Failure When Attempting to Copy Boot Files - Windows BCDBOOT Error FIXED in GPT UEFI MBR BIOS PCs 

Thank you very much!! I watched over 30 videos before yours so I had a feeling your solution would work for me because you were the only one who understood my issue!! Thanks for paying attention & explaining the issue we are having! Thank you

0:00 Intro 0:41 Explaining BCD 1:12 Syntax 1:41 Finding drive letters for source and system partition 4:00 Fixing the error in a UEFI/GPT system 5:12 Fixing the error in a BIOS/MBR system 6:56 Outro

Great video, actually explains windows bootloaders instead of just saying what to do

Oh my god you fixed it my friend 😭, my pc had been down for 3 weeks with no luck and you’ve done it thank you so much

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Oh my god the relief. I've been trying to fix my computer for two stressful weeks. I was looking at losing programs that are irreplacable. Followed the information here and I'm back in business. Thanks a lot - I'll play it again a few times letting the ads play! PS my detail partition command did not say 'active' yes or no - but it did say 'installable'. I typed 'active' anyway.

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Your video this one and another one you mentioned above really help me i watched more than 70 videos and read a lot of blog ,forum or whatever my head hurt so much . I havw tried to fix this since 4 days ago now i am able to sleep well, i only slept several hours since 4 days ago i didn't eat well . Thank you very much. I subscribed and will follow your videos from now on.

I just recently cloned my boot drive to another one to upgrade size. I started getting blue screen of death though, and when trying other videos suggestions to rebuild the mbr and boot files, none worked, except this video. Holy cow, I thought I was a goner, thank you.

Thanks a bunch I accidentally accepted a Windows 11 upgrade and it caused my computer to enter an automatic repair boot loop, after this video I was able to figure out that previously my windows was installed on my 256gb nvme but after the upgrade it installed it on my 1TB nvme instead. So I just had to go into the BIOS/UEFI and adjust the boot order of my drives and I booted into Windows 11 with no issues

I almost lost hope that I will be able to fix my laptop system and I have to re-install the windows by loosing some of my precious data. I tried number of videos on youtube but nothing worked for me. But I must say that your video proved life saving for me as I am able to fixed my laptop system very smoothly. Thank you so much.

I watched 100 plus videos , but i didn't get the concept . The way you show is awesome it's amazing and now i understand how to fix boot problem ❤️✌️ Thanks a lot 🙏🙏

Your video really helped me i didn't see Fat 32 but i created one with your i Instructions in this video ,BEST BEST BEST

Thank you for this video, changed the drive letters to the letters I was using and followed the steps and managed to solve the issue!

Thank you !!!! Your advice has just fixed my old Windows laptop !!!

Bro is a genius, a 2 minute video fix after I'm looking for repair tools for 2 days

I am pleased with this tutorial. Mainly because he differentiated between MBR and GPT.

Thank you! I had windows startup errors after SSD clone. Bcdboot command worked on me. Tried it before with C:\windows, but it didn't work, then found out windows can be on another volume, followed your steps to find right volume where windows is and then found out that it is on D: for some reason. Then I just ran bcdboot command with right paths and now I'm typing this from working windows.

May God bless you, my man. I'm incredibly grateful for your help. I was stuck for 3 hours trying to solve this issue and your video got me through it. Thank you very much!!!

Thanks a ton man!! I ran into this boot problem with windows 8 and had tried a lot of things and was about to give up and re-install the windows but you saved it!! I actually cloned my hdd to new SDD and had this problem.. You are great 👍🙏

Thanks for the video. I'm not getting a boot error but I am getting a PXE61 media test failure. SSD was a working drive until I had someone load a software package onto it. I have confirmed the drive is now GPT and I need MBR. I used disk genius to successfully change it to MBR. I still get the PXE61 error. I don't get the BCDBOOT error. I was thinking this might be the cause but now thinking something else may be my problem. I still learned a lot from your videos, Thanks!

