problem with repair.

[pikilin]

hi

finaly i upgraded my os from xp to windows 7 and everything works perfect, but (and there is always a but) , i wanted to see how the recovery options works just in case i will have problem in the future and i loged into the recovery tools and in the head of the recovery window , i am getting this:

Operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) Local Disk

now as i said the system works perfectly, i boot without problem , so why i get this messege?

i can't do system restore, can't do nothing but the dos console.

my systme is:
mb-DG33BU INTEL
c2d 6550
the system installed on caviar green wd 500gb hard drive with no partition's.

 

[theog]

Try this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/68942-sata-drivers-load-windows-recovery-options.html

 

[Jonathan_King]

Welcome!

What recovery tools are you using? Did you create a system repair disc, or are you using your DVD?

Can you run a startup repair?

 

[pikilin]

i used recover cd i downloaded from the internet, but it is the same with windows 7 dvd.

as far as i know there are no raid drivers for my motherboard:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...ds&ProductProduct=Intel®+Desktop+Board+DG33BU

so...whats next?

btw..didn't do startuo repair cause the system is ok, shell i test startup repair anyway?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Sure, go ahead and test Startup Repair.

I can see why you can't do a system restore, because you have no restore points yet. You can also try creating one manually, and see if the system restore works then.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html

 

[pikilin]

ok wil try this and report.

 

[pikilin]

ok, startup repair went well, but system restore not

i created restore point and when i tried to redtore it from the recovery tools i got this messege:

"to use system restore you must specify witch windows installation to restore"
"restart your pc and choose operating system and then restore it"...or something like that.

btw, i must say that the support is very fast and kind on this forum

 

[Jonathan_King]

Make sure that your Windows partition is set as active.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html

Then try running startup repair again, and try a system restore.

 

[theog]

hi



Operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) Local Disk


.

Which one of those screens are geting?

 

[pikilin]

well..my windows drive looks like active i mean when i do right click the option to active the partition is grey and not clickable so i guess it is active already and i can see on the drive it says boot,crash log,active (on the disk menagment.
now looks like c drive was not the first drive on the boot order so i made it first and now i will try the recovery stuff again, also will do the startup repair again.

 

[pikilin]

ok...changed the boot order so the c drive will be the first and now i can do system restore from the recovery tools

btw, i have dual boot xp and the 7 and now i don't have the option to choose system when login, so i guess i always can change the order in the bios and to make the old system as first boot and this way i will have the dual boot again. (i am not going to do so, cause my xp attacked by bad virus few days ago and all i am getting is bsod even after i made all the recovery stuff for xp, but nothing worked so i am with 7 now and i have all the files on the xp drive, so no big deal also, i had to step forward sometime so this virus made it faster

thanks for the support, problem been solved.

 

[Jonathan_King]

You can add XP manually to the BCD using EasyBCD, if you're interested.

 

[pikilin]

no point now when the xp is down, but good to know for future use

thanks again for your great help, really appreciate the efort.