Win7 installation boots into recovery partition?!

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  1. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
       #1

    Win7 installation boots into recovery partition?!


    Hi everyone, I will make this as clear as possible, thanks for helping/reading.

    My boot menu originally consists of Vista (C:\) and recovery partition (D:\). To install Win7, I shrank C and made a separate partition (W:\)

    Now I have 3 partitions: Vista (C:\), New Simple Volume (W:\), Recovery (D:\).

    I installed Windows 7 to the (W:\), and it reboots a few times during installation. My situation goes as follows:

    Initial installation---Reboot (1 of 3)---bypasses the boot menu and continues installation---Reboot (2 of 3)---boot menu shows up and I can choose to continue the installation of W7, or go to Vista. When I choose W7, it finishes installation---Reboot (3 of 3)---No boot menu is shown. Computer boots into recovery partition.

    Why is this happening? Repairing W7 or Vista using recovery partition doesn't help either. It basically just forms a loop by booting to the recovery every time.

    Interestingly, the only way I can start Vista again is by reinstalling Windows 7 and wait until the boot menu screen show up after the reboot (2 of 3).

    Thanks for your time everyone!
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  2. Posts : 13,354
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #2

    Did you try a Startup Repair?
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  3. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #3

    1. Check and see if the Recovery partition is marked Active.

    2. If so - mark Vista partition Active instead.



    3. Then install 7. (if 7 is already installed - run startup repair from 7 dvd 3 times)
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  4. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    SIW2 said:
    1. Check and see if the Recovery partition is marked Active.

    2. If so - mark Vista partition Active instead.



    3. Then install 7. (if 7 is already installed - run startup repair from 7 dvd 3 times)
    Thank you, as you can see, the recovery partition (D:\) is inactive.



    For some reason, I was unable to continue to the final reboot during Windows 7 installation. It just booted me to a recovery screen listing several options.

    Jonathan King said:
    Did you try a Startup Repair?
    Yes, instead of continuing the final installation step, that is actually where the reboot brought me to.

    These screenies show what I encountered.

    Startup Repair
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  5. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #5

    Interesting.

    You can get into Vista ok now.

    What does bcdedit show - and does 7 installation look as is if it's all there?

    Open an elevated cmd and type

    bcdedit

    then press enter.

    post the output.
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  6. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    I got into Vista by reinstalling win 7 and took advantage of the second reboot which shows the boot menu.

    Because if I let win7 continue its installation, it will reboot to the recovery partition.

    Having that said, the win7 installation is not completed as we speak. I guess it is a 'good' thing right now.


    Bcdedit:


    Script:
    Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
    Copyright (c2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

    C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit

    Windows Boot Manager
    --------------------
    identifier              {bootmgr}
    device                  partition=C:
    description             Windows Boot Manager
    locale                  en
    -US
    inherit                 
    {globalsettings}
    default                 {
    current}
    resumeobject            {6471a94f-c788-11de-9c45-fa43cb12239b}
    displayorder            {6471a950-c788-11de-9c45-fa43cb12239b}
                            {
    current}
                            {
    ntldr}
    toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
    timeout                 30
    resume                  No

    Windows Boot Loader
    -------------------
    identifier              {6471a950-c788-11de-9c45-fa43cb12239b}
    device                  partition=W:
    path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
    description             Windows 7
    locale                  en
    -US
    inherit                 
    {bootloadersettings}
    osdevice                partition=W:
    systemroot              \Windows
    resumeobject            
    {6471a94f-c788-11de-9c45-fa43cb12239b}
    nx                      OptIn

    Windows Boot Loader
    -------------------
    identifier              {current}
    device                  partition=C:
    path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
    description             Microsoft Windows Vista
    locale                  en
    -US
    inherit                 
    {bootloadersettings}
    osdevice                partition=C:
    systemroot              \Windows
    resumeobject            
    {15139707-1361-11dd-83e1-a6dfc407a4eb}
    nx                      OptIn

    Windows Legacy OS Loader
    ------------------------
    identifier              {ntldr}
    device                  partition=C:
    path                    \ntldr
    description             Earlier Version of Windows

    C
    :\Windows\system32
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  7. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #7

    You could try adding an entry for 7 manually - see if that will boot in

    bcdedit /copy {current} /d "7"

    You will get a {GUID} returned - use that, including brackets in the commands below

    Code:

    bcdedit /set {GUID} device partition=W:

    bcdedit /set {GUID} osdevice partition=W:

    You coud also get rid of ntldr - you don't use XP.

    bcdedit /delete {ntldr} /f

    I assume you have made a backup image of your existing Vista partition.
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  8. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #8
    Last edited by Lazume; 09 Nov 2009 at 16:15.
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  9. Posts : 201
    Win-7HP, VistaHP, XP
       #9

    Why did you do it this way ?? to actually kinda make your own win7 recovery partition ??

    plus was this a fresh FULL clean install or an upgrade ??

    Just wondering as im dealing with something like this at the moment and trying to come up with some idea's for something to work for what i need / trying to do.
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  10. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #10

    BSkiLLs said:
    Why did you do it this way ?? to actually kinda make your own win7 recovery partition ??

    plus was this a fresh FULL clean install or an upgrade ??

    Just wondering as im dealing with something like this at the moment and trying to come up with some idea's for something to work for what i need / trying to do.
    Originally I had 2 partitions, one for Vista, and one recovery.

    Then I shrank C so that I can have a new partition to install Win 7.

    Then after the Win 7 installation it boots into the recovery partition resulting in a loop that I can't break...
    Last edited by Lazume; 10 Nov 2009 at 15:34.
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