But is it necessary?

You get an information message saying that

Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file.

This can be done normally by pressing theF8key.

You will find different options.

If you have a Windows installation disk, insert the disk and start your gear.

Click Repair your system, and then choose a recovery tool.

Otherwise, to start Windows you’ve got the option to investigate further.

Temporarily disable driver signature enforcement.

File: \Windows\System32\winload.exeStatus: 0xc0000428Info: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file.

you’re able to see the causes and solutions for this problem, as you continue reading.

whenever I start my PC (upgraded to win 8.1) I reach the windows symbol.

Then I come into a blue screen with an fault signal.

Your PC needs to be repaired.

Also it shows an error code: 0xc0000428.

if you dont have any installation media , contact your system administrator, or pc manufacture.

When I follow the instructions in other forums it doesnt worked.

I already tried the automatically repair of my originally win 8 disk.

ButWindows 7 or Vistaboot loader is being used which has not been updated to the new version.

Then error 0xc0000428 occurs.

Then you installed Windows 10.

This is a multi-boot system.

But theboot loaderis still the old one.

So the new OS cannot detect the old BOOTMGR.

This will halt the boot process.

It is a software error.

The new Creators or October update will still being using the old version of theBOOTMGR.

This conflict can also cause this error.

How to Fix 0xc0000428 on Windows 10

There are several ways to fix this problem.

First you’ve got the option to rebuild your boot manager using the following commands.

Enter each command and you should get a successfully verified message.

Then you’ve got the option to restart the computer.

If the above commands fail saying that your OS partition is denied access, then enter the following command.

Where C:\Windows is your Windows installation folder and D:\ is your active boot partition.

This is because, in most of the cases, BOOTMGR is correctly configured.

Then you gotta only apply the last command.

Then it’s possible for you to enter any boot commands to restore your boot files.

This causes less problems.

Always make the boot drive partition as the first disk to load using BIOS options.

If you have multiple drives on your boot disk, confirm the first partition is where the BOOTMGR resides.

For such cases, you might use a software called EasyBCD which creates the required boot files very easily.

You have to apply a few commands to implement this solution.

e. start your setup and take a stab at boot in Windows normally.

Then you’re free to open Command Prompt and throw in the following commands one by one.

This will make the OS partition active.

This is useful in the following 4 ways.

Add boot files to a PC after applying a new Windows image2.

Repair the system partition4.

Set up or repair the boot menu on a dual-boot PC.

BIOS:

Then apply the following command.

It works with all Windows OS.

Note: It may not work with Windows and Linux as a dual-boot scenario.

This is because it is a DOS command line tool, which will work with Windows OS only.

Then using EasyBCD, you’ve got the option to later add the other OS.

I faced problems trying to implement the Windows 7 or Vista boot loader.

I earlier faced a similar issue with error code0xc0000098regarding booting problem and resolved it using the bboot command.

In that case the boot error solution was quick to solve.

To fix the issue this time, I searched Google for answers.

Solution

The fix that I applied was totally a different one compared to the earlier solutions.

I thank NeoSmart Technologies for providing thecommand line editor commandsin an easy manner.

This solution is especially for Windows 8 or 8.1 users.

For Windows 7 or Vista, you may need to try little different commands.

The process involved applying commands in thecommand prompt Windowin a 5-stage process.

If you are having a dual boot system, find out which partition is the active one.

Stage 4:

Then we need to assign the rig partition and set some path changes.

Stage 5:

Finally, we need to tell the bootmgr bootloader to list the entry.

My Experience in a Few Words …

I faced this issue, when I re-wrote the boot configuration data on my SSD disk.

But this happened to be DISK 2 according to the disk management tool.

I had 4 OS installed in my system.

So I reverted the changes.

I did not even execute any commands.

It is always better to have a dual-boot system.