[Solved] T440s unbootable after recovery

Hi all

I have a laptop of lenovo T440s, whose mother has been replaced a few months ago.

Today, I want to do a clean install (windows 8) using the recovery USB I created before the replacement of the motherboard (note that I already used it and it worked before changing the Board of Directors).

It goes through various stages, delete files and create the partitions, but when it's actually the computer is not able to boot to the hard drive. I have the following messages:

Intel (R) Boot agent Ge v1.5.43 copyring (C) 1997-2013, Intel corporation

... during initialization and linking...

PXE - E61 - Media test failure, check cable

PXE - M0F - boot agent intel coming out

(looks like so he attempts to start on the pci lan)

Then he returned to the start menu where I have the choice between:

ATA HDD0

PCI LAN

If I select the first item, nothing happens, and the LAN PCI gives the above error message.

I tried to reset the bios default settings, but it did not help. So I wonder if it has something to do with some change to the ID of the motherboard, bios version...

I also launched the lenovo fast storage device test to check the hard drive, and everything was ok.

So if you have any inputs or suggestions that I could try, I would be very gratefull

Thank you!

Edit: problem solved, I had to change a bios option in UEFI (the new motherboard has been set default to legacy, spoil the whole recovery process)

I finally solved the problem.

I spent a few hours trying to repair the bcd with different methods described on the web using /RebuildBcd, Bcdboot Bootrec and also to define the good partition as active. However, none of the methods worked as I always had several error message telling me that it is not possible to access the material (or "failure when you try to copy files from a startup." after bcdboot for example).

After that I realized that the new motherboard default settings have been set to "Legacy" for the boot mode. I spent to UEFI, then went to the recovery (with new partitioning) process and it was ok.

I hope this will help others, avoiding slowing trying to solve the dcb in the command prompt (actually I don't know if it could have been corrected as well...)

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