I, for one, do appreciate you showing how to fix error videos, Brian. For those of us who work on either other people's computers or our computer, there's bound to be something we come across where our knowledge leads us to come online looking for the solution and when someone has a video tutorial instructing us on how to solve the issue, we should be so thankful to them.
@@Britec09 I know this off topic, but the dell optiplex 745 I installed windows 11 on if you remember from about a year ago now, I had to junk because ddr2 @8gb was having major issues lol, so I'm guessing their going after not only single core processor they going after ram as well for their next slave payment rofl, nothing I did improved so just a hint too those that like doing what they say can't be done, keep up the great work teacher ps I have about 30 or so ddr2 ram
Extremely useful Brian. I had to re-install from scratch a few months ago for the same problem. Now I know what to do for the next time.🙂. Keep them coming, you're the only one out there that I know of who produces little gems like these.
This was the single best explained video for restoring UEFI boot. I've watched so many videos and read so many articles that explain how to repair using bootrec or bcdboot commands that never seem to work. It seems so much easier to simply wipe the EFI drive and replace it with a fresh one rather than try to fix it. Well done on this video and keep up the great content!
You’re such a homie for making this tutorial, you have no idea how much of a headache/stress/anxiety that you prevented by making this video… thank you
Thank you Brian - this fix it video is very useful and I for one are happy view this type of content along with your explanations, hopefully you will continue to present more fix it videos.
GREAT VIDEO. A few months ago I bought a 2TB SP SSD Drive. I installed the cloning software that came with it and I could not boot from anything. When I finally got in touch with them, the woman at tech support started talking me through a whole convoluted procedure, this one. It's exactly what she had me do and it worked. I wish I wrote it down to have in the future, but now, you made a video. Great work. In searching, a lot of people had the same problem with the software.
Thanks mate you're instructions were precise and to the point.... however for people working on some older version of diskpart might run into the issue -An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive. Volume label is simply the name of the drive you're trying to format, so in this case it will be SYSTEM.
For me if it's been 2 years I just install a clean install of windows. For the average user this is the best way I think. If you are a up to date on all this stuff like you are Brian it worth it. I have tried fixing stuff like this years ago and it was always something else messing up. I got pissed did a clean install of windows problem over if you back up stuff on your computer on a usb that you care about. If you don't back up once in awhile a clean install of windows you loose everything if you only have 1 puter. I have 4 so I can always use that and put it on a usb stick. Am a big desktop shortcut person so what I use most the time is on my desktop and just a click away.
Thanks Brian. Diskpart is a nice utility, and it's a good idea to have bootable media on hand if you're working with only one PC. I'm a nerd, so this type of content is what I crave. The more informative, the better. I also enjoy content that has a "casual" feel.
You are an absolute GENIUS. I had tried everything under the sun.. I mean EVERYTHING to fix this issue. I consider myself VERY computer savvy, but never in a million years could I have come up with this fix. I simply cloned one disk to another, then neither worked. After hours of trying and failing to figure out why they wouldn't boot, I decided youtube would be my savior. You sir, are my savior. I applied the fix to both and they are both working perfectly. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this video. I truly appreciate it. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much for this straightforward video! I ran into a problem when I got to the part of formatting I got a message that the volume is write-protected. Format failed. Is there anything I can do? TIA!
You saved me!!! I didnt even have the backup you explained in the beginning I just did what you did in CMD and everything is restored to normal, thank you! Best tutorial, now I can start over and do things right! 🙏🙏👍👍🇸🇪
1. " I didn't even have the backup you explained in the beginning. I just did what you did in CMD and everything is restored to normal". 2. "Now I can start over and do things right" Sir, I am a bit confused about the two statements. Please, WITHOUT THE BACKUP, could you tell me the exact final result you got - i.e. all your files, installed programs, data/information just as before the problem occurred? I having the problem addressed in the video, so my PC needs repairs. But I do not having the backup as said, and also can't afford to lose any of my files, programs, data/information, hence reaching out to you before I perform the CMD. Thank you.
I had a similiar issue with my UEFI Windows 11 Intel PC so I followed this video and now my Keyboard doesn't work and the PC only boots up to the Recover (Blue Screen) and I can't select any options or boot into safemode or Bios anymore :(
You saved my PC! Not sure how I got into such a mess but was cloning my drive to a larger one and I got the screen that you described, Tried quite a few other solutions but yours was clearly presented and worked first time. I will now make a backup just in case it happens again! Many thanks.
Brian, appreciate this information. Only thing not clear -- when would you simply import the backup BCD file rather than formatting and creating the entire drive with bcdboot. IOW, when the PC won't boot due to corrupted UEFI is it just a corrupted BCD file or is it often other files too?
Nice informative video. Unfortunately, people only tend to watch this sort of video WHEN they have issues. I certainly appreciate the information being out there 👍 I've always created a recovery USB when I buy a new computer and periodically created newer ones. However when I actually needed it (from a bad windows update), it wasn't of any particular use. In the end I had to use Windows Media Creation Tool to make a windows USB install and reinstall. One other useful piece I also needed was the SSD drivers from your computer manufacturer in order to use that USB to write to the SSD. Why TF doesn't MS include a generic driver with the install media? It was only after days of searching that I came across this nugget of information (from memory I did a search for ASUS IRST driver even though it was a Samsung Evo SSD). I extracted the zip file onto the Windows media USB and when booting just navigated to the driver. That allowed me to see the SSD to install windows to.
