Hi,
I have a windows 8.1 machine doing an infinite automatic repair loop. I am able to get into the recovery environment and the disk seems fine. Have been able to back the entire disk up externally both via robocopy and disk image and am now trying to troubleshoot the root cause of the infinite startup loop.
When I disable automatic recovery using bcdedit, I get a message on boot saying '0xc000000f Windows failed to load because the NLS data is missing, or corrupt.'
I then decided to try to use a system restore. The latest system restore checkpoint causes crashes the system restore utility. The other checkpoints return system restore errors with 0x80070571.
All signs point to a disk corruption of some sort, but chkdsk /f runs fine with no errors as mentioned the full disk was able to be backed up with no problems.
I then attempted to restore any corrupted files with sfc /scannow hoping to get around the nls files missing issue. sfc /scannow from the windows recovery environment using offbootdir and offwindir errors with 'resource protection could not complete requested operation'. Nothing I am able to do seems to cause sfc to run successfully.
There are no logs within CBS at all that describe what is erroring, either within the root windows partition or the recovery partition.
I am trying to avoid reformat if possible but I can't seem to come up with any other ideas to try.
[edit] Also tried running sfcfix but receive a subsystem not present error from the 8.1 recovery environment
Thanks!
