My laptop comes with 1TB spinning hard disk and 16 GB SSD for Caching. The SSD caching was not working after doing a clean install of Windows 10 Pro.
While trying to enable SSD caching, I decided to format/clean the M.2 SSD. I thought it won't cause any trouble to the Windows 10 installation since the OS is installed on the 1 TB spinning drive.
However, after cleaning the SSD in Diskpart, Windows doesn't boot anymore. I believe this is because Windows 10 stored the boot files on SSD (not sure). After some research online, I had a hunch that I deleted the EFI partition and that is causing the boot errors.
While going through many solutions, I came across Repair Windows 8.1 UEFI booting messed up by Easus Partition Manager? Error Code: 0xc0000225
Many websites mention the same method/steps to fix this problem. So I gave it a try. I was successful until the step of assigning a unique letter to the drive (G in my case) However, I am stuck at the next step. I am.unable to copy the boot files using the command:
cd /d G:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\
When I try the above command, it says
The system cannot find the path specified
I tried multiple variation of the commands but none of them helped.
Any help please? Re-installation is not an option unless it's the only wayto fix this
Is there any other solution for the boot problems I am facing?
Pictures of command window:
G:
is a new one you just created? In that case why do you think there would be any files in it anyway? To reinstall Windows Boot Manager,bcdboot
is the tool to use.bcdboot C:\Windows /s G: /f UEFI