Win 7 boots straight to boot edit menu


  1. Posts : 4
    windows 8 64bit
       #1

    Win 7 boots straight to boot edit menu


    I am working on a friends borked laptop. It no longer boots to the operating system. Instead, it drops to a boot menu editor, as seen below.



    I don't know much about boot menu editing in windows, and there should only be one OS, Win 7.

    If I hit escape, this screen comes up, but I can't select anything. the blurry line says Windows 7 incidentally.



    I've never gotten it to boot so I don't even know what sort of mess awaits me once the OS loads. Any help would be appreciated.

    EDIT: After leaving it on the screen above, it magically turned into this screen below. Only while I can move the highlight bar to any option, return doesn't send me anywhere.
    Last edited by EvilWayz; 30 Jan 2016 at 08:29. Reason: additional information
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  2. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #2

    Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
    Do you have an installation disk or flash media ?
    If so you might try startup repair a few times in a row,
    Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
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  3. Posts : 4
    windows 8 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    If I'm understanding this correctly I have to be inside windows to get this to work. I can access the bios, but when I hit enter, nothing happens. So while I can change the boot order so the cd drive is read first, I cant save and exit the bios so I can actually get to system repair.
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  4. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #4

    Hi,
    If you haven't tried a usb keyboard I might try it now :/
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  5. Posts : 4
    windows 8 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Not sure how this happened, the computer was used the day before yesterday with no problems.
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  6. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #6

    No telling but you might try either of these Linux recovery methods ?
    Lucid Puppy way to recover files from a non-bootable computer

    Emergency Kit - save your files from a dead OS
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  7. Posts : 4
    windows 8 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    I've actually got a backup, what i need is a working computer. If I could get it to read the cdrom I could always blow away everything and start over.
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  8. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #8

    Yep definitely weird
    I'd suggest powering off and removing the battery for a while
    After removing the battery hold down the power button for 1 minute
    Then just let it sit for an hour or over night.
    Start again the next day with fingers crossed :/
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