Question BCD corrupted, cannot repair in Advanced Recovery Mode ?

[Kyroix 74]

Hi, i recently did a Windows quality update and i got several pop ups after a reboot saying ‘We couldn’t complete the updates, undoing changes’. This kept coming up. But one time i booted up my pc and it did not start up, instead giving me the screen to the advanced repair mode. I did all the options in the troubleshoot section, nothing worked. I did the command prompt, and ran a couple commands including BCD. It appears my BCD is corrupted. So i did the BCD repair commands, but they didn’t work. So i was stuck.

I clicked "Continue to Windows", but didn’t go back to the same screen, instead the horrible ‘Your device/pc needs to be repaired’. And the 4 options to boot on the advanced recovery, BIOS, and 2 others i forgot. I tried pressing F1 which was the allocated button for booting into the Advanced recovery again, but it didn’t work instead yakking me back to the same screen.

So currently i am stuck on the repair screen, not able to do anything on it except use the button to go into BIOS, but i don’t think i can do anything in that to get into Windows. So i think, 99% my BCD being corrupted is what caused my Windows to not boot up. I need some help because Resetting the PC is my last resort. I hope this massive oarsgraph makes sense to you.

 

[Kyroix 74]

A "reset" would require you to be able to boot from the OS.
Which apparently does not happen.

Oh, so please can you take me through fully reinstalling it? Also does this mean when re downlaoding windows it’ll take forever

 

[Kyroix 74]

Also, kind of off topic but, after resetting, rocket league moved to epic games from steam, so it is no longer on steam, available to download. I have it on steam, so does this mean after the reset i’ll not be able to get it on steam anymore cuz it’s not on there, OR are all games i downlaided on steam, TIED to my steam account?

Also will i lose all my minecraft worlds or are th also tied to my minecraft account

 

[Kyroix 74]

Also does resetting my pc reset my BIOS settings?

 

[USAFRet]

Oh, so please can you take me through fully reinstalling it? Also does this mean when re downlaoding windows it’ll take forever

At the risk of "too many cooks in the kitchen"...

As indicated by SkyNetRising in #163
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ed-recovery-mode.3714043/page-7#post-22397633


Mostly the same way you installed in the 100GB partition you did earlier.
This time, however, you DELETE all existing partitions on the drive, and continue with a blank drive.

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[Kyroix 74]

At the risk of "too many cooks in the kitchen"...

As indicated by SkyNetRising in #163
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ed-recovery-mode.3714043/page-7#post-22397633


Mostly the same way you installed in the 100GB partition you did earlier.
This time, however, you DELETE all existing partitions on the drive, and continue with a blank drive.

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Do you think i could install windows from the Windows Media Tool that’s installed on my USB?

 

[USAFRet]

Do you think i could install windows from the Windows Media Tool that’s installed on my USB?

That's what you used before, correct?
If so, yes.

 

[Kyroix 74]

That's what you used before, correct?
If so, yes.

I mean ye i guess.

When in the screen to choose what drive to install it to, When choosing my Drive which has the broken windows on it, will it removed ‘that’ installation of windows and just reinstall
everything or will it like override or something

Because it says Total size 830GB free space 591GB. Will everything just get wiped, so this doesn’t matter?

 

[Kyroix 74]

OH and also. That spare partition i created for the windows installation, how can i give back that 100GB BACK to my main drive?

 

[Kyroix 74]

That's what you used before, correct?
If so, yes.

^^

 

[USAFRet]

OH and also. That spare partition i created for the windows installation, how can i give back that 100GB BACK to my main drive?

You DELETE all existing partitions, leaving one blank space of the whole 931GB available.

 

[Kyroix 74]

You DELETE all existing partitions, leaving one blank space of the whole 931GB available.

Ok so i’m in command prompt, how do i delete all of them? (Obviously delete all in the disk except the main 830gb one)

 

[Kyroix 74]

Do i just select the partition and put ‘Delete partition’?

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so i’m in command prompt, how do i delete all of them? (Obviously delete all in the disk except the main 830gb one)

NOT in 'command prompt'


Have only the ONE drive physically connected.
Booting from the USB....when it asks where, select Custom.
Delete ALL partitions you see, leaving one blank space.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Because it says Total size 830GB free space 591GB. Will everything just get wiped, so this doesn’t matter?

Did you copy user files somewhere else?

If not, then you'll loose all your files.
All of this will be gone.

 

[Kyroix 74]

Did you copy user files somewhere else?

If not, then you'll loose all your files.

Yep.

 

[Kyroix 74]

NOT in 'command prompt'


Have only the ONE drive physically connected.
Booting from the USB....when it asks where, select Custom.
Delete ALL partitions you see, leaving one blank space.

Ahhh MAN. Just deleted partitions in command prompt. My pc is gone. Didn’t realise you had to delete partitions NOT in the Drive. I deleted the partitions in the Drive. Is that bad? It is isn’t it

Great now gotta buy a new one

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yep.

Ok. Then proceed with installation.
This time choose to install in 830GB partition instead.

It may be able to fix existing windows by overwriting it. Sometimes that works. But not always.

If it doesn't work, then format 830GB partition before installing windows there.

 

[Kyroix 74]

Ahhhhh man my parents gonna kill me. Trying to boot the usb and it ain’t doing it tooo uuuuuuggghhhh

 

[SkyNetRising]

Oh. You deleted everything already.

Then do clean install.

 

[Kyroix 74]

Oh. You deleted everything already.

Then do clean install.

How i do clean install? When in the boot options i couldn’t even see the Drive in the list. That’s also not good. I’ve probably just deleted important partitions in it now it won’t function

 

[Jacob 51]

Ahhh MAN. Just deleted partitions in command prompt. My pc is gone. Didn’t realise you had to delete partitions NOT in the Drive. I deleted the partitions in the Drive. Is that bad? It is isn’t it

Great now gotta buy a new one

Did you make a backup of all the files?

 

[Kyroix 74]

Did you make a backup of all the files?

Ye

 

[Kyroix 74]

Nah man why won’t it boot to my usb

 

[Jacob 51]

How i do clean install? When in the boot options i couldn’t even see the Drive in the list. That’s also not good. I’ve probably just deleted important partitions in it now it won’t function

No sir. The drive will still be recognised in the PC even though there is no data.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Nah man why won’t it boot to my usb

Did you delete contents of your USB too?