I tried to run it all from the UEFI partition by enabling it from diskpart but I still get “access denied” for fixboot, no matter what I tried.
From cmd prompt I see my C: drive and all files seem to be ok, entire chkdsk shows that everything is ok with the drive.īootrec /FixMbr works, however bootrec /fixboot gives me “access is denied.”īootrec /scanos and bootrec /rebuildbcd both show “Total identified windows installations: 0” Ive followed various guides to rebuild BCD, fix MBR (even though its GPT and as I understand it MBR is not used), removed updates with DISM. See this pastebin: I tried a whole bunch of other stuff and also got errors. I tried a whole bunch of other stuff and also got errors. It shows “inaccessible boot device” blue screen. Some guides I found online say to use bootrec /fixboot but it give me access denied. From this point on I wasn’t able to boot. At first it seemed that it booted into my login screen, but again my I did power reset by mistake. I've run chkdsk /f /r, I've run sfc /scannow and I've even tried to restore the registry from the RegBack directory. Your source disk drive is Legacy / MBR but your new disk drive shows that you have a EFI System 100MB partition and. I've followed various guides to rebuild BCD, fix MBR (even though it's GPT and as I understand it MBR is not used), removed updates with DISM.
It was clear that I had only one choice to power reset it. bootrec /FixBoot fails 'access is denied'. On condition that your situation is not caused by the installation media, the most effective way to troubleshoot the bootrec /fixboot access denied error is to. After closing the command prompt, go back to the Troubleshooting window then click Continue to boot into Windows 10 normally. My “always on” home desktop today appeared to be totally unresponsive.