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DMWillms
Hello everyone, thank you in advance for reading:
I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre which came with Win10 installed on an SSD, with a HDD for documents.
At some far removed time in the past, I started getting the following error:
I found a solution that seemed to work:
When I would do that, the computer would reboot and/or start just fine. For a time. At least until Windows Update ran.
Then the BCD error would be thrown again.
Now that routine doesn't seem to work any longer.
After research, I found this page:
Advanced troubleshooting for Windows boot problems - Windows Client Management
I started working through the proposed steps.
I have tried the StartUp repair tool, with no change.
If I run scanos at the command prompt, there are 0 Windows installations found.
If I try to export and rebuild the BCD, I have no C:\boot directory to put the BCD in. I was tempted just to mdir this subdirectory and resume the procedure, but then I noticed something peculiar.
After looking a little more closely, I see that my SSD Windows disk is drive D: in the command prompt, but shows up as C: inside File Explorer in Windows. (D: has no \boot subdirectory either, just FYI). My documents HDD is drive C: in the command prompt, but shows as E: in File Explorer in Windows.
In DiskPart, I see this:
Disk ### Status. Size. Free. Dyn. Gpt
Disk 0. Online. 931GB. 219GB *
Disk 1 Online 238GB. 0GB. *
Disk 1
Partition ### Type. Size Offset
Partition 1 System 260 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 261 MB
Partition 3 Primary 237 MB 277 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 1000 MB 237 GB
Disk 0
Partition ### Type. Size Offset
Partition 1 Reserved 128 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 711 GB 129 MB
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C DavesDocs NTFS Partition 711 GB Healthy
Volume 2 D Windows NTFS Partition 237 GB Healthy
Volume 3 WinRE_DRV NTFS Partition 1000 MB Healthy
Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 260 MB Healthy Hidden
I am wary of continuing because the mismatch between the Windows drive (D: in command prompt, C: in Windows), and the fact that the documents drive is apparently addressed as C: during the boot procedure seems like a real good reason that the OS cannot be found.
Can anyone advise on my next steps towards resolving this?
Thanks.
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I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre which came with Win10 installed on an SSD, with a HDD for documents.
At some far removed time in the past, I started getting the following error:
Boot Configuration Data file doesn't contain valid information for an operating system
File: /BCD
Error Code: 0x0000098
I found a solution that seemed to work:
boot to command prompt, run bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, and then bootrec /rebuildbcd
When I would do that, the computer would reboot and/or start just fine. For a time. At least until Windows Update ran.
Then the BCD error would be thrown again.
Now that routine doesn't seem to work any longer.
After research, I found this page:
Advanced troubleshooting for Windows boot problems - Windows Client Management
I started working through the proposed steps.
I have tried the StartUp repair tool, with no change.
If I run scanos at the command prompt, there are 0 Windows installations found.
If I try to export and rebuild the BCD, I have no C:\boot directory to put the BCD in. I was tempted just to mdir this subdirectory and resume the procedure, but then I noticed something peculiar.
After looking a little more closely, I see that my SSD Windows disk is drive D: in the command prompt, but shows up as C: inside File Explorer in Windows. (D: has no \boot subdirectory either, just FYI). My documents HDD is drive C: in the command prompt, but shows as E: in File Explorer in Windows.
In DiskPart, I see this:
Disk ### Status. Size. Free. Dyn. Gpt
Disk 0. Online. 931GB. 219GB *
Disk 1 Online 238GB. 0GB. *
Disk 1
Partition ### Type. Size Offset
Partition 1 System 260 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 261 MB
Partition 3 Primary 237 MB 277 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 1000 MB 237 GB
Disk 0
Partition ### Type. Size Offset
Partition 1 Reserved 128 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 711 GB 129 MB
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C DavesDocs NTFS Partition 711 GB Healthy
Volume 2 D Windows NTFS Partition 237 GB Healthy
Volume 3 WinRE_DRV NTFS Partition 1000 MB Healthy
Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 260 MB Healthy Hidden
I am wary of continuing because the mismatch between the Windows drive (D: in command prompt, C: in Windows), and the fact that the documents drive is apparently addressed as C: during the boot procedure seems like a real good reason that the OS cannot be found.
Can anyone advise on my next steps towards resolving this?
Thanks.
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