Sims 4 caused boot config data missing on PC?
My game suddenly froze and the entire computer wouldn’t do anything. When I restarted, this error came up after a screen about repairing C drive. No CC or mods. What’s the deal, how do I fix this and ...
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@sregs88 Your computer has UEFI (Unified Extended Firmware Interface). Right now the UEFI interfaces with the old BIOS (Basic Input-Output System). When the computer boots the BIOS in ROM will execute and read data stored in CMOS memory. The BIOS will perform some tests and then boot the computer from the device stored in CMOS. The BIOS is old and has limitations for today's hardware. The UEFI is essentially an updated BIOS. The Boot Configuration Data File tells your computer where to boot from (which mass storage device and its specifically size and location of data required to boot the computer). A software application will seldom access this data directly and should only use system calls to obtain data. Pressing Esc should have brought you into the UEFI editor where you should have been able to rebuild the data and unless you have a complicated boot configuration should be easy to recreate. Linux has a similar boot loader called GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) . This typically will be simple unless you has multiple partitions and/or operating systems. I have found that this issue is hardware related. Example I have several WD green hard drives that don't spin up fast enough during the boot process for many system boards. The solution is to increase the time out seek perimeter to allow more time for the drive to come up to speed. I have found that some systems will immediately crash or operate for some time before crashing. Some system boards don't configure themselves correctly for some new hardware and you need to do an update to the UEFI (or BIOS). I have found that going to the motherboard manufacturer's support site and updating the UEFI (or BIOS) can correct corruption issues. Boot failures are not common but do happen for a multiple of reasons. The computer probably crashed and tried to reboot and encountered some error. This is a low level issue and if it continues you will need to examine the computer hardware thoroughly. Is it a laptop that is over heating? If you have Windows 10 make sure it is up to date - there was an update that caused sporadic reboots. hth
Thanks for the info. Would you be able to tell me what I need to do in order to fix it?
Boot on the Installation media as mentioned in the message.
Click install. It should now tell you that it has found an existing installation and ask if you want to repair it. Choose this and it will repair the BCD information (Boot Configuration Data). If not there will be another Install option. Do NOT choose this but choose the Repair option at the bottom. Go from there.
If you are not comfortable doing this yourself take it to a shop and have them do the repair.
PS. BCD has nothing to do with UEFI apart from that UEFI reads information from it to pass control of the boot process to Windows.
- I don’t have the instillation media on hand.
You can download it from Microsoft If it is windows 10.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Click "Download tool now" and follow the description on how to create installation media.
Make sure to get the correct version 32bit or 64bit. Most likely the latter.
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