system loader: Essential drivers required to start the Windows kernel are loaded and the kernel starts to run.
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4. Windows NT OS Kernel: The kernel loads into memory the system registry hive and other drivers that are marked as BOOT_START.

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