I have a drive that for all intents and purposes the EFI partition can be considered gone. It will not boot. I have a recovery parition that has the folders
- Boot
- bootmgr
- BOOTNXT
- EFI
- sources
Inside sources is a file called boot.wim.
I want to be able to boot to this partition, load boot.wim and reset the computer with a fresh install.
I installed Linux. Afterwards Windows would not boot with and error like "bad system config". It was during toubleshooting that I followed some advice to format the EFI partition. I've tried to reload EFI from the recovery parition and the Windows partition. Neither worked. I just want to load the recovery and start over.
I have a USB that can get me to the recovery console. Is there something in the recovery console I can run to make the recovery drive the boot drive?
When I mount the recovery drive as F inside the recovery console and try to run bcdboot F:\EFI /s V:\ /f UEFI
it says "failure when attempting to copy boot files". I can try with any of the directories listed above and it doesn't find the boot files it wants. I can run it with D:\Windows and it runs successfully but it doesn't get me anywhere.