Yeah I am almost to the give up point, however it was this final "stairing down the barrel" desperation that made me seek out some other expert eyes after finding the very similar post here (although that one was booting making it more strait forward). I should also add some situation context around the scenario here:
- The Bitlocker mention is a corporate requirement based on the data I interact with, I just mentioned it because that's what killed WRE of which I never addressed post encrypt to re-enable WRE. Which had WRE been properly setup with checkpoints, this likely would have been a trivial fix after recovering from the BCD issue whatever update caused via a quick reversion of all updates and sys state. BitLocker is a complete non-issue currently as I completely decrypted it for this issue in PE CMD (to keep from typing the recovery key on every PE boot to unlock the drive more than anything).
- My user data is also a non-issue and I have it all which is actually stream version synced up constantly to a local SMB server in my house. No worries here.
The real crux of the problem is my applications and the OS configuration. I have some keys and PK certificates for a lot of software, of which chasing down each of them with the vendors and management teams to reclaim the orphaned keys is a unreal pain. The configuration tuning Ive done to this point is also a significantly large burn. Totally doable if I have to rebuild scorched earth, but will take more time than it took me to build this workstation as it was, which took me the greater part of 2 Months to finesse it to the final tuned state it was in before these updates blew it up. So it really is down to time investment recovery only. I know 100% there is nothing wrong with the system outside of whatever damage these updates did to the OS and BCD, which blows my mind how much worse Windows 10 is to troubleshoot start issues, at least for me, so was looking for hopeful help.
