This is the best step by step recovery and non-confusing video to recover your accidentally deleted EFI partition....this does help me save my windows installation and settings in my laptop....thank you!
You are my truly, truly hero. I accidentally installed Windows 11 on new SSD while old Windows 10 was present on HDD. This created me a dual boot function which caused my system to be unbootable when I cleared old HDD via diskpart. Now it works as I created a system partition and loaded it with bcd. THANK YOU!
Thanks. You saved another life here! Just, as someone else noted, there is no need to delete and then create partition with another tool. Simple delete it with the DISKPART using OVERRIDE parameter: DELETE PARTITION OVERRIDE
Hello. Thanks for the nice comment. My idea of deleting the EFI partition was to show that you can fix it from scratch. This may confuse some, but I hope it's not a big deal in general. Greetings
Thank you very much, you're a life saver! I've gone through a handful of tutorials on pretty much the same method, but you were the only one to explain the logic behind the commands. This allowed me to adjust my approach to the specific case i was facing.
Thank you so much for making this video ! I had a dual windows boot on 2 separate drives because, and I wanted to fully format my original windows drive. When I did that, I deleted the EFI partition and then I could not boot anymore. This way, I realized that there was no EFI partition on my secondary drive. I had to use diskpart to create a New partition and then use it as EFI. Now everything is working again!
Yeah, that did it !!! My windows 10 is booting up now, after many hours getting close but not understanding that the hard drive needed to recognize the efi partition as "System". I could not figure out how to make it be a system partition. In the "create partition efi" it does it as a system partition for me when there is not already one there. Great. No one else showed that part. Thanks !!
What a brilliant video. It has saved a lot of nerves, money and prevented frustration. Seldomly digged so deep in my computer's core elements. Thanks!!!
thank you very much. i could restore the EFI partition that i deleted by mistake.. but i did face another issue - my SSD itself was not detected after booting using usb windows install disk. i had go further to the new windows install option, load the SSD drivers for the partitions to become visible. After that i could continue with the diskpart process as described in your video.
Good video, but something I found out doing this to repair Win 11. The EFI partition needs to be the first partition, meaning all the way to the left when using Disk Mgmt in windows or Gparted in linux. I had it on the right side and Windows could not find it and would not boot.
That Fantastic Video Left Me With One Lingering Question Which Is "List Volume" Could You Elaborate A Bit More On This Section? I've Rewatched It Several Times, But It's Still Unclear. So, Is There A Chance You Could Break Down The 'List Volume' Concept In More Detail?
list volume shows you all the volumes and the letters they have been assigned. Simply put, the Windows partition you know as the C volume. This is what you are interested in list volume in the video. If you want to understand more about the difference between volume and partition read this article. www.minitool.com/partition-disk/volume-vs-partition.html Thanks for your review.
Quick & Easy Tools: Based On The Article & Your Comment, Here's My Understanding: Until A Drive Letter Is Assigned To A Partition, It Remains Just A Partition And Is Not Visible. Once A Drive Letter Is Assigned, It Becomes A Volume That Is Visible Within The Operating System. Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong, Because This Is What I've Been Able To Understand So Far.
Quick & Easy Tools: Thanks For Explaining That! It Really Helped. I Was Wondering, What If We Took A Completely Different Approach? Export BCD: Open Command Prompt As Administrator. Type BCD Edit /Export (Replace With Your Desired Name & Location For The Backup File). Restore BCD: Boot Your Computer With A Windows 10 Installation Media. Go To "Repair Your Computer" -> "Troubleshoot" -> "Command Prompt". Type BCD Edit /Import Could This Potentially Be A More Efficient & Direct Method Compared To The One Presented In Your Video?
