Just booted my computer and got this message at boot time: "EEPC has been corrupted"
Could not boot back into windows. When i booted an ubuntu livecd i saw that all the files were ok.
Searched the web high and low and very little information exists. I only found hints about this message related to a boot MBR replacement process done by Mcafee endpoint encryption tool (which encrypts your HD) that encounters an error while upgrading from some old version to a new one because of not having enough boot "low" memory for its replacement MBR code. The solutions point you to some wintech/safetech bootable CD that requires some daily code to run that can solve it - obviously i didn't go down that path as the links to those bootable CD iso were very untrustworthy.
I don't have mcafee installed.
I tried to create a windows 10 rescue disk (start-> create rescue disk) and boot from there and fix it but it didn't work.
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After several days i managed to solve this.
I understand this boot memory thing is probably related to the type of boot bios process so i tried to change in the bios the setting that tell BIOS how to boot.
My old setting was on Legacy and UEFI boot process. I assumed the new UEFI will probably have more memory for what the bootloader was trying to do so i changed it to "UEFI only" - it worked and everything booted fine.
After booting up windows (and creating a recovery usb drive) i went through event logs to try and see what caused this and the only clues led to windows defender (as i said before i do not have mcafee).
These are messages from the event log from the last time the computer was ok before the error:
The start type of the Windows Defender Antivirus Boot Driver service was changed from demand start to boot start.
The start type of the Windows Defender Antivirus Mini-Filter Driver service was changed from demand start to boot start.
The start type of the Windows Defender Antivirus Service service was changed from demand start to auto start.
DCOM got error "1115" attempting to start the service wuauserv with arguments "Unavailable" in order to run the server: {E60687F7-01A1-40AA-86AC-DB1CBF673334}
I have no idea what windows defender tried to do with the MBR and bootloader but i am happy this was solved easily.
