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July 12th, 2025 21:00
No Boot Device Found
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My Windows 10 laptop all of a sudden won't boot. (It's an SSD.) The message is that "No Boot Device Found". If I go into the UEFI settings, under Boot sequence, it is blank. There's no Windows Boot Manager. All UEFI setting are correct...UEFI is enabled, Secure boot is enabled, etc.
I made a Rufus Windows 10 USB boot stick, and it does show the SSD with all partitions, the way I used to see it. I don't know why UEFI doesn't see it, but the Rufus stick does.
The Rufus Windows stick does let me boot, and would let me reinstall Windows, but at this time, I don't want to do a clean reinstall.
I can also get to Support Assist, but none of the options there help.
Any ideas?
TIA
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July 23rd, 2025 22:25
I solved the problem last week, and thought I'd explain how so that others, it having the same problem, can try what I did.
It turns out that the BCD Template in C:\Windows\System32\Config folder was
corrupt, but I didn't find this out until after using diskpart to first try
and fix what I though was a corrupted UEFI partition.
But first, when I got home today, removed the suspect SSD, and connected
the SSD to a USB IDE & SATA external adapter ot my desktop. The SSD didn't
show up in Windows File Explorer, and when I launched Disk Management, Disk
Management said "Connecting to Virtual Disk Service forever. I had to
CTRL-Alt-Del out. As soon as I disconnected the external adapter, Disk
Management found all other drives. But because I was able to log on to the
SSD using the Media Creation Tool USB boot stick, and read the C: drive, I
still thought that the SSD was not dead, but the UEFI was corrupted, and
hoped that if I could fix it, I could boot the OS successfully.
I used a USB boot stick to get to Troubleshooting>Command Prompt. Once
there, I used diskpart>list disk>list vol to find the FAT32 partition which
held the boot manager. It had no volume letter, so I assigned it letter=V.
I exited diskpart, and a dir of V: showed and EFI folder, but there was no
Microsoft folder within. No luck so far. I thought I was getting somewhere.
Nonetheless, I logged back on to C:\ and issued command that I would have
issued if there was a Microsoft folder:
C:\>bcdboot C:Windows /s v: /f UEFI
I got the message, "BFSVC Error: Could not open the BCD template store.
Status = [000000f]".
I logged back to the Media Creation Tool drive, X:, and issued:
X:\sources>xcopy x:\windows\system32\config\BCD-Template c:\windows
\system32\config\BCD-Template
Overwrite all? yes
I did a dir on the EFI folder, and now there was a Microsoft folder, and
within was a Boot and Recovery directory.
Within the Boot directory was a BCD file.
While in v:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot>bcdedit showed the bcd configuration.
Encouraging.
I closed the command prompt, and was returned to the the Windows Recovery
Console, and I choose "Continue, Exit and continue to Windows 10".
The machine presented me with the Windows logon screen, and all was fine.
anne_droid
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July 13th, 2025 09:24
Hi
First find and record your BitLocker key, probably in your MS account.
Next choose HOW2 backup your data, either cloning or Linux Mint et al, before going for an "IN PLACE" install that does not delete your users folder, but probably will create a Windows.OLD directory with your stuff in it.
If in doubt please ask.
52e25005df3043d
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July 13th, 2025 20:23
I don't have a Microsoft account.
I do understand how to image.
I do understand how to reinstall in place, and a Windows.old will be created.
What I need is to fix a corrupted UEFI/BIOS, I don't need to reinstall Windows.
If interested, I have a detailed description of the issue, along with replies from others, on an NNTP newsgroup, if you read newsgroups (not moderated forums). The newsgroup is alt.comp.os.windows-10. The post is by Boris, dated July 9, 2025. The title is "No Boot Device Found". There are 83 replies.
Thanks for your reply.
anne_droid
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July 14th, 2025 10:15
Yet again I may be missing the point.