Windows 7: Windows wont get past loading screen

sulleygold · 19 Jul 2013

Scratch that. My laptop is now fully functional! By some miracle it has started working. Thank you so much for your help!

sulleygold · 19 Jul 2013

Kept on repeating the processes you advised me to and it eventually all came together. Really appreciate it! Now i will back up my assignments.

nommy the first · 19 Jul 2013

Hrm, well if Windows can't fix it, then let's fix the BCD ourselves.

Note

I will be using C as my drive, as that is the drive that I installed Windows on. Change the letter to the drive where you installed Windows on! You must do that to be able to follow my steps!
The process will take about 10 to 20 minutes to complete.

Go to Command Prompt.
Type Bootrec /rebuilt bcd" without the quotations.
You'll see one of the following messages in CMD;
1.
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully.

2.
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
[1] C:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes / No / All:

If you see 1, go to step 4.
If you see 2, enter "Yes" without the quotations and go to step 9.
Type "bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup" without the quotations.
You will get a message saying that the operation completed succesfully.
Type "attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s" without the quotations.
Type "ren c:\boot bcd bcd.old" without the quotations.
Step 4 til 6 are basically a manual way of what the command in step 2 did automatically if you were to get message 2.
Type the command from step 2 again, to rebuilt BCD.
Type "Yes" without the quotations.
You should get a message informing you that the operation was completed succesfully.
Restart your machine, and boot mgr should be fixed now:)

If you still get the boot mgr is missing error, I would recommend a clean install of Windows 7, as you can find here.

Good luck and keep us posted,
Nommy

nommy the first · 19 Jul 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by sulleygold

Scratch that. My laptop is now fully functional! By some miracle it has started working. Thank you so much for your help!

Quote: Originally Posted by sulleygold

Kept on repeating the processes you advised me to and it eventually all came together. Really appreciate it! Now i will back up my assignments.

Aah nice! You're welcome:) Glad I could help you.

Do scratch post #13, you obviously don't need to follow it.

Good luck and thanks for posting back your results,
Nommy

nommy the first · 19 Jul 2013

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Again, glad that I could be of assistance,
Nommy

itami · 19 Jul 2013

sounds like you need a new hard drive

i seen bad hard drives that prevent windows from loading

nommy the first · 19 Jul 2013

That won't be necessarily Itami.
Buying new hardware should be a last resort, not a quick recommendation.
In this OP's case a simple restore of Bootmgr was sufficient to solve the problem.

Nommy