If you can not enter the Windows Recovery Environment (winRE), you will need to create a bootable USB to be able to repair the boot files.
1-Create a USB device with an installation image.
You can create using the media creation tool, download it on this link.
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2156295
2-Enter on BIOS/UEFI and change to boot from the USB device.
3-On installation screen click on "Repair your pc" on the left bottom
4-Click on "Troubleshoot" then click on the Advanced Options page will appear.
5-Click on "Command Prompt".
6-Run these commands:
chkdsk c: /f /r (and press Enter)
sfc /scannow (and press Enter)
diskpart (and press Enter)
sel disk 0 (and press Enter)
list vol (and press Enter)7-Verify that the EFI partition (EPS) is using the FAT32 file system and assign a drive letter to it that is not already in use:
sel vol <number of volume> (and press Enter)
assign letter=Z: (and press Enter)
exit (and press Enter)8-In order to repair the boot record:
cd /d Z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ (and press Enter)
bootrec /FixBoot (and press Enter)
bootrec /rebuildbcd (and press Enter)
ren BCD BCD.old (and press Enter)
bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-us /s <boot letter>: All (and press Enter)
(Note: The <boot letter> is replaced with the letter of the drive that you are booting from. (For example, C:, D:)9-When finished close the command prompt then click to return to the first screen
10-Click to continue to normal bootAnother option is to Reset Windows keeping the personal files.
1-Create a USB device with an installation image.
You can create using the media creation tool, download it on this link.
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2156295
2-Enter on BIOS/UEFI and change to boot from the USB device.
3-On installation screen click on "Repair your pc" on the left bottom
4-Click on "Troubleshoot" then click on Reset this PC
How to fix error code 0xc0000034 in windows 11? Even if I want to reset (format) I can do it please give me the solution
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Recovery and backup
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Anonymous
2022-06-05T08:06:29+00:00 -
VARADHARAJAN K 9,726 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2022-05-21T12:40:49+00:00 SSD means solid state drive .
HDD means harddisk drive
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Anonymous
2022-05-21T11:51:24+00:00 How to find what is SSD or HDD?
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Anonymous
2022-05-17T13:17:26+00:00 Find two flash drives that you can format ( > or = 8 GB).
On a working computer create tool that you can use on the problematic computer.
One or more of the flash drives may be repurposed depending on the findings or results.
- Create a bootable Sea Tools flash drive:
https://www.seagate.com/files/old-support-files/seatools/USBbootSetup-SeaToolsBootable.zip
https://www.seagate.com/manuals/software/seatools-bootable/using-seatools/
- Create a bootable Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) (Windows 11 iso)
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2376-create-bootable-usb-flash-drive-install-windows-10-a.html
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/download-official-windows-11-iso-file-from-microsoft.1009/
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
- Boot the problematic computer to the Sea Tools flash drive
- Run the Sea Tools long generic test > take pictures > post images or share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive
- If the test passes then continue to the next step
- If the test fails then backup important files and replace the drive
- Boot the problematic computer to the Windows 11 MCT or Windows 11 iso
- Open Windows Recovery Environment (RE) > troubleshoot > command prompt
- type these commands and post images of the commands with results into this thread
bcdedit
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 2
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
All of the above commands were diagnostic.
There will be new commands pending the above command results.
I don't have flash drives
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Anonymous
2022-05-16T05:31:40+00:00 Find two flash drives that you can format ( > or = 8 GB).
On a working computer create tool that you can use on the problematic computer.
One or more of the flash drives may be repurposed depending on the findings or results.
- Create a bootable Sea Tools flash drive:
https://www.seagate.com/files/old-support-files/seatools/USBbootSetup-SeaToolsBootable.zip
https://www.seagate.com/manuals/software/seatools-bootable/using-seatools/
- Create a bootable Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) (Windows 11 iso)
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2376-create-bootable-usb-flash-drive-install-windows-10-a.html
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/download-official-windows-11-iso-file-from-microsoft.1009/
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
- Boot the problematic computer to the Sea Tools flash drive
- Run the Sea Tools long generic test > take pictures > post images or share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive
- If the test passes then continue to the next step
- If the test fails then backup important files and replace the drive
- Boot the problematic computer to the Windows 11 MCT or Windows 11 iso
- Open Windows Recovery Environment (RE) > troubleshoot > command prompt
- type these commands and post images of the commands with results into this thread
bcdedit
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 2
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
All of the above commands were diagnostic.
There will be new commands pending the above command results.