BCD Edit BCD Edit /Export Exports the contents of your system's system storage to a file. This file can be used later to restore the state of the system storage. BCDbootSome common BCD operations, such as restoring a partition or setting up the system partition on a new computer, can be more easily performed using BCDboot. BCDBoot copies a small set of boot environment files from the installed Windows image to the system partition. Creates a new BCD repository and initializes the BCD files for the boot environment of the system partition, including the Windows Boot Manager, using the %WINDIR%\System32\Config\BCD-Template file. !!! But it is very important what you want to do.Specifically for the topic of the video, BCDBOOT is more suitable and reliable. But that's just my opinion. If it's more convenient for you, do it with BCD Edit.
Many thanks for this very helpful video, I got to the part where I tried to delete the partition and got an error message "cannot delete a protected partition without the force parameter set" So I used the override command to delete the partition. The problem I have now is I can't format my new partition when I type the format command I get a virtual disk service error, the media is write protected. Do you know if there is a way round this?
Use GParted life cd to delete the partition. After format it into a file system fat32, it needs to be a primary partition. After you do that go back and try again. I hope this helped, thank you for the support. Stay safe!
This error usually occurs when the system partition is set to inactive. Make it active and then try again like this: In DiskPart, type "list partition" and press Enter to see the partitions on the drive. Select the EFI partition. Type "active" and press Enter to set the selected partition as active. Then try again. Greetings
With this guide, you will delete and rebuild only the EFI partition responsible for the initial boot of Windows. You don't need to do this if Windows boots normally. Also, keep in mind that if you dual-boot with another operating system, it won't boot after that. Thanks for watching.
This is the best step by step recovery and non-confusing video to recover your accidentally deleted EFI partition....this does help me save my windows installation and settings in my laptop....thank you!
Glad it helped
You are my truly, truly hero. I accidentally installed Windows 11 on new SSD while old Windows 10 was present on HDD. This created me a dual boot function which caused my system to be unbootable when I cleared old HDD via diskpart. Now it works as I created a system partition and loaded it with bcd. THANK YOU!
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Thanks. You saved another life here! Just, as someone else noted, there is no need to delete and then create partition with another tool. Simple delete it with the DISKPART using OVERRIDE parameter:
DELETE PARTITION OVERRIDE
Hello.
Thanks for the nice comment. My idea of deleting the EFI partition was to show that you can fix it from scratch. This may confuse some, but I hope it's not a big deal in general. Greetings
@@quickandeasytools Sure, but the same can also be done just using the DISKPART tool, it's even easier. Anyhow, thanks for the great video!
Bro I was playing 4 hours with chatgpt, then I found your video and fixed my boot issue in 5 minutes
Great. Thanks for watching.
Thank you! Finally, a channel that cares about people without a technical background. ❤
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Thank you very much, you're a life saver! I've gone through a handful of tutorials on pretty much the same method, but you were the only one to explain the logic behind the commands. This allowed me to adjust my approach to the specific case i was facing.
Thanks for the great feedback. I'm glad I helped. Good luck
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Thank you so much for making this video !
I had a dual windows boot on 2 separate drives because, and I wanted to fully format my original windows drive.
When I did that, I deleted the EFI partition and then I could not boot anymore.
This way, I realized that there was no EFI partition on my secondary drive. I had to use diskpart to create a New partition and then use it as EFI.
Now everything is working again!
Welcome. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, that did it !!! My windows 10 is booting up now, after many hours getting close but not understanding that the hard drive needed to recognize the efi partition as "System". I could not figure out how to make it be a system partition. In the "create partition efi" it does it as a system partition for me when there is not already one there. Great. No one else showed that part. Thanks !!
I'm glad I helped.
What a brilliant video. It has saved a lot of nerves, money and prevented frustration. Seldomly digged so deep in my computer's core elements. Thanks!!!
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Thank you for a clear and concise explanation!!
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Thank you so much I was editing partition cause i needed to make an efi partition for macos and after saving changes windows couldn't boot thank you
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thank you very much. i could restore the EFI partition that i deleted by mistake.. but i did face another issue - my SSD itself was not detected after booting using usb windows install disk. i had go further to the new windows install option, load the SSD drivers for the partitions to become visible. After that i could continue with the diskpart process as described in your video.
Well done! You did great! Thanks for watching.
