I broke a thing. Send help!

[SageOfSpice]

So I went to reinstall Win 10 onto a new HDD a few days ago, and everything went pretty smoothly. Had the OS up and running, and everything. I had the previous drive containing the old installation installed in another bay so that I could rip all the files I needed off of it. Well, I spend a few hours getting all that done, restart and....

 

"Your PC needs to be repaired

 

File: \Boot\BCD

Error code: 0xc0000034"

 

So I go into the installation media's recovery tool, Start up recovery does nothing. Figures.

Go into the CMD to attempt to manually fix the BCD, and nadda. 

 

Have enough of it, and format the drive to try and just reinstall the OS.... only now the installation media won't even start, because it's throwing the same error that Windows was.

 

So, what exactly could the problem be? I'm really not intimately familiar with bios or booting works, only that things tell other things where the things are and that they should be doing other things. The drive is empty, so I'm assuming the issue has to be with some information stored on the motherboard? Some corrupt boot path? What do I use to fix this? Any help is appreciated.

[Cyracus]

1.turn off psu 

2.remove the cmos battery from the mobo 

3.attempt to start computer to ensure electrical discharging of all the things

4.reinsert battery

5.turn on psu

6.try again 

Hope it helps

[Terobich]

Well, I have 2 questions: Which brand is your motherboard?, and have you initiated the BIOS again?.

 

In case you did. You should format the drives again, the old one and the new one. After that initiate the BIOS again.

 

The error 0xc0000034 means that the boot configuration data file is missing some required information, like from the HDD which is your case. 

Try to install windows again but repeat the entire process from the beginning. Save up your things of the old HDD in different USB, maybe the corrupt file is in there. 

I can't give you a precise answer, because I don't know which BIOS you're using. 

 

Hope it helps!!

[evilarceus]

What commands did you try? I used these ones before when I had a similar issue:

 

Bootrec /fixmbr

Bootrec /fixboot

Bootrec /scanos

Bootrec /rebuildbcd