You are welcome. BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. Glad to have helped. I too am happy to have learned a thing/two in this thread. May there be many happy boots & reboots to you & me. Good luck, & keep us informed.
Onedrive seems to have created its own drive G partition and moved my previous drive G partition to drive L
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One drive has messed up my partitions in that I had a drive G called WorkArea (G) that has the one drive folders to sync on it, along with all other files and folders on it. Somehow my G drive WorkArea (G) (partition) was reallocated to drive L WorkArea (L), and a separate partition G now called Local Disk (G). has appeared in the original drive G's place. (not talking about drive Mapping here).
In windows explorer I see the following screen shot
whereas in disk management, G does NOT show up at all and I cannot change WorkArea (L) back to G.
Drive L does show up in windows explorer, but is not in the screen shot. .
and trying to re-assign WorkArea to G I cannot, as it is unavailable.
how do I fix this?
I tried to uninstall OneDrive, and reboot but nothing changed.
Can someone please help me fix this as my backup plans are set for G as what is in WorkArea L and now backup of G only shows OneDrive files, that were not part of the backup plan to begin with.
Thanks for any help you can offer. Much appreciated.
Garry G
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage
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2021-11-02T19:30:00+00:00 Hi PCR....
Thank you so very much for all your help. I cannot thank you enough for all your time and effort.
This was a big learning experience for me considering I do not still, even know what BCD acronym means, or how to have even thought about this as problem,
You are a great community resource and I hope everyone to whom you have ever helped here appreciates you as much as I do.
Thanks again, and stay safe.
Best Regards,
Garry
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Anonymous
2021-11-02T18:46:56+00:00 Yep -- woohoo! It's a job well done on both our parts. And good of Windows to self-adjust the BCD after the removal of H: & a reboot. Victory is ours at last. I studied the BCDEdit help screens & practiced on my own BCD to be able to do all that. Also, there are sites & threads that discuss it. I guess do one really final: "BCDEdit /Export C:\BU\BCD_Backup".
And that's the glorious end of it. Good luck.
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Anonymous
2021-11-02T17:35:11+00:00 Hi PCR...
Ran commands above and all executed successfully. The following is the results of the first set BCDEdit commands. The last 2 follow behind them.
By the looks of things, all seems OK but can you verify that, and that we are finished with the fixing please.
If all good, thank you so very much for all your time and wisdom.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you know about all this stuff? I don't think even the average Microsoft tech would know about all this. I am impressed for sure.
Cheers!
Garry
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.1288]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Delete {201ca33d-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
The operation completed successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Set {becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4} Description "Windows Recovery"
The operation completed successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Enum {memdiag}
Windows Memory Tester
identifier {memdiag}
device unknown
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Set {memdiag} Device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
The operation completed successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Set {memdiag} Path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\memtest.efi
The operation completed successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Enum {memdiag}
Windows Memory Tester
identifier {memdiag}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\memtest.efi
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
C:\WINDOWS\system32>DiskPart
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.964
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: GARRY-INTEL1
DISKPART> Select Vol=H
Volume 4 is the selected volume.
DISKPART> Detail Part
Partition 4
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : Yes
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 999546683392
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
* Volume 4 H NTFS Partition 627 MB Healthy Hidden
DISKPART> Remove Letter=H
DiskPart successfully removed the drive letter or mount point.
DISKPART> Detail Part
Partition 4
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : Yes
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 999546683392
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
* Volume 4 NTFS Partition 627 MB Healthy Hidden
DISKPART>
The final 2 commands follow here
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Enum {201ca33c-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {201ca33c-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
device ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume4]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
path \windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows Recovery Environment
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
displaymessage Recovery
osdevice ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume4]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
systemroot \windows
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
winpe Yes
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Enum {becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
Device options
identifier {becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
description Windows Recovery
ramdisksdidevice partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume4
ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
WooHoo.. likes like we are done! ??
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Anonymous
2021-11-01T22:59:59+00:00 Hi PCR,,,
OK... followed the instructions above in your last replay.
All good except for the first delete. came back with a not found. All the others worked as well.
Forgot to capture the scree details before I rebooted though.
Rebooted using shift + restart, saw all the options then did just a continue to Windows. Windows started successfully.
here is the results of the last 2 commands:
BCDEdit /Export C:\BU\BCD_Backup <<<One final save of the BCD
BCDEdit /Enum All <<<Show it for a final look
Note at the bottom that I now have a new partition H in windows explorer but not in Disk Management. Can that be removed?
I think so but not sure.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.1288]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Export C:\BU\BCD_Backup
The operation completed successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>BCDEdit /Enum All
Firmware Boot Manager
identifier {fwbootmgr}
displayorder {bootmgr}
timeout 0
Windows Boot Manager
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path \EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {00699258-3744-11eb-956e-efd836ee9db2}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 10
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {201ca33c-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
displaymessageoverride Recovery
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \WINDOWS
resumeobject {00699258-3744-11eb-956e-efd836ee9db2}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {201ca33c-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
device ramdisk=[H:]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
path \windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows Recovery Environment
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
displaymessage Recovery
osdevice ramdisk=[H:]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
systemroot \windows
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
winpe Yes
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {becbfbbb-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
device partition=C:
path \windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows Recovery Environment
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \windows
nx OptIn
winpe Yes
Resume from Hibernate
identifier {00699258-3744-11eb-956e-efd836ee9db2}
device partition=C:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winresume.efi
description Windows Resume Application
locale en-US
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
recoverysequence {201ca33c-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
filedevice partition=C:
filepath \hiberfil.sys
bootmenupolicy Standard
debugoptionenabled No
Windows Memory Tester
identifier {memdiag}
device unknown
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
EMS Settings
identifier {emssettings}
bootems No
Debugger Settings
identifier {dbgsettings}
debugtype Serial
debugport 1
baudrate 115200
RAM Defects
identifier {badmemory}
Global Settings
identifier {globalsettings}
inherit {dbgsettings}
{emssettings} {badmemory}Boot Loader Settings
identifier {bootloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}
{hypervisorsettings}Hypervisor Settings
identifier {hypervisorsettings}
hypervisordebugtype Serial
hypervisordebugport 1
hypervisorbaudrate 115200
Resume Loader Settings
identifier {resumeloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}
Device options
identifier {201ca33d-3744-11eb-ab08-a9da93046d68}
description Windows Recovery
ramdisksdidevice partition=H:
ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi
Device options
identifier {becbfbbc-74c1-11e3-a193-d3e592cc6be4}
description Ramdisk Options
ramdisksdidevice partition=H:
ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi