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PXE-253: No boot filename received
Have been running Windows 7 with no problem until today. Upon booting up my PC, after the first loading screen I get this message:
PXE-253: No boot filename received
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
I get the same message again after a while with "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" added on the end.
- I've checked all connections to my hard drive and all is fine.
- I've made sure my primary hard drive with OS is selected as the first boot device and it also has first boot priority.
- I've tried a startup repair using the system recovery tools.
- There's no system restore point so I can't revert back to anything.
- I've done a chkdsk with the recovery tools.
- I've done SFC but I receive this message "The offline image has a different platform architecture than the running system".
I don't know what else to do.
I have a small idea of what caused this but not 100% sure.
I have two hard drives and was dual booting Windows, so each hard drive had a copy of Windows 7 installed.
My primary hard drive (C:\) was almost full and my secondary hard drive (D:\) was hardly used. I used a third party software to to delete and format my D:\ drive, then I moved some files from C to D.
A while later after this was done I put my PC to sleep, the display turned off but my PC never although when I woke it up I was brought to my log in screen. I didn't think nothing of it at the time and so when I turned my PC off later on and started it back up again, that is when I received the message above and haven't had access to my PC since.
I am guessing a clean install of Windows would fix this problem I am having but it is not an option as I have important files on both my C:\ and D:\ drive of which I cannot access.
Normally upon starting my PC I would be greeted with the Windows Boot Manager to pick which Windows I want to load up. Is it possible that after deleting my secondary OS that the boot process got messed up?
I don't know what else I can do so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.