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It still wants to scan and repair the drive on boot. Re-ran chkdsk and many errors still – lots of corrupted attributes errors and also many other errors and complaining about not enough space to deal with them despite many hundreds of GB of free space. It booted up after I replaced the reg files in system32\config with the hive files in system32\config\regBack and the windows logs showed disk errors with bad blocks / sectors. Well, the refresh encountered problems and said no files were changed. You can then uninstall the alternative installed Windows so far, and start using your original installation since the issue is resolved. Once you’ve installed a new Windows edition in parallel to original Windows edition whose boot records are compromised, you’ll found that problem is automatically fixed. In others words, create a dual boot environment.
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BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD DEVICE CANNOT BE FOUND INSTALL
Then you have to plug it and using it install the Windows edition on any other partition. One easiest fix to sweep out this issue is that you create a bootable Windows installation disk using ISO image of any Windows edition released after Windows 7. It’ll keep saying The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Now since the boot records are malfunctioned, Windows won’t let you to Refresh or Reset.
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The requested system device cannot be found. In such scenario, if you open the Boot Configuration Data using Command Prompt at boot, you’ll see following error: The boot configuration data store can not be opened. Thus when you’re not able to boot your system at all, the probability is that either of these two files is corrupted or inaccessible. The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required informationĪctually, the boot record is consists of two files Boot Configuration Data ( BCD) and Master Boot Record ( MBR). Recently, I have shared you the fix about error which you can read using following link: