Chapter 14. Using Recovery Tools

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Manipulating the boot process with bcdedit

Creating a system repair disk with recdisc

Checking and repairing disks with chkdsk

Repairing BitLocker drives with repair-bde

Manipulating the Boot Process with bcdedit

The boot configuration data (BCD) is used to store information that lets the computer know how to boot into Windows 7. Chapter 5, “Manipulating Disks,” introduced bcdedit in the section that showed how to create a Windows 7 bootable VHD file, “Modifying the BCD Store for the VHD File.” This section digs into bcdedit a little deeper by showing how you can use it to view and modify the BCD data store. As a reminder, ...

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