Windows 10: Stolen device, require software engineer help

Hello, my laptop was recently stolen. It had this microsoft account logged into it. I have been speaking to support and no location can be found as we believe it will have been reset by the thief by now. Running under the assumption that the laptop has been reset and will be sold on, the serial number will stay the same. Microsoft has access to see the serial number of devices linked to any account. It has been reccomended that I need to contact a software engineer through here who could see a data base of serial numbers, in order to see if a microsoft account of the thief or someone it wa

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Help with 0xc000000e A required device isn't connected

Does your system boot in EFI at the moment ?

f the error "the requested system device cannot be found" occurs when you try to perform Bootrec operations using a USB installation media, it may not find the correct system partition, which causes bootrec /rebuildbcd: The requested system device cannot be found Windows 10 issue. You may try this method to set the correct partition.

Step 1. Boot from a UEFI Windows 10 installation (CD/DVD/USB) disk, and in Advanced options page, choose Command Prompt.

Step 2. Input diskpart and press Enter to list all partitions and for you to identify EFI partition. Please note that EFI partition is formatted as FAT32 type (if the EFI partition is missing, Your installation may not be in EFI mode OR you have Greater Problems).

Step 3. Input select volume 3 and press Enter (here volume 3 is the volume number of the EFI partition).

Step 4. Input assign letter=m to assign a letter to the EFI partition and press Enter. You may replace m with a letter of your choice.

Step 5. Input exit and press Enter to exit diskpart

Step 6. Then type the following commands in Command Prompt and press Enter after every command.

cd /d m:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\

bootrec /fixboot

Step 7. Input ren BCD BCD.bak and press Enter to change the name of BDC file from BCD to BCD.bak file.

Step 8. Input bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-us /s m: /f ALL and press Enter to recreate BCD. If the letter you've assigned for the EFI partition earlier is not m, then change it in this command accordingly.

Step 9. Input exit to close Command Prompt and restart your computer.

This solution has helped many people resolve the error the requested system device cannot be found Windows 10 and rebuild BCD, especially for people who use a USB installation media to rebuild MBR.

Stolen From PartitionWizard.com

 

Networking for a stolen device

Hello,

Windows 10 allows users to quickly find other computers or devices sharing the same network. For us to verify if the old PC is still connected to your network, follow these steps:

• Using Windows Search, type and choose File Explorer.
• Click Network on your navigation pane along the folder's left edge. It will provide you with the list of computers using the same network.
• Check to see if you can locate the stolen PC's name.

Make sure that you reach out to the computer manufacturer to validate if they can track your old device's system information. After doing so, you may file a report to the police so they can conduct further investigation regarding this incident.

Let us know if you need more help about this query.

 

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