Laptop having Problems booting System recovery Error 0x80070003

[Phenom588]

I went to turn on my computer tonight and it wouldn't load the operating system, instead bringing me to the problem booting error screen where i can choose to do a system repair or start windows normally. Both options lead to it loading the windows system files and bringing me to the system repair. There's a box where i can pick the operating system, but there aren't any to select. When attempting to do any of the options in system recovery i either get the error 0x80070003, no operating system selected, or it just says i am unable to in the case of windows memory diagnostic. I have very little idea how to go about fixing this, and i don't know if hardware helps but my laptop is the Asus n56V.

 

[Northernsoul55]

Welcome and hopefully i can help you resolve this issue

Im assuming Windows 7 64bit is the operating system on your machine?

Do you have the Windows 7 disc also?
Firstly i suggest you boot in to the Advanced Boot Options screen by pressing F8 continuously at the Asus splash screen and select Last known Good configuration. If that doesnt work select Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure and reboot your computer.

If you get a BSOD (Blue screen of death) upon reboot, like the one below, look up the stop code similar to the one here and post the code back.

Cheers Dave

 

[Kaktussoft]

I went to turn on my computer tonight and it wouldn't load the operating system, instead bringing me to the problem booting error screen where i can choose to do a system repair or start windows normally. Both options lead to it loading the windows system files and bringing me to the system repair. There's a box where i can pick the operating system, but there aren't any to select. When attempting to do any of the options in system recovery i either get the error 0x80070003, no operating system selected, or it just says i am unable to in the case of windows memory diagnostic. I have very little idea how to go about fixing this, and i don't know if hardware helps but my laptop is the Asus n56V.

Boot to recovery options and select "command prompt".

diskpart
list vol
exit

Do you see the partitions on disk? What is drive letter of "system reserved" (if listed) and what is drive letter of the win7 drive?

diskpart
sel vol c
det part
sel vol d
det part
sel vol e
det part

Which volume lists "active: yes"?

 

[Kaktussoft]

What happens if you run "startup repair" from recovery environment"? Click "view diagnostics results" to see what it did fix. 0x0 means no error... I'm only interested in other real problems.

 

[Kaktussoft]

memory check excutable is normally located on C drive. Maybe C:\boot\memtest.exe is not there. Or bootmenu looks to wrong partition. Or bootmenu is totally corrupt.

system restore isn't working because it doesn't know what win7 instance to repair. Some people have 2 or more win7 installs on 1 pc, so you must first select one. But that was impossible, because it didn't find one.

Windows recovery environment is also on C and boots fine, so I think pc still knows what's C and C is not totally corrupted. Correct partition is active, otherwise it didn't boot at all.

Do you have a win7 system repair disk? Otherwise create one (on another system of course). http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

 

[Phenom588]

Alright I am very sorry for the late reply, and thank you for all the responses. I'll address each one in order.

• @NorthernSoul55 - I tried both last known good configuration and Disable automatic restart on system failure but they didn't change anything.
• @Kaktussoft - The only partion listed is E, and the type is DVD-ROM. I'm assuming that that means it isn't picking up the hard drive at all? When I tried the startup repair, it said that it was unable to repair it. It didn't do anything, and the root cause is hard drive not found.
• I do not have the original windows 7 installation disk because the laptop came with it preinstalled and didn't have the disk. I can make a system repair disk, but my desktop right now is still running on xp 32 bit, so I'd need to do everything required to bring it up to windows 7 64bit. (I'm attempting to figure out how to split this up, sorry for the wall of text edit - list works =D)

 

[Kaktussoft]

diskpart
sel  disk  0
list  part
exit

What do you see?

Very strange you only see E. What the heck is C and D?
Are you booting from CD/DVD? I thought you were booting from HDD so C must exist!

 

[Phenom588]

diskpart
sel  disk  0
list  part
exit

What do you see?

Very strange you only see E. What the heck is C and D?
Are you booting from CD/DVD? I thought you were booting from HDD so C must exist!

It shows E, I went into the bios and there is no boot from the HDD. I think I am booting from the CD/DVD but there isn't anything in the tray. I also saw that the computer was using AHCI and I know my desktop uses IDE, would switching that do anything?

 

[Kaktussoft]

diskpart
list disk


how many disks?

diskpart
sel disk 0
list part


How many partitions?

 

[Kaktussoft]

diskpart
sel  disk  0
list  part
exit

What do you see?

Very strange you only see E. What the heck is C and D?
Are you booting from CD/DVD? I thought you were booting from HDD so C must exist!

It shows E, I went into the bios and there is no boot from the HDD. I think I am booting from the CD/DVD but there isn't anything in the tray. I also saw that the computer was using AHCI and I know my desktop uses IDE, would switching that do anything?

If there's no CD/DVD in tray it can't boot from it. No usb disk or stick conncted ... it can't boot from usb.

It is booting form HDD!

 

[Phenom588]

I was wrong, it's using windows boot manager to boot. When I do that I get the disk you specified is not valid. I guess I was wrong before, E is volume 0 not disk 0 my bad.

 

[Phenom588]

Wrong post, my bad.

 

[Kaktussoft]

I was wrong, it's using windows boot manager to boot. When I do that I get the disk you specified is not valid. I guess I was wrong before, E is volume 0 not disk 0 my bad.

So

diskpart
list disk


Doesn't list any disk?

What the heck is C and D if you have E?

dir c:\
dir d:\

 

[Kaktussoft]

root cause is hard disk not found. Your hard disk is not detected. Did you boot form CD/DVD or USB?

 

[Phenom588]

"The system cannot find the path specified" is what I get for both. I can choose to boot from windows boot manager now or P2 MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ8B0. The second won't actually boot anything though.

 

[gregrocker]

It's booting WinRe on the HD to run repairs but not detecting the OS. This could be because it's infected or because it needs repair to even be detected. The steps for Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Start
sequence repairs to take into account all possibilities, and offer everything that can be done to repair Win7 leading up to if necessary rescuiing your files to run Recovery or Reinstall.

 

[Kaktussoft]

in recovery environment->command prompt

bcdedit

You see something like this (sorry it's in dutch)

Windows-opstartbeheer
---------------------
id {bootmgr}
device boot
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
locale nl-NL
default {current}
resumeobject {9dc4384c-ed0f-11e1-a017-806e6f6e6963}
displayorder {current}
timeout 10
Windows-opstartlaadprogramma
----------------------------
id {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Home Premium
locale nl-NL
recoverysequence {736323c3-1247-11e2-a92d-8aaa5ce884b2}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {9dc4384c-ed0f-11e1-a017-806e6f6e6963}
-----------------
What's listed on the place I made bold?

 

[Phenom588]

At the moment I am trying to reinstall windows 7, but if that doesn't work I'll get back to you on that.

 

[gregrocker]

Follow these same steps to Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 to assure you get and keep a perfect install, as long as you stick closely to the methods and tools provided.

 

[manal]

Hi every body im new in this forums

nice solution i used it usually and if didnt work i setup new windows and rest my mind