Uninstalled some Drivers and now cant boot into Windows 10 Pro

So I had Windows 10 Pro Version 1903 (OS Build 18362.592) installed on a ssd drive on my laptop. The laptop screen died. I pulled the ssd out of the laptop and stuck it in another laptop. It ran fine but wouldnt recognize the bluetooth. I attempted to get bluetooth working and in doing so went into the Device Manager and started uninstalling all the old drivers for the Previous Laptop as well as the current laptops Network Card. Installed Updates as well. Shutdown the PC and upon booting it proceeded to set the BIOS to default. As soon as I tried to boot into Windows, it failed. It gives me error 0xc0000001 upon trying to boot currently. Attempting to try again does nothing, reboots to the same screen with the same options. Tried to Press F1 to enter Recovery Environment causes the laptop to reboot and I get a new error 0xc000000e. I have created a new USB bootable drive using the Windows 10 Media Creator Tool from Microsoft to be able to boot into the recovery Environment. I have attempted to fix the OS using Startup Repair and it just says "Startup Repair couldn't repair your pc." Attempting System Restore fails and says it cant find a Windows OS to restore. Command Prompt opens just fine. I have attempted a couple other guides for repairing the bootrec and some commands work, others say access is denied. Im pretty confident that this problem is regarding the boot record.

When i runt he diskpart tool. I list Disk, and it shows Disk 0 and Disk 1, both say Status: Online, one is 232Gb(this should be my System Disk) Disk 1 is 28GB(this should be empty space set asside for SSD longevity(Samsung)) Oddly enough both are saying they have 0 B Free, Dyn is blank for both and for GPT it has an Asterisk on Disk 0 but not Disk 1.

When I select Disk 0, I "list vol" and it shows:
Volume 0 (Drive Letter: D)this is my Dvd Drive
Volume 1(No Drive Letter)(Recovery)(NTFS)(Partition)(529 MB)(Healthy)(Blank space for Info)
Volume 2(No Drive Letter)(No Label)(Fat32)(Partition)(100MB)(Healthy)(Hidden)
Volume 3(Not Drive Letter)(No Label)(NTFS)(Partition)(232 GB)(Healthy)(Hidden)
Volume 4(Drive Letter: C) (ESD-USB)(Fat32)(Removeable)(28GB)(Healthy)(Blank Space for Info)

Volume 0 is my Disc Drive, Volume 4 is the Bootable USB Drive with Windows 10 Installation Media that I am using to access the Recovery Tools that this info is coming from. I know Volume 1,2,3 are part of WIndows. I know that my Windows 10 installation is on Volume 3, I have no clue what Volume 1 and 2 are. I believe that Volume 3 should have a drive letter and should not be hidden.

I have attempted a few guides online about fixing the bootrec, none of which have worked. If someone can walk me through the proper way to get my system running again without formatting and starting from scratch I would appreciate it.

Hello xenosaga01, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Can you use System Restore tool?

Do you have an external monitor that you can connect to the laptop?
If you you do, see if the SSD will boot from the laptop.

What are the status of the important files?
a) backed up files
b) backed up image
c) no backed up files or images

These are options:
a) troubleshoot
b) custom install
c) clean install

A custom install should save files.
Drivers and applications need to be reinstalled.

FreeBooter said:

Hello xenosaga01, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Can you use System Restore tool?

I already said I tried that.. it doesnt work.

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zbook said:

Do you have an external monitor that you can connect to the laptop?
If you you do, see if the SSD will boot from the laptop.

What are the status of the important files?
a) backed up files
b) backed up image
c) no backed up files or images

These are options:
a) troubleshoot
b) custom install
c) clean install

A custom install should save files.
Drivers and applications need to be reinstalled.

Files are backed up. But I would like to fix this without reinstalling. Im not sure If I would be able to even reinstall because the original install was an OEM install and I used a Windows 10 System Builder Key to Upgrade which as I understand is tied to one motherboard and cant be re-entered.

I attempted a few more repairs. I unplugged the ssd and put it in an external enclosure. Plugged it into my other laptop via usb and then used a partition tool to unhide the system drive partition thinking maybe if that attribute were removed it could be recognized by the uefi bootloader. It didnt recognize it. So back onto the USB recovery tool I went and played around int the diskpart tool again.
I assiged a drive letter to the system partition, which strangely still says its hidden.
I also assigned a drive letter to the 100MB Fat32 partition. With both of those set, I attempted to fixmbr on both which completed successfully. I also tried to fixboot. which both resulted in access denied errors. I also tried to use "bootrec /rebuildbcd which scanned all disks for os installations and found 0 windows installations even when I chose to scan in each of those volume directories. I must be missing something here. I examined the system drive on the other Laptop. All my files are still there. The Installation of Windows 10 is there.

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dalchina said:

Assuming there's nothing special about your digital entitlement recorded on MS's servers, and that everything's legitimate, a clean install should activate automatically- no key to enter. Changing drives should not be an issue- MOBO a different matter.

Presumably you have not been in the habit of routinely using disk imaging... so often recommended here so when you get into a mess, you have a chance of recovery - even to a new PC- by restoring a recent disk image. E.g Macrium reflect (free and paid).

Until the screen is permanently repaired on that original laptop, I cant just reinstall on the second laptop. Since the second laptop only came with WIndows 8. Would I even be able to use the Clean Boot Option?

Edit: actually scratch that. I dont even have the option to fix it with a clean boot anymore.

also when I tried the "bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup" command I got an error that said " The requested system device cannot be identified due to multiple indistinguishable devices potentially matching the identification criteria." If this points to anything helpful

This is a Microsoft link for major hardware change (motherboard):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ardware-change

This is a link for custom install: (files are saved, drivers and applications need to be reinstalled)
Custom Install Windows 10

This is a link on clean install:
Clean Install Windows 10


Custom install will likely be the most efficient method.


Find a camera or smartphone camera to take pictures and post images into the thread.

Create a bootable Wndows 10 iso and open command prompt.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
Download Windows 10 ISO File
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10


Type these commands.
(Comments will be in parenthesis)

notepad
(This should open notepad where you can copy and paste command prompt commands and results)
(Then save notepad to a flash drive that can be moved to a working computer and post into the thread)

(When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread)

(For any problems upload images)

Take Screenshot in Windows 10
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...re-screenshots
How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files at Ten Forums

Code:

bcdedit /enum all
bcdedit | find "osdevice"
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par

(record the commands and results before typing exit)
exit

Code:

bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

More to follow.
FreeBooter may continue the troubleshooting steps.

zbook said:

This is a Microsoft link for major hardware change (motherboard):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ardware-change

This is a link for custom install: (files are saved, drivers and applications need to be reinstalled)
Custom Install Windows 10

This is a link on clean install:
Clean Install Windows 10


Custom install will likely be the most efficient method.


Find a camera or smartphone camera to take pictures and post images into the thread.

Create a bootable Wndows 10 iso and open command prompt.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
Download Windows 10 ISO File
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10


Type these commands.
(Comments will be in parenthesis)

notepad
(This should open notepad where you can copy and paste command prompt commands and results)
(Then save notepad to a flash drive that can be moved to a working computer and post into the thread)

(When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread)

(For any problems upload images)

Take Screenshot in Windows 10
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...re-screenshots
How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files at Ten Forums

Code:

bcdedit /enum all
bcdedit | find "osdevice"
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par

(record the commands and results before typing exit)
exit

Code:

bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

More to follow.
FreeBooter may continue the troubleshooting steps.

interestingly when i went into diskpart and sel dis 0 then enter det dis
it says that my samsung ssd type is Raid......something must have gotten royally messed up... Thank you for the advice though.