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ben888
Copper Contributor
Apr 11, 2020

Accidentally deleted 16mb MI reserved partition

I accidentally deleted 16 MB Microsoft reserved partition. PC didn't Boot after then. It was stuck without booting saying "unable to mount boot volume". I somehow managed to fix it by rebuildbcd. And ...
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ben888
Copper Contributor
Apr 11, 2020
So, should I worry that I don't have it now? It's showing unallocated!
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HotCakeX
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Apr 11, 2020
If it's working then don't bother but next time make make sure you clean install Windows fomr a USB and on the installation screen delete all the partitions belonging to Windows and let them be created again.
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    ben888
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 11, 2020
    I've a backup of my gpt partition table. Will it help to recover that deleted partition? If not, why?
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      HotCakeX
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      Apr 12, 2020
      I'm not sure.

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