How To Fix Windows Blue Screen 'Recovery - Your PC/Device needs to be repaired'

How To Fix Windows Blue Screen "Recovery - Your PC/Device needs to be repaired"

Jeff Baker here with Sea Breeze Computers. If all of a sudden when you turn on your Windows computer you get the Blue screen that says, "Recovery - Your PC needs to be repaired". Here are some steps that will hopefully help you fix the problem.

0:34 1. Windows Installation Media

1:37 2. Boot to the Windows Installation Media

5:02 3. Command Prompt

Once the Windows Installation Media starts loading you should get to the Windows setup screen where it asks for the "Language to install" and the "Keyboard or input method". Press Shift+F10 on your keyboard at the same time to enter command prompt.

5:29 4. Backup Important Files

At this point you may or may not want to backup important files.

7:00 5. Check hard drive for errors

First type bcdedit and press enter. Notice the drive letter at "osdevice" and "partition". It is usually C: or D: but it could be another letter. Write this letter down as your OS drive letter.

Now type: chkdsk C: /R and press enter. Replace C with D or whatever your OS drive letter is.
The scan for errors may take a few hours. So you will have to wait. When it is finished then take notice of how many bad sectors there are. If there are any bad sectors then you will need to purchase a new hard drive and reinstall Windows on to it. If there are 0 bad sectors then that is a good sign. Try restarting the computer and see if Windows starts normally.

8:22 6. Repair Boot Data

If Windows still does not start normally then you will need to boot the Windows Installation Media again and try the following commands at command prompt:

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot

Close the command prompt and try to restart the computer.

9:00 7. Rebuild Boot Configuration Data

If Windows still does not start normally then you may want to try this command at command prompt:

bootrec /rebuildbcd

and press enter. If you see the message "Total identified Windows installations: 1" then press Y to Add installation to boot list. Restart the computer and see if Windows starts normally.

9:36 8. Repair Boot Data with System Partition

If Windows still does not start normally then you can try to repair the Boot Data with the system partition. At the command prompt type: bcdedit and press enter. Notice the drive letter at "osdevice" and "partition". It is usually C: or D: but it could be another letter. Write this letter down as your OS drive letter. Also take note of "systemroot". It will probably be \Windows

So if you put it together then your OS drive letter and system root are something like:
C:\Windows

At the command prompt type: diskpart and press Enter.

Then type list volume and press enter. Take note of the "System" or "System Reserved" partition. Write down the Volume number. In the example here it is Volume 3.
Type: select volume 3 and press enter. Replace 3 with your "System" volume.
Then type: assign letter=Z and press enter.
Type exit and press enter.
Now type:
bcdboot C:\windows /s Z: /f ALL

Remember to replace C:\Windows with the OS drive letter and systemroot that you wrote down earlier. Press Enter.

Restart your computer and see if Windows starts normally. If it does not then try this command in command prompt:

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

Remember to replace C:\Windows with the OS drive letter and systemroot that you wrote down earlier. Press Enter.

Restart your computer. Hopefully one of these steps worked and your computer will be able to start Windows normally without the blue screen error message. If none of these steps work then you may need to backup any important files and reinstall Windows. Or you may need to get help from a computer technician.

[jeffsbaker]

FAQ - Answers to Frequently Asked Questions for this video can be found at:

[tso]

I like how the comments are from 2 days ago, good thing im not the only one who's experiencing this right now.

[dineomoloi]

I can’t believe I was able to backup my important files by your “notepad” . Thank you

[PrabiFamily]

Step 8 worked for me. Thank you.

Those of you wondering...all the commands hes advising you to type...example x:\ you dont change it to the local disk letter (C)

[bbvibes]

LIFE SAVER, ayeee make sure u order a USB nd follow the steps !!!! This dude ain’t cappin

[thaimcgrathmusic]

Step 8 worked for me! You saved me countless hours of reinstallation! Thanks so much! ❤❤

[xXavorx]

Just when I lost all hope... your vid came along and fixed my problem; I followed all the steps and it wasn't until I reached step 8 that I finally got windows to load, bless your soul man

[MCMilitaryForce]

Thanks, step 8 fixed the problem. Watched tutorials all night and day

[XiaoBuu]

Holy crap thank you. The cmd commands worked for me. I was panicking because I had to submit an assignment for school. Thank you.

[_indeey]

Thank you so much!!! I was so frustrated when i saw the blue screen and almost cried bc i have so many works that needed to be done asap. My laptop can be started normally again after i've done the disk check! Thankfully it was 0kb in bad sectors so when i restarted the laptop again, it came back naturally as if nothing happened😭 I'm so happy that I didn't have to go to step 6 onwards bc step 5 solved all the problems. Once again, thank you so much, God bless you and your family!

[akiyoshi_fun]

The first command in Step 8 fixed the problem for me. Thank you very much! Can't lie I was feeling very frustrated earlier but now I'm feeling super refreshed.

[monishmeher]

Dude this video is such a life saver hope you and your family are blessed

[nicksconvenience]

brilliant video, took me over 24 hours to fix my surface pro after booting issues and after 100s of attempts to fix from loading safe mode, saving files, creation tool not wanting to know, command prompt having to repeat above steps in video numerous times - it finally happened.

[nyamwasapraise]

Bro you made it happen... step 8 is a life saver🙏🏼Definitely deserve my subscription 🥂

[cili]

Thanks for in-depth instructions, it ended up working by step 7 (rebuild boot data). And I love the notepad idea of backing up data instead of doing it all manually via command prompt. Thanks very much.

[khebbymooreverdaluza]

Play it on 1.5 speed, you'll thank me later

[ja]

Thank you! This worked. I set my computer to update overnight and then it wouldn't boot back up the next day. Since my computer didn't fully update overnight, my boot data was erased. Repairing the bootdata with the system partition worked.

[peterclaver]

If there's anyone watching this: It worked for me.

I followed step 8.

[johncicale]

Fantastic. Advice from all others did not work, but your clear, step by step instructions, including mentioning where there are spaces in the commands was so helpful. I can now dual boot and not have to use the extremely limiting Windows 11.

[cheeye]

thank you for saving my life… I used step 8 and my pc starts even faster than before…