Windows 11 Windows 11 boots to a black screen - missing BCD file?

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Bit of a long story/comedy of errors: My computer unexpectedly crashed during start up due to low battery, and Windows 11 no longer boots properly - I just get a black screen. The hardware itself is fine, and I'm successfully running Linux Mint on a USB drive right now, so I'm guessing some Windows boot file(s) has been corrupted?In the command line, I ran bootrec /fixboot, but I got the error that "Access is denied." I then tried bootrec /rebuildbcd, and it couldn't identify any Windows installations. In an attempt to rename the BCD file and build a new one instead, I tried running bcdedit /e

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