Accidentally overwrote UEFI-- How can I get the Windows 10 one back?

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AmyRoses

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Not 100% sure how UEFIs work, so I'd appreciate if someone could explain them to me or link me to an explanation- anyway, I accidentally overwrote my UEFI with another one, and now I have to F11 to select my boot partition manually. Is there any way I could restore this?

Thanks!
 


Downloaded a Windows 10 iso, and there doesn't seem to be an option to repair this specific problem in the 'repair' section.
 


So uh, that did a lot more harm than good

I followed the steps, but it said that it couldn't find the file path (paraphrased) when I got to entering 'cd /d <drive letter>:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\'. Then I couldn't boot my PC up at all, and it turns out that my entire EFI partition was then completely wiped and formated as RAW for some reason. After reformatting it as FAT32 in Diskpart and naming it 'EFI' again, I'm pretty much back to square 1. I can still boot into Windows, but I have to manually select the disk. I'll try creating the folders in my EFI Partition and try again, I'll report back, thanks for the help
 
Final update before I get a reply, but I guessed that that step was only for backing up and that I'd lost it anyway, but the next step fails also; it acts as if there's a syntax error in the command, and just tells me what bcdboot does and how to use it.
Command is bcdboot 'c:\Windows /l en-us /s <boot letter>: All'
 
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