Hey! Today my PC with Win11 started to update and Windows doesn't run after reboot. It is trying automatic recover, but no result. Safe mode doesn't work also. I'm trying your method, for me it looks like bcdboot F:\Windows /s H: /f All, and it started to move but after "Creating Resume object" I have 2 errors: bfsvc error: failed to get element device type status c0000225 bfsvc error: failed to populate bcd store status c0000225 What am I doing wrong? P.S. I also have 2 hidden NTFS volumes besides 1 FAT32 volume which I chose for recovering, one of them has label "recove.." don't know what s this.

Thanks for this video. It worked. Had to change my drive directory to C: and follow your instructions. This video solved my greatest challenges. If you are using bitlocker, please keep your recovery code handy because without it you'll not be able to copy files in the CMD. I just subscribed! ❤️

This is the only solution that works and explains stuff properly, thanks

At first i disliked the screen reader and would rather have a person. But this is an excellent video and clearly explains the problem and solution. Thank you!

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I followed ur steps and it didn’t exute the command the same massage “failure when attempting to copy boot files, I have a gpt disk, also I didn’t install windows so help me quickly plz ,ur videos r epic, keep going

😂😂 thank you my man. Smiling is my reaction to everything btw. In this case it's "happy" and "out of trouble" laugh.

I can't copy boot file because my main partition is recognised as RAW and not NTFS , is there any way to fix , I can't afford to format , I have important files.

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Next to my Volume 0 and Volume 1 where Windows should be under Ltr column there is no any letter (C, D...) so I don't know how to select it and execute these commands. Any help there?

This did not work for me as I still can not launch windows 10. However, in your command for the GPT structure bcdboot C:|Windows /l en-us /s Z: /f UEFI /v, I get an extra message at the end where you didn't. The extra message is BFSVC: Setting {default} to {db198ff3-cedb-11ea-a807-f48964c423e3}. Prior to this message, 5 messages up it set default to ..Setting {default} to {f968be43-5cf8-11ef-b898-86368f00e120}. So, in my case it's setting/changing the {default} value twice, whereas for you, it only set {default} value once. Please advise. Thanks.

loteraly fixed it in jist one command good job mr

Thank you so much! You save my money supposedly to be as a payment to have my computer fixed haha and I learned a valuable lesson

The MBR solution worked, thank you so much!!

This video is just saved me . I watched a ton of videos but they dont worked . Thank you so much❤❤❤

God bless you man, thank you so much. I was reading from many websites and then I decided to search for video tutorial and luckily I found your video.

Thanks. you gave the best explanation.❤

Thank you very much good tutorial it fix fix my problem with gpt partition

Thanks awesome video, it helped me to fix my problem, I was about to lose all my data since I was just going to reset it all, but by following your tutorial everything is as good as new. New sub here :)

Thanx a million ❤️👍 I was afraid to lose all my data but this tutorial is AMAZING

I followed it all. and it worked so far. should I now go back and do bootrec commands or will that mess this up?

🎉🎉🎉it worked . You are a life saver

Hi, fascinating that this all works normally... However, for me running bcdboot command like this on gpt exits with the error code: BFSVC Error: Could not open the BCD template store. Status = [c000000f] My win11 surface pro doesnt boot up at all, can just execute commands and automatic repair definitely is not a working option. Trying around - any suggestions?

superb job, learning curve was excellent, and scripting the commands on the side the best i've seen and really appreciated - i did watch all 3 videos. OK, now for my challenge that still remains: my win10 is legacy bios-64bit, S: is the system reserved @100mb, and C: is windows @110gb. i executed [ bcdboot C:\Windows /l en-US /s S: /f bios ] and the response was [ boot files successfully created ]. from dir S:\ i find EFI [not sure why the EFI is there?] 0 files 0 bytes 1 dir 40,701,952 bytes free i execute successfully [ bootrec /fixmbr ] but both [ bootrec /fixboot and /rebuildbcd ] fail with [ element not found ] now, in building a WinPE usb, when i got to begin executing bootrec, i did NOT have a bootrec command. With another excellent video showing how to add the bootrec command, the WinPE usb was rebuilt by capturing a full boot.wim from the win10 ISO file and re-running the WinPE usb creation using the full boot.wim file. now i am lost. i did notice that 1 tutorial took a step to format what would be my S:, and then somehow it got rebuilt, but i am not sure what that achieves or how to recover if i screw that up? is this situation 'unique'? or is there yet possibly a 4th video on this challenge? in any event, i learned a lot and thanks for your work

