Is there any way to fix this? Can I rebuild the EFI partition and make it bootable? It is my kid's PC and I'll be a sad dad if I have to tell him I borked his whole system during an 'upgrade' Here, I discovered that I think I selected the option to 'Image Selected Disks' to create an image of my system drive, instead of 'Backup Windows' which I somehow didn't see. I then went to restore the image from Macrium: blue screen again. Reset BIOS to factory defaults: same blue screen.įeeling confident since I had an image of the known-good drive, I installed a clean copy of Windows 10 on the drive to see if it was a hardware or BIOS issue. I went back into BIOS and reversed the changes I had just made: same blue screen. Save changes and exit: the system failed to boot at all, blue screen suggesting I insert recovery media. The system worked, so I thought I was all good.Ī couple of days later, I was in BIOS and saw that 'Resize BAR Enabled?' was not active, so I enabled it, turning off 'Compatibility Support Mode' and turning on 'Above 4G Encoding' in the process.

I thought I was being smart before some upgrades, created an image of my system drive with Macrium, and went about the upgrades (installing a larger NVME drive, converting it to the boot drive). I think I selected 'Image Selected Disk' and not 'Backup Windows.' Can I save this? Rebuild my EFI Partition? TL DR - I tried to back up my system using Macrium Reflect (free, ver8.1).

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