Danny Bateman
Donor
Hey all,
Came home last night to an unbootable rig. Sucks because I had just done a Windows reset that seemed to work well to iron out recurring hanging when using browsers. Plus the GF and I had just started Portal 2 on our Steam Link the night before...
Anyway, I'm getting some help from a guy at Tom's Hardware (good utility for problems, BTW) but we keep hitting roadblocks.
Apparently the SSD Windows is installed on lacks a bootloader partition? This is news to me. Anyway, he was going to have me create one from scratch.
I get error 0xc000000f saying I've got an error in \Boot\BCD when trying to boot normally, so I'm booting from the W10 recovery disk I recently made. Already tried bootrec /fixMBR and /fixboot (both worked) but bootrec /rebuildBCD fails telling me the requested system device cannot be found.
Here are his instructions for Command Prompt:
diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 1
shrink desired=500
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign letter=g
exit
bcdboot c:\windows /s g:
Problem is when I go to shrink the partition (shrink desired=500), I get the following message:
The specified shrink size is too big and will cause the volume to be smaller than the minimum volume size.
Any ideas? I figured there were at least a few of you who work on computers and are way more well-versed in this stuff than I am. Thanks in advance!
Came home last night to an unbootable rig. Sucks because I had just done a Windows reset that seemed to work well to iron out recurring hanging when using browsers. Plus the GF and I had just started Portal 2 on our Steam Link the night before...
Anyway, I'm getting some help from a guy at Tom's Hardware (good utility for problems, BTW) but we keep hitting roadblocks.
Apparently the SSD Windows is installed on lacks a bootloader partition? This is news to me. Anyway, he was going to have me create one from scratch.
I get error 0xc000000f saying I've got an error in \Boot\BCD when trying to boot normally, so I'm booting from the W10 recovery disk I recently made. Already tried bootrec /fixMBR and /fixboot (both worked) but bootrec /rebuildBCD fails telling me the requested system device cannot be found.
Here are his instructions for Command Prompt:
diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 1
shrink desired=500
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign letter=g
exit
bcdboot c:\windows /s g:
Problem is when I go to shrink the partition (shrink desired=500), I get the following message:
The specified shrink size is too big and will cause the volume to be smaller than the minimum volume size.
Any ideas? I figured there were at least a few of you who work on computers and are way more well-versed in this stuff than I am. Thanks in advance!
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