Root Access

What is the BCD store?
The Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store contains boot configuration parameters and controls how the operating system is started in Microsoft® Windows Vista® and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating systems. These parameters were previously in the Boot.ini file (in BIOS-based operating systems) or in the nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) entries (in Extensible Firmware Interface–based operating systems). You can use the Bcdedit.exe command-line tool to affect the Windows® code which runs in the pre-operating system environment by adding, deleting, editing, and appending ent…

Bob

4:14 PM

it's a hidden/system file or something -_-

RoXaS

yeah there it is

Bob

ok. what you want to do is copy the file somewhere else

RoXaS

its just BCD

BCD.LOG

Bob

like copy C:\Boot\BCD C:\BCD.BACKUP

then go back to the installation wizard sitting there, continue through the keyboard/language settings, but don't click install now, click the 'repair your computer' link that should be there somewhere

RoXaS

help me a sec on the copy command

is it binary or text?

Bob

4:16 PM

binary

use xcopy if you can, it's a little less stupid

RoXaS

Copy /B BCD C:\BCD.backup will do the trick

Bob

yep, that should be fine

RoXaS

IU'm a little rusty onb that command

it failed

Bob

use xcopy :P

@RoXaS Did xcopy work?

xcopy /h BCD C:\BCD.backup

RoXaS

haha thx

i was struggling with that

Bob

4:21 PM

@allquixotic ready for you now, do you have a pubkey?

RoXaS

yeah

It worked

Bob

@RoXaS Ok. Next:

RoXaS

Oh fuck

Bob

6 mins ago, by Bob

then go back to the installation wizard sitting there, continue through the keyboard/language settings, but don't click install now, click the 'repair your computer' link that should be there somewhere

@RoXaS ?

RoXaS

I craated a folder that is named BCD.Backup

Bob

4:22 PM

o.O

does it contain BCD inside?

RoXaS

yeah

xD

But i got it working

and I check C: with dir

and the file is there

Bob

as long as you have a backup

RoXaS

i got like 2 now

Bob

next, go to 'repair your computer'

RoXaS

because I for got dir /a

Bob

4:23 PM

@RoXaS the more the merrier!

RoXaS

done

troubleshoot

Refresh your pc or Reset our pc or Advanced options

Bob

...oh god it's win8

RoXaS

:P

Bob

advanced options

I've only ever done this with 7 -_-

RoXaS

Restore / Image Recovery / Startup repair

or Command Propmt

allquixotic

4:25 PM

24 mins ago, by DemCodeLines

@Bob I appreciate the help, but I am not here for that long, so no need to mess up your stuff, at least right now ;)

Bob

@RoXaS startup repair

RoXaS

Its diagnosing and stuff

Bob

@allquixotic eh, might as well give you access if you want :P

Oliver Salzburg

wtf MS buys Mojang O__o

Bob

@RoXaS yea, leave it for a bit

hope it works -_-

allquixotic

4:25 PM

also, there's an OpenVPN AS Amazon EC2 Image in the community AMI list :D

RoXaS

Hehe me 2

Bob

if you want, you can read my saga

7

Q: How can I repair or install startup repair/system recovery after BCD corruption?

How should I go about repairing startup repair? Installing startup repair onto the hard drive, as if it was not originally there, would also fix this. In the hope that someone at a Windows-specific forum may have an idea, I've also posted this over at Microsoft Answers: http://answers.microsoft...

allquixotic

so if he ever needs this to actually work, I can fire up the image on a m2.medium spot instance for like a penny an hour

Bob

(btw, the answer is what we're gonna do after repair recreates BCD entries for you - because the repair entries, ironically enough, miss the recovery environment)

RoXaS

@Bob I am so unfamiliar with all this stuff

I wouldve never figured this out on my own

Thank you so much man

Bob

4:27 PM

@RoXaS heh, trial by fire is a great motivator :P

RoXaS

Hehe

"I believe in learning on the job"

Bob

I was pretty clueless about a day before that question :P

RoXaS

@Bob I'm a pretty broke ass student right now but I get salary in a week

Let me buy you a pizza

then

Bob

lol. don't worry about that

appreciate the thought, though

@allquixotic I really need to get EC2 figured out sometime

RoXaS

@Bob <- The first man in history to refuse free pizza

What kind of a superhero are you

Bob

4:30 PM

hey, at least wait until this actually works!

a lot of it is prayers and black magic :\

you can throw the same commands at it a dozen times, and somehow it works the last time

RoXaS

That is how programming works

You throw things against a wall and see what sticks

Bob

lol

RoXaS

I have actually made a script when I was drunk

Bob

^ I experienced the first followed by the second in quick succession recently.

The change to fix it? add a 50ms delay.

RoXaS

I still don't know how it works, but it's better than anything i;ve made so far and super fast

hehe oh god the timings

Try creating a FTP client from scratch in C

fuck all those timings

Bob

4:33 PM

Everything was event based; the delayed portion was on the render event handler... but it still needed an extra delay :S

@RoXaS ...good lord no

RoXaS

@Bob It worked untill we wanted simultaneous uploading

then it barfed

Bob

any luck with the repair?

RoXaS

Still repairing

Bob

ugh

there's a good chance it'll give you a nice failure

RoXaS

My laptop is slow as fuck

So i take comfort in that

That's why I want the clean install

Bob

4:35 PM

at which point you can try tossing a few rebuildbcds at it followed by the manual bcdedit fix followed by another startup repair

@RoXaS but you don't want to overwrite the existing one?

you might end up in a similar situation of one OS depending on a bootloader on the other drive :\

(UEFI fixes that nicely, but you don't have that)

RoXaS

@Bob Well the thing is that I'm interning at a large airline company and I use my own laptop to work on

Bob

ouch

RoXaS

And I kinda need it tomorrow

Bob

...

