freezing at start up

[namzza]

Windows 7 freezes at start up. When i can get into system repair it asks for my hard disk drivers. Won't boot from DVD or USB. From my research I think it might be motherboard, Asus P5P800.......but not sure?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Welcome to SF!

First, how long has this been going on?

It almost sounds as if this may be a hard drive problem, though it's just a bit early. Try testing your drive with the bootable version of SeaTools: | Seagate

Now where does this problem occur? What stage in bootup?

 

[namzza]

I ran windows 7 for about 2 months then it froze and now won't boot, it did boot once but shut down after 30 min. I took the HD and hooked it to my laptop and all the files are there

 

[namzza]

and I also hooked a new HD to my PC.....same problem won't boot.
When I try to boot from USB I get the following
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Is there any OS installed on the USB drive? If not, that explains the error.

Try creating a repair disc, or USB drive. If you have a Windows 7 DVD, you can use that instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

Boot from that, and try running a startup repair.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

 

[namzza]

I'fe tried that ...still can't find hard drives

 

[namzza]

I am so lost about this

 

[Jonathan_King]

Try backing up the data on your hard drive, and then doing a custom install.

 

[namzza]

Help

 

[Jonathan_King]

I'll be happy to help. Could you please be a bit more specific?

 

[namzza]

More specific? Anything in particular you need to know? This is really driving me loopy ( the computer, not you)

 

[Jonathan_King]

Boot from the installation DVD, and perform a custom install.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20146-custom-install-windows-7-a.html

 

[namzza]

tried it, says it can't find hard drive drivers

 

[Jonathan_King]

Enter the BIOS setup, and try changing the hard drive mode to SATA, if it is set to AHCI, or AHCI if set to SATA.

Have you tried running SeaTools for DOS yet?

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=480bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD