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I messed up my bootloaders bad. (BCDboot help)
I’ve got an old Acer AspireX running windows 10. Tuesday night, I tried to install the update for 21H2 and for whatever reason, it broke something with my boot files, causing windows to get stuck in the “automatic startup repair” loop. Would run diagnostics then stay on “attempting to repair your PC” indefinitely.
Thought I could fix it myself so I booted into recovery mode and started trying some solutions I could find online.
ran chkdsk- nothin
ran sfc /scannow - nothin
Finally came across some solutions regarding my BCD. Without reading the fine print, I ran
And now I’m getting 0xc0000001 and 0xc0000098 blue screens immediately after startup. The xc98 screen directs to the file "\BCD" but that file doesn't even exist in my C: root or Windows directory (tried doing "ren BCD BCD.old" so I could rebuild but it said there was no such file in either directory, only in \Windows\Boot).Code:bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
After getting a slightly better understanding of what that command actually does, i then started trying to fix THAT. Tried rebuilding my bcd multiple times in many different ways.
At some point along the way, i followed another solution guide that involved running BCDboot on another disk volume (it was one of the unnamed FAT32 volumes but was supposedly a container for some boot files. As you can tell, this is where I am completely in the realm of “**** am i doing”)
I boot my computer now and press F12 to see the boot device list and see 3 duplicate boot managers, none of which work.
SOS.
FAQ:
“did you try restoring to a backup point?” Yes. When i go through the advanced recovery options to select a restore point, there is only 1 available and windows got stuck on the “restoring files” step (left it for over 2 hours)
“do you have a bootable installation media” yes, I have a USB, fully accessible but has a 1709 build which apparently blocks me from running bootrec /fixboot (throws a “access is denied” error)
“can you reinstall windows” yes, I have been able to access the restore option but I am trying to avoid it still because i have a lot of programs for work on this computer that will suck to reinstall
Any help is greatly appreciated!