Cannot fix mbr with boot cd, cannot apply from USB

[kruuth]

At present I'm trying to upgrade my desktop to Windows 10. When I do there's a problem with the BCD and I'm attempting to get it back to "normal" as best I can. Right now, I'm running windows off of a 500GB SSD.

A few months ago I had a problem with the BCD. When I went to repair it with bootrec on a bootable USB key, it would find the windows install on my C: drive(it would refer to it as G but wouldn't fix it with the error "System Device Cannot Be Found" however, when I tried this via the windows 7 bootable DVD, it wouldn't find any windows installs at all.

I was able to get the machine to boot again using Hiren's bootable cd using Lazesoft's boot fix but when I fixed the MBR, the loader screen changed. I'm guessing that had something to do with it. Is there anything I need to do in order to get bootrec to recognize and rebuild? I would prefer not doing a complete wipe/reinstall on this machine. I've already scanned the disc and no errors are present. Other than the boot loader issue, there doesn't seem to be any issues with the machine when it runs.

 

[samuria]

Have you tried just going to media creation tool and hit update as it may work if not tell you the problem

 

[torchwood]

see your dual booting, if ubuntu is the first partition then its the likely cause

 

[Megahertz07]

Pleas post a Disk Manager image (whole window, expand the columns)
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

 

[kruuth]

Have you tried just going to media creation tool and hit update as it may work if not tell you the problem

What do you mean? I'm not sure where that is.

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Pleas post a Disk Manager image (whole window, expand the columns)
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Here is a picture of the SSD

 

[Megahertz07]

What do you have on that 8G partition?
Was it a Linux partition? Can it be cleaned?

I see you have Win 7 ultimate. Is it legit?

 

[kruuth]

What do you have on that 8G partition?
Was it a Linux partition? Can it be cleaned?

I see you have Win 7 ultimate. Is it legit?

Yes, the 8gb is a linux partition. I'd prefer not to clean it but if I have to, I can clean it. Yes, I have Windows 7 ultimate, and it is legit.

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Any ideas here?

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OK tried the update to 10 again. Got this error...something's not right with the boot loaderView attachment 420160

 

[Megahertz07]

Is Linux active?
As you have a Legacy-MBR drive, if Linux is active, you have Grub as the Master boot loader, not Windows boot loader and the update can't find what it is expected (a Windows boot loader)

You can try to do a Windows boot repair with a Win 7 installation drive and then do the update. When Win 10 is installed, install Grub as an option under windows. Use EasyBCD

Make a disk image before you begin

 

[kruuth]

No, Linux isn't active. I'm using the windows boot loader

 

[Megahertz07]

Make a disk image before you begin

To rebuild the MBR
Use Disk Manager to assign X: letter to System Reserved partition.

bcdboot C:\Windows /s X: /f BIOS


Have no more suggestions to give you.

I still use Win 7 as I think it is still a better OS.
If you worried about he updates, use Single file with all updates - Simplix

 

[kruuth]

I tried that. It gives me this "access denied" error and I have not idea how to fix that.

 

[Megahertz07]

I tried that. It gives me this "access denied" error and I have not idea how to fix that.

Please explain "that"

 

[kruuth]

Please explain "that"

Sorry. I tried fixing the mbr from the windows 7 recovery media and tried rebuilding the mbr with the command listed in the threat.