How to point BCDEDIT to the BCD when booting from USB

Question

_{Monday, June 12, 2017 10:52 AM}

I am working on an HP 800 G1 running Win 10 Pro with viral infection.  It boots to Windows and displays a locked window stating that the PC is stolen (which is is not - has been running fine for 6 months after a clean install). I am not able to get away from that screen as kb/mouse and remote connections are ineffective. When I press the power switch I see Windows shutting down normally.  I have run the disk through Bitdefender and Panda (with SDD mounted on another machine) which found a few issues and deleted all they could.

By Pressing Esc I am able to get to a system recovery menu that allows me to press F11 and boot off a USB pen drive containing Win 10.  I can then get to a command prompt where I can type BCDEDIT with a view to getting into Safe mode. But my efforts are rewarded with
"The boot configuration data store could not be opened.  The requested system device cannot be found."

I can see the SSD Windows partition listed as E:\ and the system partition listed as C:\

So the question is how can I boot into Safe mode to enable me to examine Task Scheduler and startup options, and is there a better way of killing whatever is launching this pesky window ?

Thanks.

Thanks.

All replies (1)

_{Monday, June 12, 2017 8:38 PM}

Hello,

This should be an option with bcdedit /store <path to BCD file>

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

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