When I power on the laptop I'm greeted with a blue screen that reads, among other things:
The operating system couldn't be loaded because the HAL is missing or
contains errors
Thankfully I can boot from a USB recovery drive, and have attempted several different fixes from those suggested in ">this post to rebuilding the BCD file from scratch as described here. All that changed were the startup errors, which varied from an issue with \Windows\System32\winloader.exe to exhibiting a completely black screen.
I would love to use something as simple as
bcdboot C:\Windows /s B: /f ALL
to fix things, but this fails with some error in comparing checksums.
I'm not sure, but I get the feeling that if someone posted the results of
bcdedit /enum
from a working BCD file with the same laptop (HP Stream 13), I could make my own match it and be set. I do not know though. Any suggestions aside from wiping the thing with a clean install? If it's any help, I also have a bootable Linux USB that could be used in the repair process. Many thanks for your suggestions!
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