[REQUEST] How to replace corrupt boot files manually?

[Mick]

Exactly so, but how is it done?

I'm not honestly sure I can add much to what I've already said. There's some info here but doing this on a modern system is as others have said, pointless, and I'm not even sure it's possible - I say that because personally i haven't actually tried it on anything newer than probably XP.

 

[Haroon92]

I'm not honestly sure I can add much to what I've already said. There's some info here but doing this on a modern system is as others have said, pointless, and I'm not even sure it's possible - I say that because personally i haven't actually tried it on anything newer than probably XP.

ok, i got you. Thanks anyways.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Yeah... if another OS cannot read the data, it's gone. You've got larger issues. If the files are encrypted with the OS encryption, the boot loader being replaced will often break that encryption too.

There is almost no reason to "fix" a boot loader anymore. This is Windows XP era stuff, it's barely applicable to Windows 10.

 

[nerd2u]

This is why you never tinker with a drive until you have a complete copy and then you work on the copy.

Spent many years doing digital forensics and rule number one was always never work on the original.

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[Haroon92]

So would all the product key data be copied as well?

 

[Porthos]

So would all the product key data be copied as well?

What do you mean product key? Explain.

 

[Haroon92]

windows genuine key that was purchased to activate the OS.

 

[Porthos]

windows genuine key that was purchased to activate the OS.

What Windows version, There are different ways for this.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Proper disk images have all data on the disk. This includes the activation information. No, the imaged disk won't work in another PC.

 

[Markverhyden]

Because the automated softwares don't work.

Those tools do work. And when they fail they fail because the problem is not what you think it is. At any rate manually copy and pasting files is a waste of time with modern OS's. The objective over the years is to make OS's safer, more secure and reliable, not the other way around. Making it easy to copy and paste system level files does just the opposite. So they all have a variety of systems in place to make this very difficult if not impossible.

Apple implemented System Integrity Protection with 10.11 almost 3 years ago. Linux has Security Enhanced Linux which was introduced some 20 years ago. I'm sure Micro$oft is doing work on similar tools.

 

[Haroon92]

Those tools do work. And when they fail they fail because the problem is not what you think it is. At any rate manually copy and pasting files is a waste of time with modern OS's. The objective over the years is to make OS's safer, more secure and reliable, not the other way around. Making it easy to copy and paste system level files does just the opposite. So they all have a variety of systems in place to make this very difficult if not impossible.

Apple implemented System Integrity Protection with 10.11 almost 3 years ago. Linux has Security Enhanced Linux which was introduced some 20 years ago. I'm sure Micro$oft is doing work on similar tools.

noted

 

[glennd]

I'm sure Micro$oft is doing work on similar tools.

Microsoft is adding advertisements to their start menu.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Microsoft is adding advertisements to their start menu.

If that's all you see happening with Windows 10, you're being willfully blind. And thus far these "advertisements" aren't much more than tips on how to actually use your machine properly. Similar "suggestions" have been in OSX for years as well.

That's what it means to have an intelligent system, it makes decisions for you...which means more and more everything will be controlled by the companies that make them. The number of decisions made for you on a windows based platform are minuscule compared to what happens on your smart phone.

The time to be upset about this was about 15 years ago. Now is too little, too late... we have no legislative body on the planet with the will to address digital property rights.

 

[Markverhyden]

Microsoft is adding advertisements to their start menu.

LOL!!! They are getting so annoying now. Setup a new laptop for a neighbor few days ago. W10 Pro. Since it was Pro I was hoping to escape that moronic, cheery audio monologue that comes up at first run, no such luck. Apple had a similar thing back when OS X first came out but it was worse.

 

[Porthos]

cheery audio monologue that comes up at first run

I can live with Cortana. It tells me when it is time to walk back over to the computer to get back to work. As for the suggestions and other annoyances, I have a process I go thru and shut off and customise the installation anyway.

 

[GTP]

I just setup my new gamer. Had to use Winspy 10 'cause with an 8th Gen CPU and B360 chipset mobo "We no support Window 7!" "You upgrade for Window 10!"

"Tweaked" it with DoNotSpy, Blackbird, Remove Spy Crap From Windows 10 (yeah, that's what it's called), O&O ShutUP and others, went too far, broke it, R & R'd it another 6 times before I found the right balance between "go to Hell Microsoft" and "I can live with that sh*t if I have to!"

Now got it to a stable point where it's functional.
Killed and buried Cortana, (I cannot stand that awful Cortana voice!) stopped/blocked/removed a lot of the other crap....


Using Win 10 Pro so the Group Policy Editor came in very handy!

I guess I'll have to go through the whole rigmarole again after the next major update...