Question Can't boot because I mistakenly deleted the recovery drive

[mesi123]

Hello guys, so I have a primary drive with the recovery partition. And I had it cloned from another drive which I no longer used. I figured I would delete the recovery partition on that drive and use the free space since I already have a recovery drive on my OS drive. After deleting that partition and formatting the SSD, windows was refusing to shut down. So I restarted and I'm given a BSOD. With error code 0xc0000225. I am given a few options, F1 to enter recovery mode and F8 to enter Boot Options. But pressing anything simply makes the screen flicker or restart pc with the same screen. I saw a page where they show how I can repair the Boot Configuration Data but I can't get past this screen and make it to Command prompt or other boot options.

I tried all Google solutions and tried to boot from other drives or directly to my C drive but doesn't work. I think the only option I have is to get Rufus and make a bootable USB? But I don't have a spare pc or laptop so this is a bit inconvenient.

Any solutions? Thank you!

 

[Lutfij]

Instead of using Rufus, use Windows Media Creation Tools and fabricate your bootable USB installer. You don't have access to a donor laptop courtesy of a friend or neighbor? All you're going to need is a 16GB pen drive(without any data on it since it'll be formatted by the tool).

Also, do you have any mission critical data on the now impossible to access C drive that got struck with mishap?

 

[mesi123]

Instead of using Rufus, use Windows Media Creation Tools and fabricate your bootable USB installer. You don't have access to a donor laptop courtesy of a friend or neighbor? All you're going to need is a 16GB pen drive(without any data on it since it'll be formatted by the tool).

Also, do you have any mission critical data on the now impossible to access C drive that got struck with mishap?

Thanks for the reply. It is either Rufus or WMCT, not really bothered but I wanted to know if there was a way to skip that and try to access command prompt or something without needing an extra pc.

I could find someone to lend me their pc.

The thing is, the drive is accessible and it even has a dedicated recovery partition etc but it just isn't recognised. The data on it should be intact, I can install windows on another drive and access it that way perhaps?

 

[USAFRet]

The 'Recovery Partition' is not part of the boot process.

 

[mesi123]

The 'Recovery Partition' is not part of the boot process.

I don't really know much about that but the problem started after I deleted the recovery partition of the other ssd.

 

[USAFRet]

I don't really know much about that but the problem started after I deleted the recovery partition of the other ssd.

Then maybe you deleted something other than the 'recovery partition'.

After your clone process (what tool did you use?), did you power OFF, and verify the system boots from only the new drive by itself?

 

[mesi123]

Then maybe you deleted something other than the 'recovery partition'.

After your clone process (what tool did you use?), did you power OFF, and verify the system boots from only the new drive by itself?

The SSD had 3 parts. The drive itself with old windows folder. A 500 mb recovery partition and another 100 mb partition.

The new drive has the exact same three partitions. And a windows installation and in the boot menu, it was the only one. I didn't clone it recently, it was like that for a few months so I thought might as well use the free space on the SSD taken by recovery partitions. I used Macronis those few months ago.



There was one more thing, I installed Storemi from AMD. After installation, it asked for a restart and it put me in a loop. So I went to safe mode and deleted it and everything was fine after.