I should have more patience with manual bcd editing but see it drive consumers away quickly. Your help here seems to have worked.Now we need to get his F8 WinRe link restored and hope that other issues don't pop up as they so often do with this type of corruption.
Another case for freeware: Partition Wizard, Win7 or Macrium imaging.
Layback Bear, my OS is on my SSD(DISK0= c: is OS and e: is programs)
I realize I wasn't asked, but WIn7 doesn't assign a drive letter to SysReserved so it will not be written to by programs which clog it and make imaging fail.
If startup repair (3x) doesn't solve the winre issue:
In elevated command prompt
Code:Reagentc /disable Reagentc /enable
Kaktussoft, no Repair 3x did not work.
B4 I run those I wanna show you something
In the first Windows Boot Loader, description shows (recovered) and the identifier shows a8087bf8...but in device and osdevice they show (9a8087bf9...)
And Device Options, identifier at bottom shows a8087bf9...
Could this be causing "repair computer" missing from F8 options at boot?
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