
Select Reset BCD Configuration option then Perform Action to begin recovery. Re-open the EasyBCD program and click on the tab that says BCD Backup/Repair. Hopefully everything worked.Ģ: If that did not work for you then we are going to reset the Bootloader Configuration. What for it to finish then reboot your machine and see if you get the Windows bootloader. Now under MBR Configuration Options you select Install the Vista/7 Bootloader to the MBR then click on Write MBR tab. This should be the NTFS partition your Windows system is installed on. If there is no partition around that size then pick the bigger NTFS partition. In the drop down box that says Partition make sure you select the NTFS partition that’s around 300 MB. Next you will need to download the EasyBCD program from here.Īfter you give your name and email address for non-commercial use, click on the Download button and save the file.ġ: Next go to the tab that says: BCD Deployment, where going to be Reinstalling the Bootloader to the MBR and Bootsector. This is one method out of many, however I will try to make this as painless as possible. If you can’t boot into Windows then please go here and read this article from Windows. This article assumes that you can still boot into Windows, just through the Grub boot menu. Recovering the Windows bootloader for XP / Vista / 7 / 8.x can sometimes be easy and it can also be difficult. Use this to navigate to the file named “Winre.You installed a new copy of Linux and now you have the Grub bootloader instead of the Windows bootloader. Then right-click the same partition again and select “Explore” from the pop-up menu instead. Change the default “None” to an available drive letter (I used X:). MTPW lets you right-click that partition easily, then select “Change Letter” from the pop-up menu that presents. That means you must temporarily assign the target recovery partition a drive letter, so you can point to the Windows Recovery image file (WinRE.wim) that you’ll use to boot from. Simply put, you can’t use this command unless the path specification is valid. That’s where MTPW comes into play… How MTPW Makes This Maneuver Possible To provide a new boot entry, you must provide a valid path to the image file used for booting. Path: Because you can’t see the whole thing here, it’s actually “X:\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim” Accessing this path is what makes MTPW necessary to use EasyBCD.Name: Call it what you will (I picked Win10 Recovery because it tells it like it is).I show this on a screen capture that populates the fields for the Portable/External Media entry at the bottom of the EasyBCD program window.

In theory, it’s incredibly easy to add this entry into the boot menu. Use EasyBCD to Add Recovery Partition to Win10 Boot Menu