Interesting video! I've had a recurring problem like this for a while. I stumbled across how to fix it temporarily, but this looks like a much better solution.
Thanks Brian, I had to figure out how to recover the boot partition on my own a few months ago, I was very lucky I had a second computer to google the CMD commands.
Great video, Brian! What I am missing on RUclips is a short guide on DLP systems, such as Azure Information Protection, Symantec DLP, etc. and how you can use those to track AIP-labelled documents on cold storage or in-transit. How to detect/stop early deliberate leakage of confidential data for instance by ransomware groups. Maybe too niche for your channel though.
Great video Brain, Want to add another way to fix it in case the one you mentioned didn't work for some people as it was the case with me in the last week where I spent a lot of hours and days following similar tutorials. I tried all you mentioned above but it still didn't work for me. My nephew's pc suddenly gave the BSOD in recovery mode complaining that some files cannot be found. The way I fixed it out of frustration is to convert the GPT back to MBR then use bootrec /fixmbr then bootrec /fixboot then bootrec/ rebuilbcd. After successfully booting in Windows I converted it back to GPT. Thats the only way it worked for me. Hope this would help someone because I couldn't find any mention to this method anywhere in the Internet. Cheers Ah and one more thing, for those that when booting from their bootable media USB cannot see the drives then disable IRST/IRS Intel Rapid Storage Technology from BIOS. Then you are good to go
Clear and good explanation, and also the video quality. I just replaced my hard drive with NVMe M2 SSD to make my pc faster. Although I successfully cloned my hard drive to the new SSD, it still can't boot from the SSD, and always shows the error like in the video. I followed the steps you explained here, and it worked! Thank you!
Keep the repair videos coming. There is another longtime RUclips content creator (in the U.S.) that I'm sure you're aware of. Has an interesting case of an HP with an Intel Octane attached to a mechanical drive that won't boot (doesn't recognize the Windows installation although you can see the Windows partition and data files). Not sure if this procedure would work on that particular issue, as I've lost track of all the guesses viewers are throwing out on that 2-part series and counting. Not sure if someone over there mentioned something along the lines of this method or not. Would have to go back and rewatch the videos.
Thank you. Hundreds of videos and instruction in communities which didn't work for me. NOW, this video!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much. Also I found with bcdedit, under "Windows Boot Loader" and "device" / "osdevice" I have "unknown" instead of partition=C:. I fixed that with: "bcdedit /set {default} device partition=C:" and "bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=C:" and ........my computer is alive!!!!! I'm so happy. So my backup was working but something kills the boot instruction. No idea what. Now I have to find out, what and how I can create a complete backup of my system.😃
Thanks, Jim For The Video for teaching us, I am a Mod on CareyHolzmans Channel, Don't let the trolls stop you from making your videos because the world is full of good ones too! I appreciate what you are doing! and I'm sure Others do also
Really really useful video! I had the exact problem today that you displayed at the beginning. It happened on a test machine (luckily) on which I had removed a HDD (data disk) and replaced with a SSD but at the same time changed the SATA port connections of both drives (the new and the existing Windows SSD). I ended up rebuilding! I knew it was a boot corruption issue but couldn't understand why. I used Diskpart but my knowledge didn't extend to the information that you have provided here. Many thanks for taking the time to make this video.
You saved me man, Bios was not showing me the bootable device and the only thing I did was chaging my drive to gpt and the fixing the UEFI you are my hero
I had inadvertently changed the time to pause the computer in the UEFI(?) down to 10 seconds. Then the computer wouldn't boot off the C: drive. So, I had to get another drive and now use that drive to boot off. Will this also fix that issue? TIA.
You are amazing. This worked wonderful for myself. But I would like to add to this for anyone else that might be having the same issue I was, so I just upgraded my PC and was swapping parts out to the new motherboard and so on. When I tried to boot up for some reason two (2) UEFI partitions were created causing the system to have a failed boot. If anyone else has two (2) of those 100mb files with the same Fat32 format, just follow this guys steps and delete the vol that is higher then the first one so what I mean is his was vol 2 which I had a vol 2 but I also had a vol 5 so I formatted vol 5 and vol 2 but then I only created a new boot file for vol 2 Z:. And it fixed the issue of having two boot loaders causing windows 10 not to boot. I hope this comment can help anyone else out.
Thank you for your easy to follow step by step video. As my computer went to the blue screen of death after doing a upgrade to my computer. This fixed my issue, awesome video!
This can be incredibly confusing topic because of the permutations of MBR, GPT, Windows 10/11, EFI, BIOS Enabled CMR, BIOS Disabled CMR (UEFI only). People may have arrived at this video for a variety of reasons. I'll share the path of Windows 10 MBR to GPT to BIOS Disabled CMR (UEFI only) that worked for me in preparation for upgrading to Windows 11. 1. I used Microsoft's mbr2gpt utility to convert my disk from MBR to GPT 2. I used Minitool to resize my partitions to keep it 2 on the disk. Windows disk manager did NOT show me tiny partitions at the beginning and end of the drive that I had. I think Windows 11 upgrade does not allow more than 3 partitions on the OS disk. 3. I changed by BIOS to UEFI only. Leaving MBR enabled was really confusing because I ended up with one boot partition referencing another partition and finally booting into the OS partition. 4. I followed the exact, simple, and short instructions in this video. And everything now works! Note: I spent at least 8 hours total trying many other permutations including some disk backup and restores using Acronis to have consistent starting points.
READ: If someone comes across this video and this solution doesn’t work for them, here’s what I did: I updated my BIOS by downloading the update from the manufacturer’s website and transferring it to a USB drive. Then, I restarted my computer with the USB drive plugged in, clicked 'Flash BIOS,' and selected the update file on the USB. After that, I disconnected all other disks in my computer, leaving only the M.2 disk where I wanted to install Windows. This method worked for me.....
If you have a bcd backup, do you have to format and create new before you import backup? Can you not just import backup and skip the formatting and recreation of file?
@Britec09 That's my question also. In the first example we _reformatted_ and _recreated_ the boot data using `bcdedit`. In the second example, `bcdedit` is _importing backup_. Assuming the drive is not borked, then `bcdedit` is silently deleting and replacing or does it somehow merge the folders?
Mine was a bad HDMI Cable! The cable was working but when i touched it the screen would flick. I was removing all cables and inspecting them, now without that bad cable It boots every time! Thanks!
thankyou so much for this video, saved my life, I was stuck for 2 days trying to boot windows 10 into my new 1tb nvme drive, it would not load windows with the new drive unless the old ssd drive was not installed, initially i thought it was a partition issue or a MBR v GPT issue, after doing some research it was the UEFI partition, this vid solved the problem 🤩
Thanks for your video Brian. Command line is a powerfull tool to do all on a pc. In fact you can install Windows with it as well. Keep up the good work that you do 🙂
great video. thanks for sharing....! this content is good i like it also like product reviews and pc builds would like to see some NAS stuff as well as windows stuff
Thank you! You saved my day. After installing Linux Mint there was No Boot Option for Windows anymor in BIOS. In the EFI folder was only Ubuntu left. With the magic command bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /uefi I added the Windows directory. Now I can set in UEFI BIOS Windows as the 1st boot Option. 👍
Thank you!! My idiot partition manager is cloned my GPT disk to MBR. After i converted to GPT again, i never fixed boot Windows problem. Your commands fixed my Windows 🎉
Seriously good video. I have done this many times, but I'm always teasing to repair that efi partition. But mostly it is better to just recreate it. And with 500mb instead of 100 because some windows updates seem to fail if it isn't larger.
Hi Britec ~ Video idea for you. Would you be up for doing a video of the "Best Recovery ISO's" that we can put on Ventoy usb please? Hope things are going well. All the best Kieron
Wow you save bro thank you so much I thought I was going to have reinstall windows and lose all my data a like and a sub from much love from Maine USA!
if your boot record get corrupted can you get the boot record off a different computers and then use on the corrupted computer or is the boot record different on another computer?
I had to do this all the hard/blind way when I upgraded my finicky HP desktop machine to an SSD drive years ago and it wouldn't boot. I did battle with it for 2 days before slaying the dragon and getting it to boot properly. It was such a pain, I wrote up the process on a word doc for future reference. The first 2 things I plan on doing when I visit my brother this month is turning off his drive encryption and backing up his bcd.
Just to say I do find these useful, it's just I guess most people only watch them when they need to fix something that's gone wrong (like me in this instance). Keep up the good work many thanks.
Great video as always Brian. However I have a slight problem. I have run the list vol and don't see the 100MB FAT32 volume as per your video. I do see however a 260MB FAT32 partition. I have browsed into that volume and it has 3 directories : EFI, HP & Hewlett-Packard. When I go into each of those directories it's just BIOS updates. So.... where do I go from here? Safe to erase the contents of that volume and carry on as per your video or do I need to create a new volume and repair the BCD that way? For context, everything was working fine. Had an issue with microphone, so ran HP driver updates which said there was a BIOS update and this has corrupted the system. Help and advice appreciated.
Tutorial: How to use the BCDBOOT command on a GPT disk. - Windows 10/11 is installed in UEFI/GPT mode. - Unlike an MBR disk, a GPT disk does not have an active partition. - The EFI system partition has a FAT32 file system. - The EFI system partition and the Windows partition are not always on the same disk. - The EFI system partition does not have a volume letter assigned by default, but you can temporarily assign a letter using diskpart. BCDBOOT [/s [/f ]] You can skip the format command if you don't want to format the EFI system partition. diskpart list volume select volume # (where # is the number of the EFI system partition) format quick fs=fat32 (you can skip this command) assign letter=z list volume exit bcdboot x:\windows /s z: /f uefi - replace "x" with the volume letter of the Windows partition - z: is your EFI system partition you assigned above BCDBOOT copies the boot files from the Windows partition to the EFI system partition and creates the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store in the same partition. ==============================
Question: I am running currently on Legacy mood, MBR, and I have the same error. I try every to method to convert to GPT, but dosen't work. This will work if I change the current boot on UEFI from bios?
