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\Boot\BCD corrupted, won't boot despite several efforts
EDIT: Fixed! Turns out that it was the hidden system partition all along. It may be important to take note as I was confused/lost because the System Partition is not easily accessible to diagnose or fix (i.e. chkdsk) and one might completely forget about it. Unless you are already aware of the existence of the hidden partition, or might find it through tinkering around with your partitions, one might have a problem connecting it to startup problems. Thanks to Vineet Garg for the help!
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A Windows 7 installation wont boot with those error messages. I went ahead and tried to use system repair on an installation disk which just says that System\BCD is corrupted and I need to chkdsk it, I did and it still wouldn't work. Likewise it also throws the error "cannot save start-up options" sometimes.
I tried both bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot which says that they completed successfully, but still the same error appears. I then tried bcdbood c:\Windows which sayas it fails to copy some data.
Is there some other option I can try, The HD/Partitions are okay as I can read them in ubuntu and chkdsk doesn't show any error from them.
Can anyone help or point me in the right direction? I read one may try erasing/deleting the complete bootloader so that system recovery will try to rebuild the whole thing, is this possible and how do I go about doing it?
Last edited by Isoya; 10 Apr 2019 at 04:37. Reason: Edit for fixed