Again it showing failure when attempting to copy bootfiles after execution of bcdboot command

I have a Raid 0 windows 10 PC. The PC used to work normal. As a result of power cut I no longer could boot the PC. Bootrec/fixboot failed "Access is denied". I carried out your instruction and I received a message "Boots files successfully created". But the PC still does not boot. Could you please help. Thank you

Thank you so much, I love you. I had to think a lot about using which letter after s. But I did the job.

Hello, I tried this and i still get the error. Original issue is: I am stuck in safe mode or repair mode idk and cannot go back. The only thing I haven’t tried is resetting (which I really really do not want to do). Windows 8.1 Please help if you can!! Thank you

2024 and still works !!! Thanks

Hi there , it was very useful and informative tutorial video . keep it up . thnx

When i tried to execute the command "c:\windows blablah". It just said "the bcdboot.exe command line tool is used to copy critical boot files to the system partition and to create a new system bcd store." It then just gave me command guides :/ Please help ☹️

If I type bcdboot command it shows me the explanation of bcd boot and how to use it

thank you so much boss i was about to reboot my whole computer and loose everything you saved mi ass much gratitude i will now back everything up on my computer lessssssssson learnedddd

I messed up Windows trying to install Ubuntu on a Bmax(I couldn't because of some boot constraint Anyway I than remove Ubuntu but now Windows 11 don't boot. I tried like you said and all works fine but still got this error BFSVC: Unable to open file C:\Windows\boot\Resources\BOOTERS.DLL for read because the file or path does not exist Error: Failed to validate boot manager checksum (C:\Windows\boot\EFI\bootmgw.efi)| Error code = 0xc1 Any idea? Thanks a lot sir

Thank you so much ❤❤God bless you ❤❤

The commands should be shown on the screen clearly to use them correctly in order to fix these errors like BSOD error and may be the other problems 😳

Now i can't enable secure boot if enable i can't boot to window and the old broken boot manager is still there although i deleted through bios maybe i missed some step but it's okay i will search how to fix it later not big problem i can wait.

Thanks for this video. omg after over 20 video...nothin worked...thx alot master

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Thank you very much for this video. Do you have on on blue screen (no less or equal) I believe it is?. I'm stuck in a loop

When i type the “bcdboot c:\windows /l en-us /s z: /f bios” (all the assigned drives are correct, i double checked), what appears is the description of what a BCDBOOT Fil creation and repair tool is complete with examples on how to write them.

well explained. Now i understand why my commands don't work. thank you very much.

I'm like number 100. Excellent explanation.

BFSVC Error: Failed to set element application device. Status = [c00000bb] BFSVC Error: Failed to populate BCD store. Status = [c00000bb] . Help me

Hi I recently cloned my old hdd ( which is gpt drive) to a new Nvme drive ( which is also gpt and both are 1 TB size). I used macrium reflect and clone was successfully completed without any errors. However I cannot boot from the new Nvme drive. I tried changing the boot order in my BIOS but it doesn't boot and runs into the blue screen with the recovery options everytime I select it in boot order. Will methods shown on your tutorial help me to fix my drive? I didn't get any error message when booting though (messages you shown in the beginning of the tutorial). Your tutorial is the only one I could understand. Please help.

still the same sir BFSVC Error: Failed to validate boot manager checksum (c:\Windows\boot\PCAT\bootmgr)! Error code = 0xc1 Failure when attempting to copy boot files.

