Symptoms
OEMs and their customers encounter a prompt at boot time stating that Windows did not boot properly requesting whether to "boot Windows normally".
Cause
Embedded systems are frequently shut down unceremoniously and may be shut down with EWF enabled. Either scenario will not allow Windows to shutdown normally.
Resolution
For systems where either cause can occur frequently, the bcdedit utility build into the operating system can be used to prevent the prompt. Follow this procedure:
· Power up the machine and log in as local Administrator.
· Disable EWF, reboot, and log in again
· Run this command from a command prompt with administrator privileges:
bcdedit /set {current} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures
· Reboot the machine, and log in again
· Enable EWF, reboot, log in again
· Shutdown the machine normally (do not power off)
· Power up the machine and log in
· If you now power of the machine and reboot the message should not occur.
More Information
To Disable or Enable EWF on a drive, within a command prompt which has administrator privileges you would use a command like:
ewfmgr c: -disable
<or>
ewfmgr c: -enable
Additional commands can be found here.