Thanks Brian again your xcopy codes in CMD as ADMIN just work! Other people can really mess me up when they give incorrect or bad advice, translation= not everyone with a RUclips channel is an "expert"..Very few people know how to navigate their way around using the command line. ***I have followed your channel for years and you have never led me astray! Thank you!
My Windows 11 Pro boots but in Advanced options I don't System Restore CMD Prompt or Recovery Option. I show System Start up and UEFI. The image seems to be damaged and needs to be repaired.
I followed your easy instructions but when I get to format the drive it does not delete them. It just says all ready is fat 32 file. So I can't get passed this point. Please advise
@Britec09 .. Helpful .. Thank You! Brian .. Have you ever seen this error and do you have any idea how to fix it? I can't seem to find a fix anywhere. I'm on Win 7 pro 64, but I've read it also can happen on 10 & 11. When trying to create a VHD in Disk Management, or diskpart as admin - "A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found." Virtual Disk Service status is - Started / Manual.
My PC won't boot, I downloaded a brand new Media creation tool and put it on the USB and I put it into the computer, went into the UEFI Bios and switched the boot drive to the USB, and it doesn't work. I saw all the drives including the boot drive from the BIOS window, so it knows it's there, Now I am concerned my M.2 drive might be bad, although it worked fine the night before. What should I do next? It won't boot from the USB windows repair? It does nothing. I have an NVME so I can't remove it off the MB (Asus TUF Gaming X570 Plus) to check on another computer.
the problem i have is I installed windows on a new drive and now in my BIOs its only seeing the original windows boot manager from the original disk drive and i want it to just boot from the new drive only and i cannot figure out how to select it in the bios since its not showing up
Thanks for a comprehensive guide. I followed it through and can see the refreshed content in EFI\Microsoft\Boot. However, when I then carry out the check via bcdedit I get "the boot configuration data store could not be opened the required system device cannot be found". My windows folder was showing under g: rather than c: and I'm wondering if it's relating to that. Could it be searching for the store on C when it's currently on G maybe? Thanks.
nice video, but I have a question, my PC has two hard drives, initially with windows 10, then installed windows 11 on the other, after resizing the recovery partition for windows 10, windows 11 brings that error you from fixing in the video, could that same solution work?
Excellent video. My computer crashed with windows 10 and had to reload windows but I wish I new about this video. My question now. Many of my software do install now but it fails to load and open properly. Any suggestion what I can do to solve that problem. Is it perhaps incorrect registry entries?
The Microsoft folder is gone from the EFI and Rufus is in its place! Help! It was the UEFI_NTFS folder. Is that the one with the Windows 11 installer on it in which I repair my computer?
At some point in the video you say "all this is corrupted" regarding th BCD files. Can you please give us a hint of what you saw to say that it was corrupted?
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I, for one, do appreciate you showing how to fix error videos, Brian. For those of us who work on either other people's computers or our computer, there's bound to be something we come across where our knowledge leads us to come online looking for the solution and when someone has a video tutorial instructing us on how to solve the issue, we should be so thankful to them.
Thanks for watching
@@Britec09 I know this off topic, but the dell optiplex 745 I installed windows 11 on if you remember from about a year ago now, I had to junk because ddr2 @8gb was having major issues lol, so I'm guessing their going after not only single core processor they going after ram as well for their next slave payment rofl, nothing I did improved so just a hint too those that like doing what they say can't be done, keep up the great work teacher
ps I have about 30 or so ddr2 ram
@@Britec09the format failed how do I get past the the volume is write protected?
Extremely useful Brian. I had to re-install from scratch a few months ago for the same problem. Now I know what to do for the next time.🙂. Keep them coming, you're the only one out there that I know of who produces little gems like these.
Glad it helped!
This was the single best explained video for restoring UEFI boot. I've watched so many videos and read so many articles that explain how to repair using bootrec or bcdboot commands that never seem to work. It seems so much easier to simply wipe the EFI drive and replace it with a fresh one rather than try to fix it. Well done on this video and keep up the great content!
Hi Brian, I can not format volume z as "this volume is protected". Are you able to help?
Did you get any help with this part. I have the same issue.
Same issue here
You’re such a homie for making this tutorial, you have no idea how much of a headache/stress/anxiety that you prevented by making this video… thank you
Thank you Brian - this fix it video is very useful and I for one are happy view this type of content along with your explanations, hopefully you will continue to present more fix it videos.
Please continue the fix it videos. Very useful and appreciated.
I also like these videos that go into the depths of the software to repair it. I would love to see something about cd/DVDs recovering data.
GREAT VIDEO. A few months ago I bought a 2TB SP SSD Drive. I installed the cloning software that came with it and I could not boot from anything. When I finally got in touch with them, the woman at tech support started talking me through a whole convoluted procedure, this one. It's exactly what she had me do and it worked. I wish I wrote it down to have in the future, but now, you made a video. Great work. In searching, a lot of people had the same problem with the software.
Thanks mate you're instructions were precise and to the point.... however for people working on some older version of diskpart might run into the issue -An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive. Volume label is simply the name of the drive you're trying to format, so in this case it will be SYSTEM.
