Can't Boot Windows 7, All System Recovery tools hang at blue screen

Kaktussoft said:

fabolousrmx said:

Drive C is my storage drive
Drive D freezes, I'd assume that's my normal C boot drive
Drive E is my usb
Drive F doesn't exsist

C is storage drive? What do you mean... is that on same physcial harddrive as non bootable win7?

Does internal harddrive only have one large partition (called C in win7)?

No DVD drive in system?

The info that comes up for Dir C:\ states its my backup hardrive that i use for storage. A completely separate physical HD than the non bootable win7.



I disconnected all my cd/dvd drives during the troubleshooting process.

You should also use/download some Linux Live CD like Knoppix and put it in to see how many drives it shows you.

If your System drive or any other partition of your hard drive does not show up, check in BIOS if the harddrive is listed.

Running chkdsk/f D: right now seems to be locked up though~

Kaktussoft said:

parted magic has many tools. Which tool did you use? Did you only only change the partition label?
Only 1 partition on that physical disk? Is it still listed as NTFS, type primary and is it marked ACTIVE?

I think it's NTFS, primary and active...otherwise other errors would appear on boot. But....
Maybe D drive is very small and is only the partition with bootmanager and bootmenu. Real win7 partition is lost.

So is that partition just as big as C drive in win7?

DON'T USE PARTED MAGIC as a recovery tool yet!

I just used the partition editor to look at see if there was any other partitions on my win7 boot drive, there was just one partition on that physical disc. I added the boot label nothing else.

Kaktussoft said:

fabolousrmx said:

Running chkdsk/f D: right now seems to be locked up though~

Does it display any output?

Chkdsk is still locked up, no output!

Fr0st777 said:

You should also use/download some Linux Live CD like Knoppix and put it in to see how many drives it shows you.

If your System drive or any other partition of your hard drive does not show up, check in BIOS if the harddrive is listed.

My hard drive is definitely listed in BIOS~ I can access the data on the HD using parted magic no prob, check the hard drive health, everything was green. Just won't boot~ or isn't readable in windows 7 repair/install.