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I have installed a new hard disk drive on my Acer Aspire 771. I made a USB recovery stick as well as recovery cd of the Windows 8 64 bit running on the former HD (which got corrupted, so no cloning possible).

After two days of struggling, I managed to get the recovery going, but it aborted at about 80 % of loading. As before, the system is not booting, and only the recovery disk helps me to get the command promt (all other repair options fail).

I tried to recreate the BCD, doing something like:

select vol 2 --> EFI
assign --> resulted in F: drive
select vol 3 --> Windows8_OS drive (471 GB)
assign --> resulted in G: drive
exit
cd /d F:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\
bootrec /fixboot
ren BCD BCD.bak
bcdboot G:\Windows /l en-us /s f: /f ALL

to no avail, resulting in the mentioned error message

I also tried:

BOOTREC /FIXMBR
BOOTREC /FIXBOOT 
BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD

without success.

I'm getting into slight dispair...

Thanks for any suggestions.

Andrea
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Michael
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The error could be caused by running the command without administrator privileges. I found that running the command with administrator privileges fixed this error (at least for me).

I say Reinstate Monica
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ricky gonce
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I struggled with this error too. I got it working by booting for an USB drive created with Rufus. A Windows DVD or another bootable medium would work too. Maybe the path changes in that case.

I verified if the BCD-Template file exists from the command prompt (which in my case didn't) by issuing:

dir %WINDIR%\System32\Config\BCD*

Then I copied the BCD-template file from the Rufus disk (X:) by issuing:

xcopy X:\windows\System32\Config\BCD-Template %WINDIR%\System32\Config\BCD-Template

Then executed again the bcdboot-command. In my case this was:

bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-us /s K: /f UEFI

The command then worked fine. Change those params to match your case.

  • C:\Windows – is the path to the directory with Windows 10 installed;
  • /f <ALL/BIOS/UEFI> – means that you want to copy the Windows Boot Environment files, including those for UEFI and BIOS computers (potential ability to boot in UEFI and BIOS systems). To copy only the EFI bootloader, use the /f UEFI command
  • /l en-us — is a type of the system locale. By default, en-us – English (USA) is used;
  • /c – this is a new BCDBoot option in Windows 10 that allows you to overwrite existing boot records (including debugsettings). Use this option to ignore old boot settings and create a clean BCD configuration;
  • /v – used to enable BCDBoot verbose output.

Source: woshub.com

The command then worked fine.

lufist
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The error message clearly states that "BCD Template" is not present (or cannot be read).

BCD Template is in \Windows\System32\Config folder.

bcdboot command uses it for recreating BCD on system partition.

The possible solution is to obtain a Windows 8/64-bit installation DVD or ISO image and do a offline repair using SFC command (use DVD or mounted ISO as source for all repair operations like bcdboot for example).

SFC will repair/recreate all Windows system files.

Kamil Maciorowski
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snayob
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