I Had this issue, thank you very much
For me if it's been 2 years I just install a clean install of windows. For the average user this is the best way I think. If you are a up to date on all this stuff like you are Brian it worth it. I have tried fixing stuff like this years ago and it was always something else messing up. I got pissed did a clean install of windows problem over if you back up stuff on your computer on a usb that you care about. If you don't back up once in awhile a clean install of windows you loose everything if you only have 1 puter. I have 4 so I can always use that and put it on a usb stick. Am a big desktop shortcut person so what I use most the time is on my desktop and just a click away.
You and I are on the same page...thanks for posting your comment...peace..
Man!! You saved one of my production Computers! I was stuck in the Bios for two weeks! So Grateful for your work! Never quit on your Dreams!
I love your repair videos. I wish I had seen this a few days ago, I think it would have saved me from reinstalling windows. Keep up the great work 👍
It's wonderful to see how somebody makes the audience understand in the true manner of teaching something which somebody wants to know.
Thanks Brian.
Diskpart is a nice utility, and it's a good idea to have bootable media on hand if you're working with only one PC.
I'm a nerd, so this type of content is what I crave. The more informative, the better. I also enjoy content that has a "casual" feel.
Absolutely!
i have a boot problem. I will create the cd today. But should I try the other restore options on the recovery cd before I try diskpart?
You are an absolute GENIUS. I had tried everything under the sun.. I mean EVERYTHING to fix this issue. I consider myself VERY computer savvy, but never in a million years could I have come up with this fix. I simply cloned one disk to another, then neither worked. After hours of trying and failing to figure out why they wouldn't boot, I decided youtube would be my savior. You sir, are my savior. I applied the fix to both and they are both working perfectly. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this video. I truly appreciate it. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much for this straightforward video! I ran into a problem when I got to the part of formatting I got a message that the volume is write-protected. Format failed. Is there anything I can do? TIA!
Love these tutorials Brian. I pass these on to my computer friends so they can fix their computers and their friends computers.
Thanks
Nice little video, Brian. I have now just done a bcd backup to the root directory of C. I was hitherto unaware that one could do this. Thanks.
Glad it helped!
I definitely enjoy your fix it videos. I hope you continue to make more of these types of videos in the future. Thanks for all you do.
More to come!
You saved me!!! I didnt even have the backup you explained in the beginning I just did what you did in CMD and everything is restored to normal, thank you! Best tutorial, now I can start over and do things right! 🙏🙏👍👍🇸🇪
1. " I didn't even have the backup you explained in the beginning. I just did what you did in CMD and everything is restored to normal".
2. "Now I can start over and do things right"
Sir, I am a bit confused about the two statements. Please, WITHOUT THE BACKUP, could you tell me the exact final result you got - i.e. all your files, installed programs, data/information just as before the problem occurred?
I having the problem addressed in the video, so my PC needs repairs. But I do not having the backup as said, and also can't afford to lose any of my files, programs, data/information, hence reaching out to you before I perform the CMD.
Thank you.
Brian I been a longtime subscriber, please continue to make these type of videos. I'm always learning from you. Thank you and much appreciated
You got it
I had a similiar issue with my UEFI Windows 11 Intel PC so I followed this video and now my Keyboard doesn't work and the PC only boots up to the Recover (Blue Screen) and I can't select any options or boot into safemode or Bios anymore :(
You saved my PC! Not sure how I got into such a mess but was cloning my drive to a larger one and I got the screen that you described, Tried quite a few other solutions but yours was clearly presented and worked first time. I will now make a backup just in case it happens again! Many thanks.
Brian, appreciate this information. Only thing not clear -- when would you simply import the backup BCD file rather than formatting and creating the entire drive with bcdboot. IOW, when the PC won't boot due to corrupted UEFI is it just a corrupted BCD file or is it often other files too?
If your bootloader is corrupted
Thank you Brian. This is more important than allot of people realize. Keep up these great How To’s!
More to come!
Nice informative video. Unfortunately, people only tend to watch this sort of video WHEN they have issues. I certainly appreciate the information being out there 👍
I've always created a recovery USB when I buy a new computer and periodically created newer ones. However when I actually needed it (from a bad windows update), it wasn't of any particular use. In the end I had to use Windows Media Creation Tool to make a windows USB install and reinstall.
One other useful piece I also needed was the SSD drivers from your computer manufacturer in order to use that USB to write to the SSD. Why TF doesn't MS include a generic driver with the install media? It was only after days of searching that I came across this nugget of information (from memory I did a search for ASUS IRST driver even though it was a Samsung Evo SSD). I extracted the zip file onto the Windows media USB and when booting just navigated to the driver. That allowed me to see the SSD to install windows to.
Thanks for watching
Interesting video! I've had a recurring problem like this for a while. I stumbled across how to fix it temporarily, but this looks like a much better solution.
Glad it helped!
I have learned very much from you and even used your videos to fix or do certain funtions.
Glad I could help
Thanks Brian, I had to figure out how to recover the boot partition on my own a few months ago, I was very lucky I had a second computer to google the CMD commands.
