Boot Problem


  1. FullyLoadedMan
    Posts : 218
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6
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    Boot Problem


    Hey guys, Long time no post. :)

    OK here is my problem. I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 to try it out. It installed fine onto my GB HDD, did the restart went into GRUB, no win 7 entry. Loaded up Ubuntu and checked to see if the Win 7 HDD was working, it was. Popped in my Win 7 disk and went into recovery options, the dialog box listing the installs came up, nothing in it. Went through and did a startup repair, didn't work.

    I thouht it might be an issue to do with the boot order of the HDD's, went into bios and changed my Win 7 HDD to boot first, let it start up again and it come up with
    BOOTMGR MISSING CTRL+ALT+DEL TO RESTART.

    Put my recovery disk back in and tried startup repair again, still couldn't find the Win7 install.

    Its starting to bother me now.

    Please Help
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  3. iphone
    Posts : 94
    Windows 7 32bit, Snow leopard
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    try the repair process around 5 times until successfull! the problem is windows startup repair fixes one thing at a time and there are 3 things to fix in your case (i have done the same thing sometime ago)
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  4. FullyLoadedMan
    Posts : 218
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6
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    ok, tried that. Did the startup repair like 7 times, still no luck.

    I have now physicaly removed the Ubuntu disk. Will try startup repair with only the Win 7 disk in.
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  6. iphone
    Posts : 94
    Windows 7 32bit, Snow leopard
       New #4

    also try this in the command prompt window (in the advanced repair options)

    Code:
    Diskpart
list disk
select disk [replace this with your number of the disk (HDD) where windows 7 is installed on]
list partition
select partition [replace this with your number of the partition where windows 7 is installed on]
active
exit
reboot
    Then restart and if it still doesnt work do the repair option like around 5 times again! if that doesnt work i cant help any further
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  7. FullyLoadedMan
    Posts : 218
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6
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       New #5

    Thanks for your help, i did the startup repair with only the win 7 disk in, it found the install and repaired the boot files.

    All good now. :)
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  8. iphone
    Posts : 94
    Windows 7 32bit, Snow leopard
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    yay!
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  10. FullyLoadedMan
    Posts : 218
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6
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       New #7

    Mods, can you lock the thread please. Problem solved.
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