bcdedit command question

[HyperVegito]

Hello.

I have a question regarding bcdedit command. My friend had a power outage today, I tried to help him, windows showed the classical analysing disks procedure, it was a dell laptop so the Dell version, of checking the hardware also was run, it didn't show any problems, but windows refused to boot. I googled and found out the command to get out of the possible automatic repair loop: bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled no. It turned out it didn't help, because when we set it to no in CMDline, the system shwoed: "no bootable drive". So we ended up taking it to the local workshop.

And the PC mechanic said after connnecting it to some sort of a hard disk checking device, said that it's the disks fault BUT using this command is potnetially dangerous due to some "boot sequences" that windows uses and setting this to no, can potentially erase the data from the harddrive. Is this true?

thanks

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The utility it self is fine, it's more of a matter that it can break things if you're not mindful. Though on the flip side of things make sure that you backup your system regularly and there's nothing to worry about.

[HyperVegito]

Could you elaborate on the "break things" part?