Great video, Brian! What I am missing on RUclips is a short guide on DLP systems, such as Azure Information Protection, Symantec DLP, etc. and how you can use those to track AIP-labelled documents on cold storage or in-transit. How to detect/stop early deliberate leakage of confidential data for instance by ransomware groups. Maybe too niche for your channel though.
I will take a look
Please continue with these videos on fixing Windows 11, they're a great help. Thank you.
Will do!
Great video Brain,
Want to add another way to fix it in case the one you mentioned didn't work for some people as it was the case with me in the last week where I spent a lot of hours and days following similar tutorials.
I tried all you mentioned above but it still didn't work for me.
My nephew's pc suddenly gave the BSOD in recovery mode complaining that some files cannot be found.
The way I fixed it out of frustration is to convert the GPT back to MBR then use bootrec /fixmbr then bootrec /fixboot then bootrec/ rebuilbcd.
After successfully booting in Windows I converted it back to GPT. Thats the only way it worked for me. Hope this would help someone because I couldn't find any mention to this method anywhere in the Internet.
Cheers
Ah and one more thing, for those that when booting from their bootable media USB cannot see the drives then disable IRST/IRS Intel Rapid Storage Technology from BIOS. Then you are good to go
How do you convert from GPT to MBR?
Clear and good explanation, and also the video quality.
I just replaced my hard drive with NVMe M2 SSD to make my pc faster. Although I successfully cloned my hard drive to the new SSD, it still can't boot from the SSD, and always shows the error like in the video. I followed the steps you explained here, and it worked! Thank you!
We need more videos like this, the best of the best.
I like how you show me how to fix major windows problems! I don't know why the drop in views.
Keep the repair videos coming. There is another longtime RUclips content creator (in the U.S.) that I'm sure you're aware of. Has an interesting case of an HP with an Intel Octane attached to a mechanical drive that won't boot (doesn't recognize the Windows installation although you can see the Windows partition and data files). Not sure if this procedure would work on that particular issue, as I've lost track of all the guesses viewers are throwing out on that 2-part series and counting. Not sure if someone over there mentioned something along the lines of this method or not. Would have to go back and rewatch the videos.
Thank you. Hundreds of videos and instruction in communities which didn't work for me.
NOW, this video!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much.
Also I found with bcdedit, under "Windows Boot Loader" and "device" / "osdevice" I have "unknown" instead of partition=C:.
I fixed that with: "bcdedit /set {default} device partition=C:" and "bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=C:"
and ........my computer is alive!!!!! I'm so happy.
So my backup was working but something kills the boot instruction. No idea what. Now I have to find out, what and how I can create a complete backup of my system.😃
love these videos, I really want to learn about the command prompt and computer maintenance in general thanks.
More to come!
Thanks, Jim For The Video for teaching us, I am a Mod on CareyHolzmans Channel, Don't let the trolls stop you from making your videos because the world is full of good ones too! I appreciate what you are doing! and I'm sure Others do also
Thanks
Thank you Brian
Very useful and easy to understand instructions.
Saved the day and got my computer back online.
This video saved my life. Thank you so much. Worked a treat. Well done please keep these coming. Will definitely subscribe from now.
Really really useful video! I had the exact problem today that you displayed at the beginning. It happened on a test machine (luckily) on which I had removed a HDD (data disk) and replaced with a SSD but at the same time changed the SATA port connections of both drives (the new and the existing Windows SSD). I ended up rebuilding! I knew it was a boot corruption issue but couldn't understand why. I used Diskpart but my knowledge didn't extend to the information that you have provided here. Many thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Very useful and straight to the point, keep making content that is less obvious to typical user.
This is extremely helpful after 4 hours of searching and trying for solutions. This one has manage to help me boot up my new Nvme. Thank you so much.
Yes, I like the fix-it videos. . It is good to know what to do if things do go wrong. Best wishes from 758 🌴🌞
Thank you! You too!
You saved me man, Bios was not showing me the bootable device and the only thing I did was chaging my drive to gpt and the fixing the UEFI you are my hero
I had inadvertently changed the time to pause the computer in the UEFI(?) down to 10 seconds. Then the computer wouldn't boot off the C: drive. So, I had to get another drive and now use that drive to boot off. Will this also fix that issue? TIA.
Hi Brian, I think you should do these sort of videos as it can save time and money when things go wrong with your computer
14:13 Hi, I also like to see your tips for these fixes when my laptop windows plays up. Thank you for all your RUclips clips. Cheers John
You are amazing. This worked wonderful for myself. But I would like to add to this for anyone else that might be having the same issue I was, so I just upgraded my PC and was swapping parts out to the new motherboard and so on. When I tried to boot up for some reason two (2) UEFI partitions were created causing the system to have a failed boot. If anyone else has two (2) of those 100mb files with the same Fat32 format, just follow this guys steps and delete the vol that is higher then the first one so what I mean is his was vol 2 which I had a vol 2 but I also had a vol 5 so I formatted vol 5 and vol 2 but then I only created a new boot file for vol 2 Z:. And it fixed the issue of having two boot loaders causing windows 10 not to boot. I hope this comment can help anyone else out.
