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New motherboard; system will not boot; cannot find windows; no BCD
Hello,
Installed a new "gigabyte" motherboard and now I cannot boot. On powerup, past the BIOS, gets stuck in a windows boot loop, showing the "Starting Windows" splash for a few seconds and then restarting.
Using the recovery USB that I have, and with much googling, here are the things I have seen and tried.
1. Start up with recovery USB
2. Click "Next"
3. Click "Repair your computer"
.. "Searching for windows installations ..."
4. Popup "Windows found problems with your computer's startup options"
5. Click "Repair and restart"
6. Popup "Failed to save startup options"
I don't see any OS listed in the "System Recovery Options" window
7. Click "Next"
8. Popup "An internal error occurred ... The system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002)"
Went to command prompt :
X:\Sources>diskpart
DISKPART> select disk 0
DISKPART> detail disk
:
:
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
-------------- --- -------------- ------ --------- -------- --------- ------
Volume 0 D System Rese NTFS Partition 100MB Healthy
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 232GB Healthy
DISKPART> exit
Odd. I used to only have a single disk, "C". Now I have two, with Windows (and my data) in C, but D has the /Boot dir.
9. d:
D: cd boot
D:\Boot> attrib bcd -h -r -s
File not found - bcd
D:\Boot> bootrec /fixmbr
The operation completed successfully
D:\Boot> bootrec /fixboot
The operation completed successfully
D:\Boot> bootrec /scanos
:
Total identified Windows installations : 1
[1] C:\Windows
The operation completed successfully
D:\Boot> bootrec /rebuildbcd
:
[1] C:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes(Y)..: Y
The requested system device cannot be found.
D:\Boot>bcdedit
The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
The requested system device cannot be found
D:\Boot>
soooo.. what happened!!! And how do I get back to a working windows 7 ?
Please help!