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Ilya Pavlov2015-08-21 08:25:17
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Ilya Pavlov, 2015-08-21 08:25:17

Bootrec.exe element not found?

Can't restore windows bootloader:
Bootrec /fixboot says: Element not found. What to do?

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Dmitry Ivanov, 2015-08-21
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  1. Find a disk / flash drive with Windows
    In most cases, this way you can restore the bootloader
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    GPT not available check, but in theory something like this:
    1. Run the command line diskpart
    2. Display the list of disks in the system list disk
    3. Select the disk on which the OS is installed (if there is only one hard disk in the system, its index will be zero) sel disk 0
    4. Display the list of partitions in the system list volWe find the EFI partition (usually it has a size of 100 MB and FAT32) and remember its number (let's say it is volume 1)
    5. Assign an arbitrary drive letter to the hidden EFI partition:
    select volume 1
    assign letter M:

    6. Exit diskpart with the command exit
    7. Go to the directory with the bootloader on the hidden partition
    8. Delete the current BCD configuration file by renaming it (saving the old configuration as a backup):
    9. Using the bcdboot.exe utility, recreate the BCD storage by copying boot environment files from the system directory:
    * if you do not have a Russian version of windows, then the /l flag must be changed to the desired one

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