BCD File Error on Boot of installation ISO

[Kingells684]

Hey All,

Apologies if this has already been covered in another thread, I tried to have a sift but couldn't find anything I promise!

I've been getting a sporadic BCD file error message on my NTLite image I created (Both old from 2024 and newer ones I've created recently) on some devices most notably HP.

I've just deployed the attached XML to a new ISO I downloaded of W11 25H2 x64, anything obvious I'm doing that might cause it?

Attached is the error message too, I most recently also tried pushing the drivers to the boot.wim file too (Saw it as an option I haven't tried before) but still the same.

I am using a piece of software called 'easy2boot' for multi ISO support on the USB if that does add to the mix of madness, I will try and use RUFUS to build a USB stick purely off the ISO created to rule that out and report back.

Thanks for your help!

 

[garlin]

NTLite doesn't have any settings to change BCD. Windows Setup will run "bcdboot C:\Windows" at the end of the WinPE phase, before it reboots into the newly installed Windows.

Depending on what BCD settings were in the BIOS before the install, bcdboot might be causing problems when it adds an entry for the Windows boot manager.

If this is a single boot drive system, you can try deleting the current BCD settings from the BIOS, before starting the clean install.