Windows 10: Help me out of this failed restore mess

I was running Windows 10 Pro on a desktop Asus MB PC. Messing around with nodejs and npm installation I got everything messed up so I did a system restore. There was a restore point from day before this happened so I picked it. The process took hours and seemed to finish successfully. I shut down the PC. It was working. When I restarted this morning it went into Automatic Repair and said it could not find a repair. I tried various advanced troubleshooting options to get an idea of what was going on.


I tried to go back to system restore but got message that I must enable system protection on my local disk boot drive. It was set, so I was confused. I tried but couldn't start in safe mode. I then tried to use the command prompt. It loads a virtual x drive. When I changed to the C (boot drive), I noticed something strange. It wasn't my boot drive. The drive identified as my D: drive is the actual boot drive. No wonder Windows won't start up. I checked my Asus bios UEFI settings and see that it is also reading my D drive as the boot. I tried changing that, but for some reason it doesn't stick. On boot, the wrong drive is trying to boot.


I did some searching and found instructions to fix the boot record. I'm not even sure that's needed. Maybe if there were a way from the command prompt (I can't access the installation any other way) to direct the boot loading to the right drive, that might take care of the problem, but I don't know how I would do that. I started to run chkdsk on both my D (misidentified as C) and my actual C drive. They would take five and three hours, so I haven't gone there yet.


Also, I'm not sure any commands from the x drive shouldn't be addressed directly to the drives in question. That is, for example, wouldn't bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd, and bootrec.exe /fixboot attempt to work on the virtasl x drive? I tried running them. From D:\> bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd scans for Windows installation and returns "Total identified Windows installations: 0; The operation completed successfully." I guess that should be no surprise. I suspect the bootloader is gone from that (original boot drive).


But, from the drive identified as my C boot drive, C:\> bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd returns the exact same message - no Windows installations are recognized! I tried running bootrec.exe /fixboot and got "Access is denied," again, on both drives. The command prompt is running in Admin mode. I tried disabling automatic UEFI booting. I'm stuck. I'd like to avoid having to do a complete clean installation. I'd be happy jut to be able to reverse the system restore. How the hell could this have happened!

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HELP. SURFACE 3 IS MESSING UP

Hi Brandon,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. I understand the inconvenience you are facing. I will certainly help you with this.

• Which game are you referring to?
• Is this issue specific to any game?

I would suggest you to restore the system to the previous point where PC was working normally and check if this helps in resolving the issue. To do so kindly follow the below given steps:

• 
  Press Windows + I key and click on Update and security.
  
• 
  Click on Recovery, and click on
  Restart under Advance startup.
  
• 
  In the Windows Recovery Environment, on the Choose an option screen, click
  'Troubleshoot'.
  
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  Click, Advanced Options and then click on
  System Restore.
  
• 
  Follow the onscreen suggestion to restore your PC to earlier point.
  

Hope this helps.

Kindly get back to us with the status to assist you further.

Thank You.

 

Failed to complete System Restore

Hello Passegua,

The error code 0x80070005 may indicate a few things that are causing System Restore Failure. It could be corrupted system files, conflict with other programs such as Anti-virus protection, and etc. As a first troubleshooting step, we suggest
that you perform System restore in Safe Mode. Kindly refer to this link for more information and steps.

Another step that I can suggest is Clean Boot, if the above step fails.

Let us know the outcome.

 

help to remote connect

not sure how to use both programs u 2 suggested, i need more helpful steps thanks