{"id":301,"date":"2018-01-31T23:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T07:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/?p=301"},"modified":"2018-01-31T23:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T07:46:52","slug":"efi-partition-corrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"EFI partition corrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resized EFI partition today, and failed to enter windows. I got this error message: <\/p>\n<p><code>the boot configuration data for your pc is missing or contains errors<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I tried several methods to repair it but none of them helps. Then I realized that the EFI partition may be corrupted.<br \/>\nSo, I deleted the EFI partition completely and regenerated one with the tutorial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightforums.com\/threads\/windows-8-cant-start-due-to-missing-efi-partition.52515\/\">here<\/a> by genet.<br \/>\nThe steps are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>first, make sure you have an unallocated space for EFI and allocate other unused space.<br \/>\nBoot with a windows installation media and enter the command prompt<br \/>\nrun the following commands to create EFI partition:<\/p>\n<p><code>diskpart<\/code><br \/>\n<code>list disk<\/code>    #note the disk number where you are going to create EFI<br \/>\n<code>select disk <strong>n<\/strong><\/code>    # n is the number you got from the previous command<br \/>\n<code>list partition<\/code>    #you can see that there is no efi partition yet<br \/>\n<code>create partition efi<\/code><br \/>\n<code>format quick fs=fat32<\/code><br \/>\n<code>list partition<\/code>    #you can see your new efi partition now<br \/>\n<code>list volume<\/code>    #note the volume letter where your windows is installed<br \/>\n<code>exit<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now, run the following commands to generate boot datas to EFI partition:<\/p>\n<p><code>bcdboot <strong>X<\/strong>:\\windows<\/code>    # n is the letter you got from the previous command<\/p>\n<p>Reboot the computer now and you should be able to enter your windows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resized EFI partition today, and failed to enter windows. I got this error message: the boot configuration data for your pc is missing or contains errors I tried several methods to repair it but none of them helps. Then I realized that the EFI partition may be corrupted. So, I deleted the EFI partition completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actinia.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}