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BCD means Boot Configuration Data on Windows Vista and higher. Its data stores boot configuration values and controls how Windows is started.

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How to use BCDEdit to dual boot Windows installations?

Short Version What are the bcdedit commands necessary to setup dual boot between different installations of Windows?5 Long Version I recently installed Windows 8 onto a separate hard drive1. Now that Windows 8 in installed I want to dual-boot back…
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List every \Device\Harddiskvolume.?

I've tried Diskpart commands like "list" "volume" (no it's not that at all), "disk" and "partition"; but it still don't work. \Device\Harddiskvolume0 seems to not be used, since \Device\Harddiskvolume1 means the first Windows' partition (aka "System…
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WIndows 7 cannot boot - bootrec reports FS not found or corrupt

For 3 days now I've been unable to boot into my Windows 7 partition, and all my research has been to no avail. I'm hoping someone here has more ideas on how to fix this. When I boot up now, I get the black screen with BCD error that says theres no…
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How can I add a BCD Boot Entry for Linux in Windows Boot Manager in EFI?

I have a Windows 10 Laptop booting in EFI mode. I currently have Windows 10 and Linux Mint installed. I want to be able to boot into Linux mint from Windows Boot Manager. The thing is, I kind of deleted the Boot Entry for it, because it wasn't…
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Windows 10 BCDEdit - How to change {bootmgr} path?

So basically, I'm trying to install rEFInd. I've gotten everything to go successfully besides this part: Type bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi to set rEFInd as the default EFI boot program. Note that {bootmgr} is entered …
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Deleted bcd and now can’t boot windows

My computer has been having problems restarting ever since I added hypervisor to my bcd so I tried to delete it but ended up deleting the entire bcd. I have tried rebuilding the bcd with bootrec /rebuildbcd, which returns Total identified windows…
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Issue with a Windows 7 Boot issue - involving the BCD perhaps

First of all, thank you to whoever reads this. I'm getting pretty upset and worried about the fact that my desktop is now definitely not booting into Windows 7, which it was very nicely before I was an idiot and used Boot-Repair (the linux tool, in…
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Windows 8: BFSVC Error: Could not open the BCD template store. Status = [c000000f]

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…
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What are the dangers of manually setting IncreaseUserVA?

I run visual studio 2010 on a 32bit system and regularly run into issues with running out of virtual memory so I can no longer do things like copy / paste in VS. I checked out a few options and the Microsoft line on this indicated running with less…
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Where is the BCD store physically located?

There are several tools to edit the BCD store, like bcdedit and Visual BCD Editor. They are editing the so-called "BCD Store". Where is it located physically? In filesystem (where)? On physical harddrive sectors (where)? On Flash ROM of…
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Can I change the icon of a Windows Boot Entry?

Is ist possible to change the icon for the ArchLinux entry shown below for Windows 10 (e.g. to the ArchLinux logo instead of the cmd-ish icon), using BCDEdit or some other tool?
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Installed a new SSD, Windows still boots from the old one

I recently got a new 1TB SSD for my computer (a Lenovo ThinkPad P70). My plan is to have this disk as the main Windows 10 boot drive, and keep the old one (500GB) as a secondary drive. I didn't want to do a clean install of Windows so that's the…
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\Boot\ BCD Status: 0xc000000f error

I am getting the following message whenever I start my laptop: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:   1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart…
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Utility to interpret BCD.LOG and BOOTSTAT.DAT binary files (W7 Boot hangs)

The main question is : "Are there any utility that can interpret these two binary files: BCD.LOG BOOTSTAT.DAT both of them updated during the Vista/W7 boot process ? I already know of EasyBCD and I have found this page about the BOOTSTAT.DAT…
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Windows 8 won't boot, BCD error

My Windows 8 laptop has a boot problem. When Windows tries to boot, I get this error message: Boot configuration data is missing File: \BCD Error code: 0xc0000034 So as suggested I booted to the console and tried: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec…
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