{"id":92,"date":"2020-05-22T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/207.6.222.179\/?p=92"},"modified":"2020-05-22T12:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:46:27","slug":"how-to-fix-the-requested-system-device-cannot-be-found-on-windows-7-8-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"How to fix &#8220;The requested system device cannot be found&#8221; on Windows 7\/8\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the error &#8220;the requested system device cannot be found&#8221; occurs when you try to perform Bootrec operations using a USB installation media, it may not find the correct system partition, which causes bootrec \/rebuildbcd device cannot be found Windows 10 issue. You may try this method to set the correct partition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 1. Boot from a UEFI Windows 10 installation (CD\/DVD\/USB) disk, and in&nbsp;<strong>Advanced options<\/strong>page, choose&nbsp;<strong>Command Prompt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 2. Input\u00a0<strong>diskpart<\/strong>\u00a0and press\u00a0<strong>Enter<\/strong>\u00a0to list all partitions and for you to identify EFI partition. Please note that EFI partition is formatted as FAT32 type<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 3. Input&nbsp;<strong>select volume 3<\/strong>&nbsp;and press&nbsp;<strong>Enter<\/strong>&nbsp;(here volume 3 is the volume number of the EFI partition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 4. Input assign&nbsp;<strong>letter=m<\/strong>&nbsp;to assign a letter to the EFI partition and press&nbsp;<strong>Enter<\/strong>. You may replace m with a letter of your choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 5. Input&nbsp;<strong>exit<\/strong>&nbsp;and press&nbsp;<strong>Enter<\/strong>&nbsp;to exit diskpart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 6. Then type the following commands in Command Prompt and press&nbsp;<strong>Enter<\/strong>&nbsp;after every command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>cd \/d m:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>bootrec \/fixboot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 7. Input&nbsp;<strong>ren BCD BCD.bak<\/strong>&nbsp;and press Enter to change the name of BDC file from BCD to BCD.bak file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 8. Input&nbsp;<strong>bcdboot c:\\Windows \/l en-us \/s m: \/f ALL<\/strong>&nbsp;and press&nbsp;<strong>Enter<\/strong>&nbsp;to recreate BCD. If the letter you&#8217;ve assigned for the EFI partition earlier is not m, then change it in this command accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 9. Input exit to close Command Prompt and restart your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This solution has helped many people resolve the error the requested system device cannot be found Windows 7\/8\/10 and rebuild BCD, especially for people who use a USB installation media to rebuild MBR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the error &#8220;the requested system device cannot be found&#8221; occurs when you try to perform Bootrec operations using a USB installation media, it may not find the correct system partition, which causes bootrec \/rebuildbcd device cannot be found Windows 10 issue. You may try this method to set the correct partition. Step 1. 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