Omg! omg! its working for me! 😍 thankyou so much! i gets your tutorial and your explanation. now i can use my computer now. Thankyou thankyou so much! 😍

BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH!! 💜💜 You just saved my life

Thank you so much. This worked!!!!

You should finish the gpt option first. What do we do after the bcdboot command?

2 weeks ago I had 4 volumes, I managed to start the PC when I had problems, but today it happened again and now I only have 1 volume, all the videos I've seen I have no success with CMD, any code always fails, is that the problem is inside the pc and i need to open it? I have a project with more than 100 hours, I don't want to lose it!

Life saver. Ubuntu did shit with my laptop. After hours or RU-vid I found your video. Thanks a ton , finally I can sleep in peace ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️subbed

Saved my PC. Thanks dude.. 😊

Hello sir ... My pc is Sony vio 64bit, and has windows 7 ultimate. I have tried to fast my pc by changing some settings taken from youtube videos. For example, I unchecked the (remote regestry) and stopped (windows update) and made the processor on 2 instead of 1. So, unfortunately the pc couldn't boot or reboot anymore. Again, I took some fixing steps from youtube, because (start repair) and (restore the pc) couldn't be done anymore. I found that the only way that can fix the problem is to use the CMD attempt . So, I did the correct steps, but the system cannot recognize the path ( D:> cd /windows/system32/config), that I never could fix my pc. Would you please, help me to fix the problem? Even if by remote assistant or whatever you prefer ? I really appreciate all your effort in advance. Eng. Wissam , from Iraq>

I have 1 fat32’s in my volumes for 3 and 4, does it matter which one I do?

I have 2 FAT32 partitions and I am confused which one to chose

4 days have been stuck on copying files done everything and nothing's working. My local disk c is on the disply but no fs. And windows is only in dir x:

I mistaken delwte my os at local c . Now all what you have done I can't get to command prompt. Please help me

Thank you so much man I solved it like after 1 week tysm

IT WORKS OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH

doest work with me, keeping stuck when loading windows, please help !!

amazing job with this thank you

I have 4 FAT32 in volume 4 , 9 , 10 , and 11 Which one is it ?

THANKS MAN! YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER 🙏🏽

Great video. Right to the point.

Using USB bootable n going to command prompt As I can't get into windows or fix windows using automatic trait as that is not gone. That why I using though USB but Diskpart don't work through it Diskpart has encountered an error the remote procedure call failed. See the system event log for more information. And can't install windows due to an error

Can i make partition Z more than 100mb like 1000mb can i?i changed to fast boot but still very slow to boot compare to before my computer can't boot

Hi. The tutorial is great. I was having doubt, what if I want to boot Kali Linux from by bootable Disk partion (I'm my case F:\ and system reserved letter Z. What should I type? I don't want to overwrite windows configured files and keep Kali Linux for dual boot.)

Hi, Thanks for the great video. I have managed to get a bit further down the track but am stuck at bfsvc error: could not open bcd template store status = [c000015c]. I have formatted the fat32 partition but get the same error. I hope you can help with this. I can't seem to get any info on the status = [c000015c], so I am stumped..

Thank you very much You saved my life

When i did this command at 4:53 it still said failure when attempting to copy boot files what do i do now?

😭I literally Cried when this worked.. Thank you so much you are a Life saver. I have watched many videos, but this really worked. Thank you thank you🤟

still gives me the error " failure when attempting to copy boot files"

There is no any files in my c: disk or d: I can't fix this problem What happen If I try to install linux rather than fix this problem Is it possible? Help me plz

In my case I have 2 recovery partitions and I can't enable reagentc or boot into safe mode. And when I type bootrec it says it's a invalid command. Please help. Edit: also advance startup only shows UEFI and doesn't have any other options.

I think the text-to-speech system is amazing, which program is that?

Sir, you saved my day!

Sorry nothing seems to work still have boot error .Thanks for trying to help.

Thank you so much youtube deleted my comments ,than you thank you thank you