boot - Computer stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool Data"

I'm trying to troubleshoot this problem, I've had it happen before and I fixed it but nothing seems to be working.

My assumption is that since I can boot off the windows recovery disk this is purely an issue with corruption of MBR/BCD/Boot somethingrather... (my computer crashed hard just before this problem started...)

First thing I did was tried booting into the recovery console and running...

bootrec.exe /fixboot <- no effect
bootrec.exe /fixmbr  <- no effect
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd <- no windows installations found

Weird.. so I check and low and behold there is no C:\boot folder at all...

Well, after trying quite a few things (mostly trying to manually rebuild the BCD) I 'fixed' that by setting the windows partition active and running the command over.

Now rebuildbcd works.. but I'm still stuck on the verifying dmi pool screen. I booted back in to the recovery console and it said there were issues with startup and it could fix them, I let it try... still stuck at DMI pool screen.

Basically, I've tried everything I know how to do, nothing's working. Any ideas?

EDIT: Okay so it appears that my "Boot manager is missing or corrupt" - no doubt due to the fact that my boot folder was totally wiped out...