The other day at a customer I had the following problem
One of their physical machines had a problem starting. When trying to boot it went straight to System Recovery Options… not good
I tried all of the alternatives such as Safe boot, Last known good etc to get it to boot… no such luck 🙂
After some research I found the tip to rebuild the boot records using
bootrec /rebuildbcd. When I tried this I got the following information:
Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while… Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0 The operation completed successfully.
So the solution here was to remove the BCD store and then rebuild it like this…
First we back up the BCD Store:
bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup
Then we need to change change attributes on bcd folder in order to change it
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
… and then we rename the bcd store to be able to replace it
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
… and last but not least we recreate it
bootrec /rebuildbcd
Hopefully everything is ok and we get something like this:
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
[1] C:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes<Y>/No<N>/All<A>:
Which we respond Yes to and then reboot the computer
Links
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_install/total-identified-windows-installations-0/52359f87-de4a-41dc-b0c3-cc275e1d9fbf
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/01acc1c7-cea6-429d-91ac-9159f3e7d855/windows-server-2008-r2-boots-into-system-recovery-options-after-system-power-offon?forum=winservergen
People like you deserve a big applause and appreciation for such helping posts on internet. Thank you very much for sparing so much of your time to post everything in details and step by step reference. Its awesome.