Windows 10: UEFI Boot problem after bcedit command

How can I check this?

Regarding Secureboot, CSM and Legacy Mode options, I have tryeid all combinations, none worked.

Just now I remembered something. When using the Recovery, the utility was naming the partition where I had linux installed as D:\ (which was the DVD drive name in the OS). Could it mean something?

 

It will tell you in MTPW under the TYPE column.... post a pic if needed of the view.

Pics of your Bios Options for CSM etc may help Saltgrass or I pinpoint an issue , you may also need to delete all the keys in the SecureBoot area , it usually has an option to return to factory state or something similar.


If the Computer was already registered with Win10 and you don't need the Win8 Recovery Partition any more , I would just Wipe the HDD with HDD Low Leveller Formatter , and Boot into a win 10 UEFI install DVD or USB , and forget about all these issues.

If it has a SSD then doing a Secure Erase will be quicker than a LL Format and better for a SSD.

 

You can check your partitions by using diskpart. In the Admin Command prompt type the commands below to see what partitions you have on the drives. Select the drive where you windows install is..

Diskpart
lis dis
sel dis 0
lis par

 

Looks like it's the second one.

The words look similar, but the translations are:
Recuperação=Recovery
Sistema=System
Reservado=Reserved
Primário=Primary

 

Looks Correct

Partiton3 is 16mb in Win10

Partition 5 is the HP Win8.1 recovery Drive

Not sure what the 6th partition is ? 1GB? perhaps also by HP for their Recovery System ?


What are you trying to do now ?


KB

 

Now I need to reboot the system to see if bcdedit and bcdboot fixed the problem of not being able to boot into Windows. I have not restarted yet because I have some work to do on the computer, and I do not want to take the risk if the problem was not fixed.
Just to be careful I'm trying to confirm that everything is as it should be before restarting.

 

Did you clean out the SecureBoot Keys? I guess not if you have not rebooted ? not sure on a Laptop if that is an option ?

 

I'm not sure if the options was to clean the SecureBoot keys or to set to default (are both the same?), but I used it just before using recovery.

 

The only thing I see which appears a little strange is the fact you show no free space on the drive. Usually the first partition is offset by 1024 and that will show up as free. Maybe it is just the way the system is seeing the drive but since you ran Ubuntu it may be involved.

If you ran the bcdboot command, what does the bcdedit show now?

 

Yes setting defaults is the same , it should put it back to factory with all the default Security Keys etc.


@salt.... I am not sure it is that strange , on my computers Diskpart is not showing the free space in 1511 or 1607 Win10 or it is showing it at 3072KB on one drive only (GPT HHD but eight currently with USB server attached)

The Offset is shown though but I thought 1mb (1024K) was for SSD's not Harddrives ? a Linux thing ?

 

It's different now. Some fields disappeared, others changed value (before bcdboot).

I can restart the computer in a couple of hours from now. Do you recommend that I do this or there are things I can do to make sure everything is correct?

 

you checked there is an EFI folder on the 2nd partition right? and the bootmgfw.efi file

It looks the same on my UEFI Win10 system , so hopefully it is good *Smile

Not sure if windows 8 has a recovery option but I see it in my win10 bcdedit output.

perhaps it just isnt enabled? at AD.CMD Prompt type reagentc /info

 

I translated it, so some fields might not have exactly those names in the english version.

 

windows 10 and windows 8 may do it differently ? I never had windows 8 but in Win10 there is an entry you see when you use bcdedit

On win10 and logical to me, this is on Partition1 of hardisk0 (recovery Partition), yours does not give a partition number....

Windows 8 Should still boot though even if the recovery environment is not set up correctly

What i see on Win 10

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:


Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 74d215eb-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0


REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit


Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-us
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {74d215e7-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa}
displayorder {current}
{74d215e9-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa}
{74d215ea-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 5
displaybootmenu Yes


Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 10
locale en-us
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {74d215eb-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa}
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \WINDOWS
resumeobject {74d215e7-698f-11e6-a476-bf872fb1eaaa}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard

 

I restarted the computer and it booted normally. *Party
Thank you all for the help!

In the previous post I made a typing mistake, it is \harddisk0\partition1\.

Now I will need to fix the problem of not having DVD/USB boot option. But I guess it's more related to things I did before on linux.