Thank you for your easy to follow step by step video. As my computer went to the blue screen of death after doing a upgrade to my computer. This fixed my issue, awesome video!
This can be incredibly confusing topic because of the permutations of MBR, GPT, Windows 10/11, EFI, BIOS Enabled CMR, BIOS Disabled CMR (UEFI only). People may have arrived at this video for a variety of reasons. I'll share the path of Windows 10 MBR to GPT to BIOS Disabled CMR (UEFI only) that worked for me in preparation for upgrading to Windows 11.
1. I used Microsoft's mbr2gpt utility to convert my disk from MBR to GPT
2. I used Minitool to resize my partitions to keep it 2 on the disk. Windows disk manager did NOT show me tiny partitions at the beginning and end of the drive that I had. I think Windows 11 upgrade does not allow more than 3 partitions on the OS disk.
3. I changed by BIOS to UEFI only. Leaving MBR enabled was really confusing because I ended up with one boot partition referencing another partition and finally booting into the OS partition.
4. I followed the exact, simple, and short instructions in this video. And everything now works!
Note: I spent at least 8 hours total trying many other permutations including some disk backup and restores using Acronis to have consistent starting points.
READ: If someone comes across this video and this solution doesn’t work for them, here’s what I did: I updated my BIOS by downloading the update from the manufacturer’s website and transferring it to a USB drive. Then, I restarted my computer with the USB drive plugged in, clicked 'Flash BIOS,' and selected the update file on the USB. After that, I disconnected all other disks in my computer, leaving only the M.2 disk where I wanted to install Windows. This method worked for me.....
If you have a bcd backup, do you have to format and create new before you import backup? Can you not just import backup and skip the formatting and recreation of file?
@Britec09 That's my question also. In the first example we _reformatted_ and _recreated_ the boot data using `bcdedit`. In the second example, `bcdedit` is _importing backup_. Assuming the drive is not borked, then `bcdedit` is silently deleting and replacing or does it somehow merge the folders?
thanks for the video, keep up the good work .... subbed for sure geezer ! cheers🍻
Mine was a bad HDMI Cable! The cable was working but when i touched it the screen would flick. I was removing all cables and inspecting them, now without that bad cable It boots every time! Thanks!
thankyou so much for this video, saved my life, I was stuck for 2 days trying to boot windows 10 into my new 1tb nvme drive, it would not load windows with the new drive unless the old ssd drive was not installed, initially i thought it was a partition issue or a MBR v GPT issue, after doing some research it was the UEFI partition, this vid solved the problem 🤩
Thanks for your video Brian. Command line is a powerfull tool to do all on a pc. In fact you can install Windows with it as well. Keep up the good work that you do 🙂
I probably make that video soon
Great video, thank you for the useful information, this worked out well for me.
Glad it helped
I enjoy this type of content and allways well explained in my opinion. Also like the tips on free software available to fix things.
Thanks mate
great video. thanks for sharing....! this content is good i like it also like product reviews and pc builds would like to see some NAS stuff as well as windows stuff
Thanks, will do!
Thank you! You saved my day. After installing Linux Mint there was No Boot Option for Windows anymor in BIOS. In the EFI folder was only Ubuntu left. With the magic command bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /uefi I added the Windows directory. Now I can set in UEFI BIOS Windows as the 1st boot Option. 👍
Thank you!! My idiot partition manager is cloned my GPT disk to MBR. After i converted to GPT again, i never fixed boot Windows problem. Your commands fixed my Windows 🎉
YOU SIR ARE AN ABSOLUTE GENIUS I WAS THINKING OF JUST REFORMATING MY PC BUT YOU SAVED ME A TON OF HEADACHE
Hi Brain this video was very helpful,please do more videos like that
Will do!
You've done us a great service showing how to do this and other solutions to potential problems in Windows. Thank you!
Thank-you, Brian. Thanks to you, my frustration with w10 boot ended.
Your videos are extremely helpful, they always help when it's needed. Thank you for doing what you do, you're an all-star man!
Seriously good video. I have done this many times, but I'm always teasing to repair that efi partition. But mostly it is better to just recreate it. And with 500mb instead of 100 because some windows updates seem to fail if it isn't larger.
Hi Britec ~ Video idea for you. Would you be up for doing a video of the "Best Recovery ISO's" that we can put on Ventoy usb please? Hope things are going well. All the best Kieron
Wow you save bro thank you so much I thought I was going to have reinstall windows and lose all my data a like and a sub from much love from Maine USA!
if your boot record get corrupted can you get the boot record off a different computers and then use on the corrupted computer or is the boot record different on another computer?
I had to do this all the hard/blind way when I upgraded my finicky HP desktop machine to an SSD drive years ago and it wouldn't boot. I did battle with it for 2 days before slaying the dragon and getting it to boot properly. It was such a pain, I wrote up the process on a word doc for future reference. The first 2 things I plan on doing when I visit my brother this month is turning off his drive encryption and backing up his bcd.
How to do this on a write protected ssd? It won’t let me format
Just to say I do find these useful, it's just I guess most people only watch them when they need to fix something that's gone wrong (like me in this instance). Keep up the good work many thanks.
Thank you for the great video. Will this also work if there is Bitlocker on the system drive?
