windows 10 bootrec fixboot access denied

Third time lucky including the “forcing access because it said the drive was being used and force an unmounting of the drive.” By this time too late to turn back I was thinking so it was a big “Y.” Success! Then continued with bootrec steps still getting “access denied” at the fixboot step nevertheless IT WORKED my pc STARTED UP. And then found myself facing the dreaded bits again. 1) What is the method to fix bootrec /fixboot access denied for MBR bootrec /fixmbr displays: The operation completed successfully bootrec /scanos Click enter to see (Scanning all disks for Windows installations Please wait, since this may take a while.Successfully scanned Windows installations.

And twice I didn’t proceed form there either. When using the command bootrec /fixboot it may display access denied. Hard part of course was the “WARNING ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK WILL BE REMOVED.” etc. am I sure about the EFI partition of which myself needed to be sure of and yes I googled and found how to check it. As in any programming of sorts we need to re-check eveything step by step (typo’s etc) even if scary and use a bit of common sense e.g.

Thank you Kapil – you are right on the ball.

Windows 10 bootrec fixboot access denied