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Windows repair disk: Invalid SO version.
Hi.
Scoring high for the "Rash of the Year" award, I started my laptop in RAID mode with the AHCI formatted system disk inside. And I did that BEFORE creating a Windows Repair Disk. Oh, yeah
So now I have a well earned "An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data File: \Boot\BCD"
I need a Repair Disk to rebuild the BCD, but an istallation disk is fine too. I borrowed a Win 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 , the latest version I'll find here. Boots OK, but the recovery environment refuses to load saying "disk version not compatible" with OS. ?¿?¿
I tried other tools, different bootable recovery suites (Hiren's, Acronis,Disk Director, LiveBoot) but none of them had a BCD rebuild tool. At this point I learned my ASUS came with a GPT formatted disk. In fact, it's the first time I've heard of GPT. ¿Goodbye MBR?
So I finally went to ASUS support website to buy a Repair Disk specific for my model. You can buy them from ASUS if you are so %&$(/& to tweak your disks without burning yourself one.
The ASUS Shop app rejects my serial number... so I post a message to Asus support to see what happens and their answer is threre´s no repair disk available for my model I can't believe this.
So, questions:
What Windows version install / repair disk do I need to run Recovery Options in this laptop/SO?
It's a brand new ASUS G75VW, with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. Anyone out there have one like mine to tell me the exact version?
Any other suggestion to rebuild my BCD file? I think getting a proper Repair Disk is the easiest and safest, but who knnows.
The only idea I have now is to
- copy all partitions to another hard disk
- convert it to MBR, then back to GPT,
-Replicate the previous partiton structure
Install Windows
- and then dump all the partitions back.
Any better idea?
IMPORTANT Note: Al partitions and files in the hard disk are intact. Booting WindowsPE from a USB i can browse, read and write. If I can extract any file, info, evecutable if it helps.
Thanks in advance and my apologies for such a long and weird first post.
Ignacio
Last edited by Seymour Kelburn; 13 Jan 2014 at 14:39. Reason: Add data, fix type mm