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How to fix Boot Configuration Data (BCD) for Windows 8 EFI system

I have Lenovo H530 Desktop which comes with Windows 8. I tried to install Ubuntu on the system and ended up messing something on my way. Current status is my system won't boot into either one of them and will just fall into GRUB shell on startup. I…
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How to install and boot Windows 7 on a pen drive / hard disk?

Is there a way to install a complete installation of Windows 7 on an external USB disk? I'm thinking about copying all files from an existing Windows installation, insert it on a booted Windows 7 machine and use BCDboot for the pen drive. Would this…
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Windows 8.1 Pro won't boot, Status: 0xc000000e

My computer has been working fine until yesterday. I turned it on and immediately after the motherboard logo, I got an error screen (light blue) saying, Your PC Needs to be Repaired with an error code Status: 0xc000000e. There was no file/driver…
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What is the equivalent command for bcdboot in bcdedit?

Making a new boot entry for Windows 7/8 (for dual boot) can apparently be done very easily with bcdboot. For example (see here): bcdboot D:\windows Now, reading through forums I find people using bcdedit for more complex booting, like booting from…
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How to repair Windows 7 boot loader on UEFI system?

On a Windows 7 Home Premium PC, I tried creating a Windows 8 VHD and booting to it. I created a VHD as my E: drive, installed Win8 into it with imagex, and then ran bcdboot E:\Windows. I've done this countless times before on various laptops, but…
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The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again

I use my PC to write software using Visual Studio. A few days ago my PC needed to restart because of Windows 10 updates. When the PC rebooted, it came back to the new blue screen. A site called Neo Smart appears to know what is going on, so I…
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How to turn Windows 10 partition into system partition and delete old system partition?

I have a hard disk containing the following partitions: A 500 MB system reserved partition. A 48 GB NTFS system partition containing an old, broken Windows 10 installation. Some unused Linux partitions that we can ignore. An active 77 GB NTFS…
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Windows 10 boot\bcd not found error 0x000000f

I made C drive as Active in disk management; later I rebooted the system it gave me error saying that "windows cannot find boot\bcd due to software\hardware changes,use windows disk to repair the system".. I tried to repair the system by using the…
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Clear all entries from bcdedit

I was wondering if anyone had a batch file that cleared ALL entries from BCDEdit. I plan on using bcdboot to insert the correct boot entry after it is cleared. Note: I am not authorized to use third party software.
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Unable to boot windows on cloned SSD, missing bcdedit file, c:\boot directory, etc

I am using HP Pavilion i7 6th gen machine. I bought and cloned an NVME m.2 SSD only to realise that my hardware supported just the SATA m.2 internally. I bought a NVME m.2 enclosure and cloned SSD using crucial cloning tool. The clone was reported…
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My windows installation is not identified in bootrec /fixboot

I need to explain what exactly happened and what solutions I've tried First of all my windows 10 build 1909 was working just fine and was fully updated. But windows update just constantly reminded me to update to 20H2 as support for my version soon…
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Can i do a file based backup of a Windows 10 system partition on a UEFI system?

I'm dualbooting Windows 10 and Linux Mint. Is it possible to do a file based backup of the Windows System Partition using Linux? UEFI is already entirely file based and not bound to the MBR of the disk. [edit: the UEFI boot process is independ of…
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"winload.efi" missing or contains errors? New windows install on SSD

Hi I've just installed a new SSD. I then made a windows boot usb from the media creation tool via Microsoft. I then installed Windows 10 to the ssd. Once I tried booting to the SSD I got the error The application or operating system couldn't be…
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Booting 2 Windows partitions on Single HDD; One via UEFI vs One via CSM BIOS - Possible?

Booting 2 Windows partitions on Single HDD; One via UEFI vs One via CSM BIOS - Possible? I'd like to be able to copy/ clone a Win 8.1 BIOS-MBR booting partition from a Hard drive 1 to the HDD 2 of a GPT formatted Win 8.1 UEFI booting drive. The…
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Repair BCD for a Windows Installer on Grub2 Portable Hard Drive

I have created a external hard drive contain GRUB2. This drive can boot the following: Windows 10 PE Ubuntu 16 Many ISO files. Now I want to include Windows installations. My problem is I want to put each version of windows in its own folder like…
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