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You will see the list of partitions, the drive letters assigned to them and their sizes. Next, you need to identify the local drives and volumes on your computer (most likely the volume letters assigned to them will be different from those you see when working in Windows). If there is no asterisk in the GPT column, then you have the MBR partition table on the disk, and you can continue to follow this instructions. If the disk has an asterisk ( *) in the GptВ column, then the GPT partition table is used on this disk (this means that you have a computer with UEFI and this post will not work for you).

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How to understand if you have a computer with BIOS or UEFI?В The easiest way is to check the disk partition table on which Windows is installed: GPT or MBR. Very important.В All instructions given below are suitable for standard BIOSВ computers with the MBRВ partition table. Identifying Disk Partition Style and Drive Letters If it isnвЂ™t, boot from the installation disk again and start the command prompt. Reboot your computer and check if Windows boots (do not forget to change the boot priority settings in BIOS). Try to restore the BCD file automatically using this command:

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Boot your computer from the Windows install image and press Shift + F10В on the language selection screen. Change the primary boot device to DVD drive or USB flash drive in the BIOS settings (depending on which device you want to boot the computer from). In this example, I will use Windows 10 installation disk.

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Start the command prompt and try to create a new BCD file and update the MBR record from scratch. If the automatic repair using Startup Repair did not help, boot your computer from Windows boot/installation disk or in the WinRE environment ( Repair your computer -> Troubleshoot -> Advanced options -> Command Prompt). If this error appears, first of all, try to fix the problem with booting the OS using the Startup Repair modeВ that can be started from the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). How to Automatically Repair Bootloader in Windows 10? If the MBR is corrupted, there may be a вЂњ No operating system foundвЂќ error. The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required informationДЄlso, the error may look like this: The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contain errors.

If the BCD file is missing or corrupted, if you removed/formatted a separate disk partition with the System ReservedВ label (and 500 MB in size) or a specialВ OEM recovery partition, a user is likely to see the following message when trying to boot Windows 10: Your PC needs to be repaired In this post, we will show how to manually rebuild the boot configuration (BCD) file and fix MBR on Windows 10. Also, you wonвЂ™t be able to boot your Windows if the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the hard disk is damaged. Windows cannot boot normally if the BCD file is deleted or corrupted. This file contains information about the installed OS and boot parameters. The Boot Manager in the modern Windows versions uses the BCD (Boot Configuration Data)В file to boot the operating system installed on the computer.

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