Windows 11 26200.9457 can only boot into Safe Mode after a restart, and error "Your device ran into a problem and couldn't be repaired." + 0x800f0915

ItsAlex said:

Hello everyone,

I recently restarted my pc with windows 11 pro, and it suddenly popped up with a repair screen that fails after a minute or two and says "Your device ran into a problem and couldn't be repaired.". After that I can access the recovery screen, and from there I can boot info Safe Mode just fine.
After that, I've tried dozens of things to try to make my pc boot normally again. I've tried resetting my bios, updating drivers in device manager, disabling devices and trying to boot again, uninstalling GPU drivers with DDU, disabling all except microsoft services and trying to "Clean Boot", disabling all startup apps, running "sfc /scannow" where the first time it said it repaired corrupted files but it didn't help and I've tried chkdsk multiple times to no help.

The final thing I've tried multiple times, is "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ", but it returns with error "0x800f0915" aka "The repair content could not be found anywhere.". I've tried multiple ways to get dism /restorehealth to work, including downloading a windows 11 ISO of my exact windows version (Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.9457) and using that to run dism, but I still get error "0x800f0915". I've heard from many websites that I can use windows update to help with my issue and to get the newest dism or to use windows update to fix my issue outright, but since I can only boot into safe mode, I can't do that.

I am at a loss, and been at this for hours and hours on seperate days. I would vastly prefer to not reset my pc, since I have configured everything in the exact way I like. Thankfully, there has been no data loss as well. I believe, that since I can still boot into safe mode (I am writing this message from safe mode on that pc), that this can be repaired somehow.

Can anyone help?

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ItsAlex said:

Hello everyone,

I recently restarted my pc with windows 11 pro, and it suddenly popped up with a repair screen that fails after a minute or two and says "Your device ran into a problem and couldn't be repaired.". After that I can access the recovery screen, and from there I can boot info Safe Mode just fine.
After that, I've tried dozens of things to try to make my pc boot normally again. I've tried resetting my bios, updating drivers in device manager, disabling devices and trying to boot again, uninstalling GPU drivers with DDU, disabling all except microsoft services and trying to "Clean Boot", disabling all startup apps, running "sfc /scannow" where the first time it said it repaired corrupted files but it didn't help and I've tried chkdsk multiple times to no help.

The final thing I've tried multiple times, is "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ", but it returns with error "0x800f0915" aka "The repair content could not be found anywhere.". I've tried multiple ways to get dism /restorehealth to work, including downloading a windows 11 ISO of my exact windows version (Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.9457) and using that to run dism, but I still get error "0x800f0915". I've heard from many websites that I can use windows update to help with my issue and to get the newest dism or to use windows update to fix my issue outright, but since I can only boot into safe mode, I can't do that.

I am at a loss, and been at this for hours and hours on seperate days. I would vastly prefer to not reset my pc, since I have configured everything in the exact way I like. Thankfully, there has been no data loss as well. I believe, that since I can still boot into safe mode (I am writing this message from safe mode on that pc), that this can be repaired somehow.

Can anyone help?

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