No external drives. I can boot to a flash drive or DVD (I'm booting to
DVD to get into RE.
T
Are you sure there are no external drives are plugged in? External
drives can sometimes re-order the way 10 sees the drives. I have had
this happen more then once with windows 10.
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Thane K. Sherrington <
th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote:
> I've got a laptop that started giving the dread "inaccessible boot
device"
> message in Windows 10.
>
> I've had this before, and normally I boot to the recovery
environment and
> then:
>
> Rename the current BCD and rebuild it with
>
> bootrec /fixmbr
> bootrec /fixboot
> bootrec /rebuildbcd
>
> But this time, I get "access denied" when I do the bootrec /fixboot
- all
> the other commands succeed and it rebuilds the BCD, but still no
boot. So
> I'm convinced it's the fixboot part that isn't working. However, I
can't
> find any links in Google that would point in in the right direction.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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