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Questions tagged [bcdedit]

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How can I edit the boot configuration data (BCD) store of another disk?

BCDEdit allows for editing the bcd store of the current system drive (C: drive). Is there also a way to create and edit the bcd store of a secondary drive, so the system can boot from it later on? (For instance, by physically moving the drive to…
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How to clone the OS disk and keep both disks plugged in?

Here's the situation: A Windows RAID 1 has partially failed. The broken disk was replaced with a new disk. The old two disks do not have Advanced Format (bigger sector size). The new replacement disk does have it. Windows refuses to add the new disk…
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How do I stop Windows 10 Install from modifying BIOS boot settings?

We're setting up some systems to PXEboot via iPXE and, depending on a master server state, either boot normally or reimage via wimboot and MDT. The systems are configured to boot from the network first. iPXE and wimboot are both running under…
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bcdedit /export fails with "The system cannot find the file specified."

On Windows 10.0.15063 Build 15063 when I run bcdedit /export testing.bcd I get:- E:\>bcdedit /export testing.bcd The store export operation has failed. The system cannot find the file specified. However, I can successfully run bcdedit or bcdedit…
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Is it possible to script rebooting to another OS once?

In Server 2012 R2 you can hold Shift when you choose to reboot from the start menu it brings you to a screen that lets you choose which OS you want to boot to if you have multi-boot set up. This change is only a one time change, it does not change…
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Access Windows Boot Manager selector when timeout is set to 0?

I've installed Wubi onto a Windows Vista computer. I've also set the boot timeout to 0: bcdedit /timeout 0 However, now I can't figure out how to get the menu to come up at all! I read on the internets that I had to hold F8 or space when starting…
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How can I automatically boot into the Advanced Boot menu in Windows 7

Rather than playing the F8 game on startup, is there a way (command line etc.) of configuring windows so that shutting down Window and rebooting will always come up with the advanced boot menu or alternatively is there a way of shutting down windows…
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Reading BCD entries with PowerShell

I have to scan the BCD for a given entry in order to extract its properties. The problem is that PowerShell doesn't have any build-it Cmdlet to work with BCD. Given a sample output like this: Administrador de arranque de…
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Windows Application Log: Persistent errors BINLSVC 1284

This is WSE 2016 with the Client Restore Service enabled. We're getting persistent errors in our single DC's event log: I found this related…
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Getting data from BCEDIT with Powershell

I have to get some data from a specify BCD entry. The entry I want is the one identified by the {bootmgr} identifer. From that entry, I would like to get the "G:". See the screenshot. How do I parse the output to do it? NOTICE: I would like it to…
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Windows Server 2008 reboots into WinRe recovery environment

I have had an issue on a few Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard servers recently where when doing a standard reboot, it will reboot into the WinRE recovery environment. Going to the console of the machine and rebooting the device again will bring…
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What is the default value of IncreaseUserVa on Windows Server 2008 and how to show it?

I'm on a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine with 24 Gb of RAM. For a 32 bit app I would like to use the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE linker option. For this, if I'm not mistaken (and please correct me if I am) I would have set (in the past) the /3GB switch in…
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All BCD edits lost after reboot

I'm trying to create a system that will use native boot VHDs, as described on Technet. I followed that entire whitepaper throughout, making modifications for my system (I have three VHDs to boot from). I completed Step 13 and pulled the flash drive…
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How do I move the bootmgr folder to a different drive?

I'd like to delete a FAT16 partition that only has boot information on it. I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2. I've used BCDEdit to examine the boot configuration(output below). I'm just unclear how to move the bootmgr from F: to C:. Windows Boot…
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MDT messed up BCD file settings/location when PXE booting, error 0xc000000f

I have a MDT setup here which worked fine until I updated the Windows image to 1903 recently and made some other changes. Now the PXE boot on clients fails with error "0xc000000f", missing boot configuration data files in folder \Tmp\ of the remote…
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