Chapter 14. Using Recovery Tools
This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:
• Manipulating the boot process with bcdedit
• Creating a system repair disk with recdisc
• Checking and repairing disks with chkdsk
• Repairing BitLocker drives with repair-bde
Manipulating the Boot Process with bcdedit
The boot configuration data (BCD) is used to store information that lets the computer know how to boot into Windows 7. Chapter 5, “Manipulating Disks,” introduced bcdedit in the section that showed how to create a Windows 7 bootable VHD file, “Modifying the BCD Store for the VHD File.” This section digs into bcdedit a little deeper by showing how you can use it to view and modify the BCD data store. As a reminder, ...
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