Great video as always Brian. However I have a slight problem. I have run the list vol and don't see the 100MB FAT32 volume as per your video.
I do see however a 260MB FAT32 partition. I have browsed into that volume and it has 3 directories : EFI, HP & Hewlett-Packard.
When I go into each of those directories it's just BIOS updates.
So.... where do I go from here? Safe to erase the contents of that volume and carry on as per your video or do I need to create a new volume and repair the BCD that way?
For context, everything was working fine. Had an issue with microphone, so ran HP driver updates which said there was a BIOS update and this has corrupted the system.
Help and advice appreciated.
Tutorial: How to use the BCDBOOT command on a GPT disk.
- Windows 10/11 is installed in UEFI/GPT mode.
- Unlike an MBR disk, a GPT disk does not have an active partition.
- The EFI system partition has a FAT32 file system.
- The EFI system partition and the Windows partition are not always on the same disk.
- The EFI system partition does not have a volume letter assigned by default, but you can temporarily assign a letter using diskpart.
BCDBOOT [/s [/f ]]
You can skip the format command if you don't want to format the EFI system partition.
diskpart
list volume
select volume # (where # is the number of the EFI system partition)
format quick fs=fat32 (you can skip this command)
assign letter=z
list volume
exit
bcdboot x:\windows /s z: /f uefi
- replace "x" with the volume letter of the Windows partition
- z: is your EFI system partition you assigned above
BCDBOOT copies the boot files from the Windows partition to the EFI system partition and creates the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store in the same partition.
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Question: I am running currently on Legacy mood, MBR, and I have the same error. I try every to method to convert to GPT, but dosen't work. This will work if I change the current boot on UEFI from bios?
Thanks Brian again your xcopy codes in CMD as ADMIN just work! Other people can really mess me up when they give incorrect or bad advice, translation= not everyone with a RUclips channel is an "expert"..Very few people know how to navigate their way around using the command line.
***I have followed your channel for years and you have never led me astray!
Thank you!
With the love of god this video saved my pc 😍 Absolutely work.. just follow it properly..
Your video was very useful. It fixed my UEFI problem. Keep these fixit videos coming.
THANK YOU SOO MUCH! You have just helped me recover my c: drive. A huge relief as now I don't need to rebuild my Windows drive from scatch 🙂👍
My Windows 11 Pro boots but in Advanced options I don't System Restore CMD Prompt or Recovery Option. I show System Start up and UEFI. The image seems to be damaged and needs to be repaired.
I followed your easy instructions but when I get to format the drive it does not delete them. It just says all ready is fat 32 file. So I can't get passed this point. Please advise
@Britec09 .. Helpful .. Thank You! Brian .. Have you ever seen this error and do you have any idea how to fix it? I can't seem to find a fix anywhere. I'm on Win 7 pro 64, but I've read it also can happen on 10 & 11. When trying to create a VHD in Disk Management, or diskpart as admin - "A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found." Virtual Disk Service status is - Started / Manual.
My PC won't boot, I downloaded a brand new Media creation tool and put it on the USB and I put it into the computer, went into the UEFI Bios and switched the boot drive to the USB, and it doesn't work. I saw all the drives including the boot drive from the BIOS window, so it knows it's there, Now I am concerned my M.2 drive might be bad, although it worked fine the night before.
What should I do next? It won't boot from the USB windows repair? It does nothing. I have an NVME so I can't remove it off the MB (Asus TUF Gaming X570 Plus) to check on another computer.
Thanks for the direct solution, i looked at a lot of other videos but this one is most precise to the problem i was facing.
Thank you so much for this video. It was a massive relief to see my computer actually boot up again. Thank you, thank you.
the problem i have is I installed windows on a new drive and now in my BIOs its only seeing the original windows boot manager from the original disk drive and i want it to just boot from the new drive only and i cannot figure out how to select it in the bios since its not showing up
Thanks for a comprehensive guide. I followed it through and can see the refreshed content in EFI\Microsoft\Boot. However, when I then carry out the check via bcdedit I get "the boot configuration data store could not be opened the required system device cannot be found". My windows folder was showing under g: rather than c: and I'm wondering if it's relating to that. Could it be searching for the store on C when it's currently on G maybe? Thanks.
These videos are useful to me. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
nice video, but I have a question, my PC has two hard drives, initially with windows 10, then installed windows 11 on the other, after resizing the recovery partition for windows 10, windows 11 brings that error you from fixing in the video, could that same solution work?
Excellent video. My computer crashed with windows 10 and had to reload windows but I wish I new about this video. My question now. Many of my software do install now but it fails to load and open properly. Any suggestion what I can do to solve that problem. Is it perhaps incorrect registry entries?
Not a waste of time, great info.
Great instructional that fixed my PC. Thank you!!
Sir, you saved me from a big headache. My Fedora corrupted my main OS, Windows UEFI
The Microsoft folder is gone from the EFI and Rufus is in its place! Help! It was the UEFI_NTFS folder. Is that the one with the Windows 11 installer on it in which I repair my computer?
At some point in the video you say "all this is corrupted" regarding th BCD files. Can you please give us a hint of what you saw to say that it was corrupted?