Solved MSCONFIG Blank Boot Tab

[Injust]

I was doing some registry tweaks (nothing related to MSCONFIG, just stuff from http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/37920/the-50-best-registry-hacks-that-make-windows-better/ and now, my MSCONFIG boot tab looks like this. I cannot do a system restore, and I have run an SFC scan with no integrity violations. I have not rebooted my computer since finding the error.

 

[AddRAM]

I would bite the bullet and reboot, you gotta do it sometime. Do you have a disk image saved somewhere ?

 

[Injust]

Yeah, but it's pretty old

 

[Injust]

I rebooted, and nothing happened. Everything's still the same. It boots up properly, but the MSCONFIG boot tab is still blank.
Anybody else can give advice?

 

[Injust]

Did a Startup Repair, and it wasn't able to fix it, ran it 3 times, nothing was fixed. I wanted to send reports to Microsoft and I let it, and the error message was that the system integrity check and repair failed. I ran a SFC scan right before rebooting, and I am running it again.

 

[Injust]

SFC scan completed with no integrity violations

 

[Layback Bear]

Just a thought; Folder Option. Show hidden files. While you are there check to see if their is anything else you don't want hidden.

 

[Injust]

I've done that. Show hidden files and do not hide OS files. Haven't changed anything there in the past while.

 

[Injust]

I found my own solution.
So I assigned the System Reserved Partition a drive letter, and went in. Turns out that the BCD there had a backup named "BCD.Backup.0001", so I just renamed the current BCD to BCD.old and the BCD.Backup.0001 to BCD, and everything works now

 

[Layback Bear]

Did you remove the drive letter from reserve when done?

 

[Injust]

Yes.
Problem is, now, after a reboot, everything's back to before. MSCONFIG boot tab's still blank.

 

[Injust]

Ok, so I messed around with the Startup Repair, manually moved the BCD around, and essentially wrecked everything. However, I somehow got everything to go back to normal But one more question: How do you change the boot entry name in MSCONFIG? Because at the end, it says "(recovered)".
Thanks

 

[Layback Bear]

I really don't know, never ran into that before. If it was my computer and everything worked as it should I would leave it alone. It says (recovered) and that is exactly what happened. It was recovered.

 

[Injust]

Kk

 

[DavidE]

If you ever do want to change the OS Name this tutorial by Brink explains how to do it.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5110-dual-boot-change-os-name-windows-boot-manager.html

I've changed OS names (description) using bcdedit and never had any problems.

 

[Injust]

Thanks for all the help. Problem is resolved as of now, but will re-open the thread if I encounter any more issues.
Thanks!

 

[kumaraman4656]

Hello guys,

I am not able to make any changes in boot tab under misconfig, i have windows 7 32 bit, kindly help me with a solution?

 

[Injust]

Hello guys,

I am not able to make any changes in boot tab under misconfig, i have windows 7 32 bit, kindly help me with a solution?

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