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Why does Advanced options window have only one option: UEFI Firmware Settings?

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Thursday, December 27, 2018 9:53 PM

Could anyone offer a tip on why the Advanced options window have only one:

Instead of the usual 6:

Hong

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Friday, December 28, 2018 5:55 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote

Hi Hong,

Thanks for your reply.

We need fix the BCD first: 

1. We could boot from a installation media and then choose “Repair your computer” to boot into Recovery mode.

2. run the following command line to fix the boot configuration.

** Bootrec /Rebuildbcd**
** Bootrec /fixboot**
** Bootrec /Fixmbr**

3. Then retry enable WinRE.

Best regards,

Yilia 

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Friday, December 28, 2018 12:49 AM

Kindly check the BIOS settings.

If UEFI start ONLY is configured, Windows 10 will install with UEFI support.

S.Sengupta,Microsoft MVP Windows and Devices for IT, Windows Insider MVP


Friday, December 28, 2018 2:06 AM

Hi Hong,

Please kindly check this thread may be helpful to you: 

https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/34131-windows-10-troubleshoot-advanced-options-missing.html

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Best regards,

Yilia 

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Friday, December 28, 2018 2:41 AM

Thank you all.

BIOS allows both UEFI and legacy modes.

When I run reagentc /enable, I get the following:

C:\windows\system32>reagentc /enable
REAGENTC.EXE: Unable to update Boot Configuration Data.

Hong


Friday, December 28, 2018 2:46 AM

Addition information:

C:\windows\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

    Windows RE status:         Disabled
    Windows RE location:
    Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: aaa6e612-def0-11e8-9a93-cf8555b691e0
    Recovery image location:
    Recovery image index:      0
    Custom image location:
    Custom image index:        0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

Hong


Friday, December 28, 2018 4:17 PM

Thank you, Yilia.

To put a long store shore, I migrated Windows 10 from one SSD to another SSD, and did some BCD fix after the migration, and everything appears to be normal now.  Here is what I get after Shift + Restart:

Hong


Friday, December 28, 2018 6:18 PM | 1 vote

That does not seem correct to me because Advanced is not showing the recovery and repair options provided by the Windows Recovery Environment. Assuming that the Recovery partition is intact somewhere on your drive(s) you need to tell Windows where to find it.

First you need to run diskpart to find the disk and partition numbers of the recovery partition.

Then use ReAgentC and insert those numbers in a command like this to set the Windows RE path location: 

   reagentc /setreimage /path \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition5\Recovery\WindowsRE

You then need to force Windows to write a new ReAgent.xml file

   ReAgentC /Disable
   Ren ReAgent.xml  ReAgentOLD.xml
   ReagentC /Enable

If that is all done correctly you should be back to the "usual 6" you showed in your first post.


Friday, December 28, 2018 10:25 PM

Thank you for the tip. I don't think there is a recovery partition now.   What should I do in this case?

Hong