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The thread discusses troubleshooting boot configuration issues on an MBR disk, with the original poster resolving it by converting to GPT and creating an EFI partition to enable UEFI boot. However, this change led to a new problem where the Windows Recovery Environment is missing, with essential recovery files and entries absent from several recovery-related directories. The overall sentiment reflects problem-solving steps, ending with a request for help to restore the Windows Recovery Environment.
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The boot manager entry should not point to a logical partition for the the partition parameter. It should point to a volume designator.

If the boot partition is the first volume on the disk it would be partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
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I fixed it in the end by converting my disk to GPT and writing a new EFI partition, which in the end means I can boot from UEFI which is nice.
I do however have a new issue: I'm missing the Windows Recovery Environment. F:\EFI\Microsoft\Recovery is empty except for a BCD store, which has no entries. C:\Recovery is empty and C:\Windows\System32\Recovery is too. How can I fix this?
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If the disk is GPT you would want an EFI boot partiton and not MBR
 

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The boot manager entry should not point to a logical partition for the the partition parameter. It should point to a volume designator.

If the boot partition is the first volume on the disk it would be partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
 

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Neemobeer said:
The boot manager entry should not point to a logical partition for the the partition parameter. It should point to a volume designator.

If the boot partition is the first volume on the disk it would be partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
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I fixed it in the end by converting my disk to GPT and writing a new EFI partition, which in the end means I can boot from UEFI which is nice.
I do however have a new issue: I'm missing the Windows Recovery Environment. F:\EFI\Microsoft\Recovery is empty except for a BCD store, which has no entries. C:\Recovery is empty and C:\Windows\System32\Recovery is too. How can I fix this?
 

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