Solved A disk read error has occurred, - after deleting partition

[ssell22]

and still failed to boot disk error still

 

[ssell22]

no still get the disk error

 

[Kaktussoft]

I don't understand why "delete partion old win7" should touch the win7 new's bootsector ... strange. It shouldn't touch the Master Boot Code in MBR as well. It should only update the partition table (part of MBR). And it did that.. old win7 is gone.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Temporary mark C (partition 2) as inactive and boot normally. Of course it fails... but same error? Set it to active again after testing

 

[ssell22]

You're telling me, I have done this before and never not worked. I have even rebuilt the bcd from scratch in command prompt with GUID and that has still not fixed it

 

[Kaktussoft]

Disk Editor View of Win2K/XP NTFS Boot Record
See the first hex dump. Althoug from winxp... it should be the same. So it's the bootsector of C:. Not the MBR!!
It wanna read something but cannot

0180: EB F2 C3 0D 0A 41 20 64 69 73 6B 20 72 65 61 64 .....A disk read
0190: 20 65 72 72 6F 72 20 6F 63 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 error occurred.
01A0: 0D 0A 4E 54 4C 44 52 20 69 73 20 6D 69 73 73 69 ..NTLDR is missi
01B0: 6E 67 00 0D 0A 4E 54 4C 44 52 20 69 73 20 63 6F ng...NTLDR is co
01C0: 6D 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0D 0A 50 72 65 73 73 mpressed...Press
01D0: 20 43 74 72 6C 2B 41 6C 74 2B 44 65 6C 20 74 6F Ctrl+Alt+Del to
01E0: 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0D 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 restart........

 

[ssell22]

When booting after setting as inactive I get a wall of text

 

[Kaktussoft]

Temporary mark C (partition 2) as inactive and boot normally. Of course it fails... but same error? Set it to active again after testing

same error?

 

[ssell22]

yes after setting back to active I get the same error

 

[Kaktussoft]

When booting after setting as inactive I get a wall of text

sorrry missed that post

 

[Kaktussoft]

this is a totally fresh install? No extra drivers and software installed yet?

 

[Kaktussoft]

hmmm read error from C-bootsector. We only did chkdsk/f

chkdsk/f/r c:

takes maybe one hour

 

[Kaktussoft]

As far as I know bcd (bootmenu) is working and you did rebuild it. Say C is writable. Bootsector should only read bcd and bootmgr. Maybe bootmgr problem??

attrib  -h  -s  c:\bootmgr
del  c:\bootmgr

perform startup repair now. bootmgr is back now?

attrib  c:\bootmgr

try to reboot normally

 

[ssell22]

access is denied when trying to delete bootmgr

 

[ssell22]

no its not a fresh install i put on some drivers after install and some programs i'e antivirus

 

[ssell22]

is there a way I can just get rid of everything on the harddrive and then install windows 7 fresh or will it still not have all the boot files?

 

[gregrocker]

The flags you should be looking for to show you've successfully moved the boot files are System Active, not Boot. Boot only signifies which partition you are booted into at the moment.

In addition if you installed Win7 from the old partition and not from the booted installer, then it would not be lettered C, so you may have deleted the new Win7.

In your case you have a 400mb hidden partition which Diskpart says is labeled System. This is likely an OEM partition intended to boot the system.

Mark WIn7 Partition Active and run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts and holds the System flag, as should have been done before deleting the old Win7 partitition.

If this fails delete all partitions in a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.

 

[Kaktussoft]

access is denied when trying to delete bootmgr

just do:

ren c:\bootmgr c:\bootsave

and perform startup repair
then reboot normally.

Still failing with same error?
chkdsk/f/r c:

 

[Kaktussoft]

is there a way I can just get rid of everything on the harddrive and then install windows 7 fresh or will it still not have all the boot files?

you can. But you have a RECOVERY partition (to restore to factory settings). And a DATA partition. DATA partition has important files I assume?

 

[gregrocker]

I gave you the boot repair steps earlier to try after checking your HD. Additional measures are in step 8 here: Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot

Rescue your data using Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console or Paragon rescue disk; change drive letter; recover data.

You can try also running Recovery from it's hotkey at boot: Toshiba HDD Recovery Utility

However a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 is a vastly superior install. Everything you need is in link.