Solved Windows 7 failing to boot after restoring peripherals

I disconnected all drives except the os hd and the dvd drive and all usb devices in order to boot to the start/repair disc. I successfully fixed the mbr and was able to boot into win 7.

However when I reconnected the other hds and usb devices, windows boot hangs at the "starting windows" stage. Upon rebooting a start repair program ran and show 7 errors.

Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 03 unknown
Problem signature 04 43
Problem signature 05 AutoFailover
Problem signature 06 1
Problem signature 07 BadDriver
OS version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

It's all Greek to me. I'm unsure of how to proceed other than to restore the peripherals one at a time and see if the pc boots. I would like to correct the problems or at least find what they are.

You need to run the repair at least three times.

Looks like the Hd Drive are in the wrong order. Did refit a IDE HD Drive.

Is this your drive layout now.

I reran the start/repair 3 times with no errors logged.

My present disk arrangement is;


Disk 1 is an IDE drive.

The only active drive is C, the windows 7 one.

I have been successful booting with all the hard drives attached. Perhaps the problem is with some of the usb gear.

May have been the HD drive order change or the replacement Hd Drive.

Disconnect the disk labeled Disk #2 in your disk management snapshot.

Problem gone?

I've reconnected all devices except my scanner. I'm able to boot ok still.
One mystery is this error from the event log:

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
mbmiodrvr

Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 9/13/2011 12:04:40 PM
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Dad-PC
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
mbmiodrvr
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="Error">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7026</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-09-13T16:04:40.826868000Z" />
<EventRecordID>311703</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="616" ThreadID="620" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Dad-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">
mbmiodrvr</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

karlsnooks said:

Disconnect the disk labeled Disk #2 in your disk management snapshot.

Problem gone?

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Disk 2 is still connected and apparently no causing boot problems.

The amd bios keeps changing the order of the hds no matter what setting I give.

There's the latest, with C, the win7 listed as drive 2. It seems the bios has a mind of it's own and puts them where it will.

Did you run Disk Check?

IDE Hd Drive, always boot first.

I haven't run any dsk chks on the hds in the pc now. That's a boot up check right?

You can do a file scan:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html?ltr=S

I personally would not mix PATA & SATA Hd Drive on the same PC.

You're probably right. I put them in from my old pc. I should copy the data and get rid of them.

I've kind of tracked this down to having 5 usb devices plugged into a usb hub. If I limit the hub to 4 usb devices, I don't get the boot problem.

The hub is self powered, so it doesn't depend on the pc usb port for power. I guess the pc usb port for the hub just doesn't like 5 devices being attached to it.

Carmelo,

Glad to hear that you solved the problem.

And many thanks for getting back to us and telling us what the source of the problem was.