SBS 2008 Unbootable after partition resize – winload.exe; Status: 0xc0000225; Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
by Carl Farrington on Jan.18, 2009, under Computer Stuff, Tips & Tricks
The server is all done. One last thing to do – resize that Dell OS partition now that we have the Data partition on a separate 500gb RAID1.
Being an old fashioned person (read: not a Vista user, and new to SBS 2008), I didn’t think to use Disk Management to do the resize. I used Acronis Disk Director. This resulted in the system not booting, with the above error message.
I was at a bit of a loss for what to do. I ran chkdsk from an NTFS bootdisk and this made no difference. Obviously there is no boot.ini any more, and to make matters worse, the Dell supplied SBS 2008 DVDs are non-bootable, so I was a bit stuck.
Whilst waiting the 2hrs for the SBS 2008 DVD ISO to download from Microsoft.com, I thought I’d try out a Vista disk and see if that would repair the bootmgr. It did and now all is well.
The problem is apparently caused by the UUID of the partition changing, leaving the bootmgr unable to find it, as per this article.
June 5th, 2009 on 3:21 am
Excellent. I imaged a SBS 2008 drive with Acronis True Image and selected proportional for resizing instead of as-is. I got the same stop error on bootup but using a Vista Ultimate x64 disc corrected the issue.
Thanks!
August 11th, 2009 on 8:55 pm
We imaged an HP ProLiant ML150 G5 server and restored it to an HP ProLiant ML150 G6, got the same error and fixed it using Vista Business SP1 x64 Disc.
Imaging SW – Storage Craft Shadow Protect
Server OS – Server 2008 Std x64
Many Thanks…
January 7th, 2010 on 3:25 pm
You could try to use Server 2008 installation CD to fix the proglem.
An instruction about how to correctly extend 2008 partition to avoid unbootable at: http://www.extend-partition.com/resize-windows-server-2008-partition.html