Windows 10 recovery drive (usb stick) breaks after first use

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I have some problems with my Windows 10 bootsector (I think I wiped it by accident). I created USB stick repair drive and I am able to go to console to try some stuff. However, if I try command bootrec /RebuildBcd and reboot my PC recovery disk itself doesn't work anymore. I'm seeing message "The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors. Error code: 0xc000000f". Is there anything I can do to prevent recreating recovery drive every 10 min ?

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asked on Super User Apr 2, 2016 by Maciej Szpakowski • edited Sep 25, 2017 by Journeyman Geek

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First and MAIN thing - there are two ways of booting USB on UEFI firmware!

For repairing UEFI boot select "USB..UEFI" boot for booting USB! (ha-ha how many boots in one sentence)

Explicit commands for repairing boot:

1. bootsect.exe /nt60 ALL /force /MBR (you don't need this on UEFI)

For UEFI:

2a. bcdboot.exe N:\windows /s M: /f UEFI 

Obviously N: drive is where Windows is installed

M: drive is EFI System on HDD

For BIOS:

2b. bcdboot N:\Windows /s M: /f BIOS

M: is active partition on HDD

answered on Super User Apr 3, 2016 by snayob

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