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My windows 10 PC won't boot. I'm stuck in windows RE and the auto repair is failing. Now I'm hacking away at the terminal typing a bunch of commands from online support pages/forums.
I have tried;
bootrec /fixmbr
This executed ok, but did not fix my problem.
Then
bootrec /fixboot
but I got permission denied.
To work around this I used the diskpart utility to assign a letter (V
to the EFI partition volume. I then formatted it;
format V: /FS:FAT32
and tried this;
bcdboot C:\Windows /s V: /f UEFI
This command fails. I don't even have a C: with a windows folder (at least not visible in this command prompt). I have X:, so I tried this;
bcdboot X:\Windows /s V: /f UEFI
And I get the following errors;
BFSVC Error: Failed to set element application device
BFSVC Error: Failed to populate BCD store
Am I selecting the correct source for UEFI files? Is it normal to not have a "C:" in this situation? Or could this point to hard disk failure?
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I have tried;
bootrec /fixmbr
This executed ok, but did not fix my problem.
Then
bootrec /fixboot
but I got permission denied.
To work around this I used the diskpart utility to assign a letter (V
to the EFI partition volume. I then formatted it;format V: /FS:FAT32
and tried this;
bcdboot C:\Windows /s V: /f UEFI
This command fails. I don't even have a C: with a windows folder (at least not visible in this command prompt). I have X:, so I tried this;
bcdboot X:\Windows /s V: /f UEFI
And I get the following errors;
BFSVC Error: Failed to set element application device
BFSVC Error: Failed to populate BCD store
Am I selecting the correct source for UEFI files? Is it normal to not have a "C:" in this situation? Or could this point to hard disk failure?
Continue reading...