Another "stuck in startup repair loop" thread

jer18 · 08 Jul 2013

VistaKing said:

Try running the Startup repair 3 times with restarts in between

Attempted this today, fourth boot places me right back to startup repair.

VistaKing · 08 Jul 2013

Have you tried the BootRec /fixmbr and BootRec /FixBoot inside the command prompt ?

jer18 · 08 Jul 2013

VistaKing said:

Have you tried the BootRec /fixmbr and BootRec /FixBoot inside the command prompt ?

Yes, done so a few posts back.

VistaKing · 08 Jul 2013

Lets see something . Can you boot back to the System Recovery choose Command Prompt and type in the command below

bootrec /ScanOs and press [ENTER]

let me know what the results are?

jer18 · 08 Jul 2013

Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully.

VistaKing · 08 Jul 2013

Lets see something.

Open up a command prompt inside System Recovery type in the commands below one at a time and press [ENTER] after every command

Inside Command Prompt type in

diskpart

list disk 0

select partition 2

detail partition

let me know what the results are after the Detail partition

jer18 · 08 Jul 2013

typing "list disk 0" results in a command that is not valid. I did "select disk 0" instead.

See attached.

Not sure why it's listing the C drive? In this startup repair, my old OS (the one I want to get bootable) is actually letter drive E...

jer18 · 08 Jul 2013

It's got to be looking at the factory restore disk.. recovery... 9GB..

VistaKing · 08 Jul 2013

Let me see if I could get this thread moved to the System Security thread to get more help on this.

jer18 · 08 Jul 2013

Thx much! I'm prepared to have to scratch the old OS and reinstall everything, but there has to be a way to "repair" the old OS.. or reset the flag to scan it somehow..