Hi yas, I needed to know if I can safely remove IE11 from Windows if I'm not using this browser for viewing webs and have already installed Edge 80 as its successor. By unchecking the component tickbox, I get a warning about possible functionality breaking of other Windows components that are...
Thanks. This remains a bit mystery for me. Definitely Microsoft doesnot make this BCD store management transparent.
I opened one month drive backup...and there is no C:\EFI dir a all. I think at that time boot menu was yet normal.
bcdedit /export "C:\Data\BCD Backup" run as admin from c:\win\system32 gives exactly the same error ;(
I suppose one or more files under C:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ is corrupt. Would that be possible to re-build the whole folder structure from scratch? (of course without having to reinstall Windows)...
It depends on what you mean administrative command prompt. If that's cmd run as administrator then I was in Administrative Command Prompt. Supposingly the error given was not complaining about insufficient rights but something like corruption or damage.
C:\> bcdedit /export bcd
The store export operation has failed.
System tried to read or restore file to registry, but given file hasnot registry format.
Plus notification bubble saying that \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD is damaged and I should run chkdsk.
/edit: I run chkdsk c: (in read-only mode...
I don't have any recovery media, just Win 8 install DVD. The error happens at point 4 of linked article.
As I said Windows start normally and run without problems, just without BCD store which seems to be completeley absent and not recreatable at the moment. Maybe this doesn't matter if Windows...
Hello all, I have following trouble: my OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit. It boots just fine, but I suddenly found out that something wrong happened with my BCD store. Tried more workarounds but none worked. The last I found How To Restore Windows 8 Boot Options Menu ended on bcdedit error mentioned...