New
#21
Sir, you deserve all the praise you get Using above I have at last accessed his PC !!!!
My most humble thanks. I would never have done this without your help.
But; I can either carry on here or start a new thread as I cannot boot from his HDD.
As said earlier in this thread at some point when trying to boot from the HDD the Boot Manager was reported as missing, so all boot ups after that were completed using his original installation disc with only that boot option selected in the BIOS.
Now I have tried to use his System Repair Disc but that was reported as either incorrect or corrupted, or something similar. I dug out my W7 64bit System Repair Disc, and that booted straight to his desktop, which it seems, according to the boot repair tutorials should have booted to various repair and startup repair programs.
I also tried using the HDD as boot 1 and the CD drive as boot 2, never got to option 2 as it stuck on Boot Manager is missing.
The W7 Troubleshooter has no options for boot up repair.
The HDD will not boot
The System Repair Disc does not give any repair options but goes straight to booting to desktop.
I did see a tutorial using the CMD prompt, is this the best route I should be looking at? If so, that is why I have not as yet finished your instructions as indicated in BOLD text.
Another 2 steps forward and followed by another 1 step backward.
Last edited by Trapper; 07 Dec 2016 at 12:42. Reason: Usual Typo's