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I'm glad I helped. Good luck
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Good video, but something I found out doing this to repair Win 11. The EFI partition needs to be the first partition, meaning all the way to the left when using Disk Mgmt in windows or Gparted in linux. I had it on the right side and Windows could not find it and would not boot.
You can free space at the beginning of the disk and make a new EFI there. Then you won't need the old one and can delete it.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks 🙏
Welcome. Thanks for watching.
That Fantastic Video Left Me With One Lingering Question Which Is "List Volume"
Could You Elaborate A Bit More On This Section? I've Rewatched It Several Times, But It's Still Unclear. So, Is There A Chance You Could Break Down The 'List Volume' Concept In More Detail?
list volume shows you all the volumes and the letters they have been assigned.
Simply put, the Windows partition you know as the C volume.
This is what you are interested in list volume in the video.
If you want to understand more about the difference between volume and partition read this article.
www.minitool.com/partition-disk/volume-vs-partition.html
Thanks for your review.
Quick & Easy Tools:
Based On The Article & Your Comment, Here's My Understanding: Until A Drive Letter Is Assigned To A Partition, It Remains Just A Partition And Is Not Visible. Once A Drive Letter Is Assigned, It Becomes A Volume That Is Visible Within The Operating System.
Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong, Because This Is What I've Been Able To Understand So Far.
Exactly.
Quick & Easy Tools: Thanks For Explaining That! It Really Helped.
I Was Wondering, What If We Took A Completely Different Approach?
Export BCD:
Open Command Prompt As Administrator.
Type BCD Edit /Export
(Replace With Your Desired Name & Location For The Backup File).
Restore BCD:
Boot Your Computer With A Windows 10 Installation Media.
Go To "Repair Your Computer" -> "Troubleshoot" -> "Command Prompt".
Type BCD Edit /Import
Could This Potentially Be A More Efficient & Direct Method Compared To The One Presented In Your Video?
BCD Edit
BCD Edit /Export Exports the contents of your system's system storage to a file. This file can be used later to restore the state of the system storage.
BCDbootSome common BCD operations, such as restoring a partition or setting up the system partition on a new computer, can be more easily performed using BCDboot. BCDBoot copies a small set of boot environment files from the installed Windows image to the system partition. Creates a new BCD repository and initializes the BCD files for the boot environment of the system partition, including the Windows Boot Manager, using the %WINDIR%\System32\Config\BCD-Template file.
!!! But it is very important what you want to do.Specifically for the topic of the video, BCDBOOT is more suitable and reliable. But that's just my opinion. If it's more convenient for you, do it with BCD Edit.
Thanks a lot!
Welcome.
Many thanks for this very helpful video, I got to the part where I tried to delete the partition and got an error message "cannot delete a protected partition without the force parameter set" So I used the override command to delete the partition. The problem I have now is I can't format my new partition when I type the format command I get a virtual disk service error, the media is write protected. Do you know if there is a way round this?
Use GParted life cd to delete the partition. After format it into a file system fat32, it needs to be a primary partition. After you do that go back and try again. I hope this helped, thank you for the support. Stay safe!
@@quickandeasytools Thank you, I will try that and cross my fingers.
@@rabh6746 Good luck👍
Thanks for great tutorial, but...
When I enter "bcdboot c:\windows" it says "failure when attempting to copy boot files".
What's the problem?
This error usually occurs when the system partition is set to inactive.
Make it active and then try again like this:
In DiskPart, type "list partition" and press Enter to see the partitions on the drive.
Select the EFI partition.
Type "active" and press Enter to set the selected partition as active.
Then try again.
Greetings
nice
thank you but now my pc boots and stucks just before the logon on black screen
it will remove all of my data on my disk?
With this guide, you will delete and rebuild only the EFI partition responsible for the initial boot of Windows.
You don't need to do this if Windows boots normally.
Also, keep in mind that if you dual-boot with another operating system, it won't boot after that.
Thanks for watching.
great video thank you for such a good tutorial
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