{"id":969,"date":"2017-11-01T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=969"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:31:25","slug":"repair-windows-boot-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2017\/repair-windows-boot-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair Windows Boot Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mess around with Windows partitions enough and you&#8217;ll get in a situation where Windows is otherwise undamaged but refuses to boot. Here&#8217;s a common fix. <b>(As always, back up your data before touching drive partitions&#8211;a single mistake can easily erase everything.)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b> Create a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/help\/4026852\/windows-create-a-recovery-drive\">recovery USB drive<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b> Boot off the recovery drive and go to <b>Advanced Startup Options > Command Prompt<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3.<\/b> Type:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nbootrec \/FixMbr\r\nbootrec \/FixBoot\r\nbootrec \/RebuildBcd\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><b>Step 4.<\/b> Restart and attempt to boot again. If this didn&#8217;t work, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\/how-to-rebuild-the-bcd-in-windows-2624508\">here<\/a> for more helpful terminal repair commands you can try with the recovery drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mess around with Windows partitions enough and you&#8217;ll get in a situation where Windows is otherwise undamaged but refuses to boot. Here&#8217;s a common fix. (As always, back up your data before touching drive partitions&#8211;a single mistake can easily erase everything.) Step 1. Create a recovery USB drive if you haven&#8217;t already. Step 2. Boot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}