RoXaS

So I think I have backed up the most important shit

Bob

4:37 PM

ok

in other words

fix this ASAP

:P

would've been better as a weekend project

RoXaS

I like to live dangerously

Well the internship actually costs me more money than it gets me

Bob

heh. I was adding an SSD cache the morning before an afternoon class/presentation needing the same laptop :D

RoXaS

So I work in the weekends

Bob

@RoXaS -_-

RoXaS

Yaay internships

So I work 7 days a week for very little pay

Bob

4:38 PM

what time is it over there anyway?

RoXaS

this was my first day off in 3 months

6:39

Bob

o.O

RoXaS

pm

Bob

@RoXaS is that AM or PM?

ah. where are you? sounds like Europe

RoXaS

The netherlands

Bob

4:39 PM

ah

we have quite the spread here :P

RoXaS

@Bob Where are you then?

Bob

@RoXaS The land of kangaroos, emus, and drop bears ;)

RoXaS

Imaginationland?

Bob

xD

Australia

RoXaS

I figured

Bob

4:42 PM

any luck with the repair?

might be time to jump to the more drastic measures

RoXaS

Still attempting

Bob

I can't remember how long it takes to finish

RoXaS

Do i need to get a preventive fire extinguisher?

Bob

couldn't hurt :P

RoXaS

I;m reading about some guy who had the computer run for 3.5 days

with startup repair

Bob

4:45 PM

yea, might give it a couple more mins, then cut it off

RoXaS

Brb i'm getting some food

I'm startving

allquixotic

@Bob there's exactly one thing bad about EC2: the price to have a box up 24/7 is way too high for the resources you get. ALL OTHER ASPECTS of EC2 are superior to or as good as any other hosting environment out there, including dedicated (their VM overhead is incredibly low, no clue how they do it)

if you don't need the box up 24/7, it's even the cheapest solution available

Bob

@allquixotic IIRC my biggest issue is the price of their persistent storage and data transfer.

@RoXaS When you get back, if the repair is still going, cancel it and try something else.

allquixotic

@Bob the storage prices are high but not abhorrently high unless you need terabytes. for program installs that don't deal with big datasets it's great

there's also S3 Reduced Redundancy which is priced more reasonably and has the reliability of approximately an enterprise-grade RAID10

whereas regular full redundancy S3 has the reliability of approximately an enterprise-grade RAID10 plus five separate copies of the array

there's also instance storage if you DGAF

RoXaS

back

any safe way to cancel this?

Bob

4:53 PM

eh... pull the plug/battery

not really a safe way

or you can try shutdown /s /t 00

allquixotic

@RoXaS ask it nicely; if it doesn't comply, use sudo or runas or GOOBY PLS (accordingly to your OS) ..... (ps this entire post is a joke)

RoXaS

well i made it stop

Bob

@allquixotic So, most *nixes, Windows and OS X? ;P

ChatBot John Cavil

HAMMERTIME!

RoXaS

its now booting into the usb

allquixotic

4:54 PM

@Bob GOOBY PLS is the sudo equivalent for LOL/Linux, which is the userspace implementation consisting entirely of lolcode that doesn't exist yet, but it will someday when I'm bored

RoXaS

@allquixotic I asked it nicely, and it worked.. that voice recognition is really working for them

Hennes

Hmm.

112brabant.nl/news/…

allquixotic

Y GOOBY is the ilol (Interactive LOLcode REPL) command to see the stack trace

Bob

@RoXaS You back in the command prompt?

allquixotic

OH GOD THE NETHERLANDERS ARE TAKING OVER!

2

Bob

4:56 PM

@Hennes Translation?

RoXaS

@Hennes I dont know how this is relevant

Hennes

Someone steals and rides of on a scooter.
Employee hunts him down with a car.
1-0 for justice

allquixotic

(there are two of them in here!)

Hennes

Somehow I feel bad for yellow "Yes, well done" when I read that

RoXaS

@allquixotic We breed quickly... Prostitution is very effective way to spread stuff

@Bob Aye

2

Hennes

4:57 PM

@allquixotic Weerstand is nutteloos! (resistance is futile!)

Bob

@RoXaS Oh god you even speak like @Hennes! :P

3

allquixotic

next thing you know, @RoXaS will be speaking to @Lindy_hop in Netherlandese (tm) and giving her instructions on how to conquer the world!

Bob

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=aye&room=118

RoXaS

@allquixotic shes my bottom bitch

Hennes

Lindy already thinks she is the queen of the world. :)

Bob

4:58 PM

(@Hennes says "Aye" like @JourneymanGeek says ";P", "lol" and "ahh".)

Hennes

ahh. ;_)

allquixotic

we need to start starring ayes like we star ahhs

RoXaS

@Bob What next matey?

Bob

@RoXaS Do you have a camera handy?

Hennes

Dinky-di Roxas :)

RoXaS

4:59 PM

@Bob I havent seen u use the work cunt once... you sure you are aussie?

Bob

because bcdedit is a pain to transcribe :\

@RoXaS I'm... not very traditional :P

RoXaS

@Bob Yeah sure

allquixotic

@Hennes what was the twitter url of your cat, again? twitter.com/Lindy_hop is actually a real human being whose attractiveness made me instantly, reflexively Ctrl+W @_@

Hennes

Lindy

@kitten_Lindy

My name is Lindy Hop. I was born 29-4-2011. On 2-8-2011 I found a new home, thanks to the local animal shelter.

282 tweets, 10 followers, following 0 users

RoXaS

@allquixotic I google it too

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