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laptop only boots with usb stick
In short: I can't boot my laptop.
It will ONLY boot when I stick a Rescue USBstick in it, it then shows the normal bootmenu.
Longer description of the problem: After moving/resizing the partitions, the laptop didn't boot anymore.
Setup is four partitions:
1-Vista (original partition when I bought it)
2-WinXP
3-W7
4-Recovery partition for Vista (doesn't work now. Never tested it when thing ran smoothly, actually)
My goal was: I wanted to switch from vista to w7, but i mucked about with the partitions and I guess I damaged the bootloader and/or the mbr??? (what's the difference between these 2?)
Situation before: It was a triple boot system. Each OS was installed on it's own partition.
Situation After: I can only boot with the rescue boot usb attached to the laptop. I get the same bootmenu with 3 OSes as I always did.
Funny thing: The rescue-USB does NOT offer it's own extensive boot options (it's the well-known H?????15.2.iso) AT ALL. (not promoting anything here, hence the "?????". It just shows me the old bootmenu. It almost seems as if it repaired my boot menu, but on the usb, not on the HDD.
I did too, muck about with the Vista Rescue ISO too.
MY Question: How do I get my normal boot menu back, without having to use an USB??
Hardware: HP Pavilion DV2, 298 GB HDD
specs: HP Pavilion dv2 Laptop specs
Getting a new HDD or formatting my drives aren't options for me. And no offense meant, but you should see the stuff that gets said on other sites. Sorry. Not everyone on the interwebs is a serious, polite person.
I realize that I have an entirely workable situation, but I still like to get things back to normal. Thank you.
Last edited by GwenKillerby; 18 Aug 2014 at 08:16.