Hi, I am currently unable to boot my VHD after a mishap with my MBR
I have access to the recovery console (using my DVD) but I kinda lost my notes on how to restore VHD booting without an OS.
EDIT: I can see my partitions and mount my VHD on the recovery console, I don't know what to do next to boot from my VHD again
I have tried bootrec /fixboot and /fixmbr
bootrec /rebuildbcd sees my VHD but it can't add it to boot list
in recovery console enter "command prompt"
BCDEDIT / ENUM ALL
Do you see something about your vhd? Please post
It says "The boot configuration data store could not be opened."
"The requiested system device cannot be found"
DISKPART
LIST DISKS (how many disks?) I assume 1
SEL DISK 0
LIST PARTITIONS
LIST VDISK (not necessary but just to know)
post output
bootrec /rebuildbcd sees my VHD but it can't add it to boot list => very strange it sees the vhd. The vhd can have names like C:\blabababa\sdgsdfgsdf\dfgdf\somename.sdfgdfg
afaik he can't no what's a vhd file! so isn't able to locate it. correct me if i'm wrong.
bootrec/scanos
does it find anything?
I have 2 disks may 320GB(DISK 1) boot drive and my 1TB(DISK 0) for my files
LIST VDISK shows VDisk 0 as Disk 2 (mounted as H:)
Vdisk0 is the VHD that I wanted to boot but I think my BCD is corrupted or something
bootrec /rebuildbcd identifies H: as a valid windows installation, however, it can't add it to boot list
EDIT: ^error returned by this is "The requested system device cannot be found"
please post output from diskpart
list disk
sel dis 0
lis part
sel dis 1
lis part
list vdisk
still don't understand. disk 1 is your boot drive and has an active partition to boot from? disk 1 has only 1 partition?
DIR H: do you see files (windows stuff?)
Where's the vhd located? on disk1 or disk2? LIST VDISK will show you that I think. Still don't know and how recovery environment knows location of hvd. Did you do that manually?
What did you do to make it fail to boot? If I know what you broke I can help
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