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  1. Posts : 25
    Win7 64 bit
       #1

    Win7 fails to boot


    After a recent power failure while the PC was on, I've had various problems with my PC booting up, but its been intermittant.
    A few nights ago when I tried to start the PC it sometime went to the Win7 startup screen and other times just froze.
    I had made a Win7 repair disc before just in case, so I got the the repair and tried that, with no sucess.
    Also tried at the prompt bootrec.exe /fixmbr and although it said it was successful, nothing happened.
    I also tried bootrec.exe /fixboot, but I keep getting a message that something is missing.
    Any help would be appreciated.
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  2. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #2

    Bsmooth said:
    After a recent power failure while the PC was on, I've had various problems with my PC booting up, but its been intermittant.
    A few nights ago when I tried to start the PC it sometime went to the Win7 startup screen and other times just froze.
    I had made a Win7 repair disc before just in case, so I got the the repair and tried that, with no sucess.
    Also tried at the prompt bootrec.exe /fixmbr and although it said it was successful, nothing happened.
    I also tried bootrec.exe /fixboot, but I keep getting a message that something is missing.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    The bootrec commands try to fix the MBR and partition bootsector. Those 2 are not faulty.... the win7 logo appears on screen.

    but I keep getting a message that something is missing.
    Exact error message please.
    Also tried at the prompt bootrec.exe /fixmbr and although it said it was successful, nothing happened.
    What did you expect to happen?
    A few nights ago when I tried to start the PC it sometime went to the Win7 startup screen and other times just froze.
    Computer freezes while win7 animation is running? It animates forever, or animation stops?
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  3. Posts : 25
    Win7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Sometimes it did go to the win 7 screen , but now it doesn't. I'll have to get the exact message I get.
    I did create a system image on another internal drive I have in the PC.
    Should I just get a new HD and do a transfer somehow ?
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  4. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #4

    Boot from the Win7 repair disc you created earlier.
    Does it see your WIN7 installation? Select "command prompt" from the recovery options. Then:
    Code:
    dir  c:\users
    dir  d:\users
    dir  e:\users
    Which of the commands above shows your user account?
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  5. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #5

    Bsmooth said:
    Sometimes it did go to the win 7 screen , but now it doesn't. I'll have to get the exact message I get.
    I did create a system image on another internal drive I have in the PC.
    Should I just get a new HD and do a transfer somehow ?
    First prove the internal disk is faulty!
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  6. Posts : 25
    Win7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    I'll get the specifics as far as error messages. But so far trying fixmrb hasn't worked and I was hoping that would get it to boot. I still think its the partition bootsector thats giving me the issues.
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  7. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #7

    post output of the bootrec commands. And answer #4
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  8.    #8

    Work through the steps for Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Start
    which try everything possible to start Win7, or test the hardware if it is in doubt.
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  9. Posts : 25
    Win7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    OK these are the results from last night:
    As far as Windows install per answer #4 and users I got file not found on C and D and my user account on E.
    As far as Bootrec.exe, results were:
    /fixmbr - operation completed successfully

    /Fixboot - Element not found

    /scanos - Total identified windows installations : 1
    [1] E:\Windows, operation completed successfully

    When I try and boot my PC I get eithet of these two messages:
    Reboot and select proper boot device, insert boot media and press key
    Or
    A disk error occured
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  10. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #10

    in same command prompt:
    Code:
    diskpart
    select  vol  c
    detail part
    exit
    What is the purpose of this partition?

    Code:
    chkdsk/f  c:
    chkdsk/f  d:
    chkdsk/f  e:
    No disk errors found? If found.... are the errors repaired?
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