Hi,
I have a dell inspiron N5050 with windows 7 home premium. Since installing a windows update I have been unable to log on to windows normally without it freezing. Safe mode still works however so I tried a restore point but it still froze when I try to log in. I don't have any other restore points so I wanted to restore it to the way it was when I first bought it hopefully by using the recovery partition. But when I press F8 on start up and click on repair your computer it just loads windows normally. I then tried to use the recovery cd but get the message winload.exe is corrupt or cannot be found. So having looked around the internet I found something to do with the bcdedit being wrong or needs to be changed so I wondered if anybody could tell me what was wrong as I don't really understand it.
This is what my bcdedit shows:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-us
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {cdcabf37-161d-11e1-8e21-98b9bb36d186}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {572bcd56-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d}
device ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume2]\Recovery\WindowsRE\winre.wim,{ad6c7bc8-fa0f-11da-8ddf-0013200354d8}
path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
description Windows Recovery Environment
osdevice ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume2]\Recovery\WindowsRE\winre.wim,{ad6c7bc8-fa0f-11da-8ddf-0013200354d8}
systemroot \windows
nx OptIn
detecthal Yes
winpe Yes
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {9aea4c91-c7d1-11e1-b4b4-9439e5e7c4ef}
device ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume2]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{9aea4c92-c7d1-11e1-b4b4-9439e5e7c4ef}
path \windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Recovery Environment
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume2]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{9aea4c92-c7d1-11e1-b4b4-9439e5e7c4ef}
systemroot \windows
nx OptIn
winpe Yes
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-us
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {9aea4c91-c7d1-11e1-b4b4-9439e5e7c4ef}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \windows
resumeobject {cdcabf37-161d-11e1-8e21-98b9bb36d186}
nx OptIn
detecthal Yes
Resume from Hibernate
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identifier {cdcabf37-161d-11e1-8e21-98b9bb36d186}
device partition=C:
path \windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale en-US
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filedevice partition=C:
filepath \hiberfil.sys
debugoptionenabled No
Windows Memory Tester
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identifier {memdiag}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
EMS Settings
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identifier {emssettings}
bootems Yes
Debugger Settings
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identifier {dbgsettings}
debugtype Serial
debugport 1
baudrate 115200
RAM Defects
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identifier {badmemory}
Global Settings
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identifier {globalsettings}
inherit {dbgsettings}
{emssettings}
{badmemory}
Boot Loader Settings
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identifier {bootloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}
{hypervisorsettings}
Hypervisor Settings
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identifier {hypervisorsettings}
hypervisordebugtype Serial
hypervisordebugport 1
hypervisorbaudrate 115200
Resume Loader Settings
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identifier {resumeloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}
Device options
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identifier {9aea4c92-c7d1-11e1-b4b4-9439e5e7c4ef}
description Ramdisk Options
ramdisksdidevice partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi
Device options
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identifier {ad6c7bc8-fa0f-11da-8ddf-0013200354d8}
description Ramdisk Device Options
ramdisksdidevice partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi