Solved Reboot and select proper Boot Device?? Help!

[stuckstuck]

Windows works fine and no hardware problems. What is this?!
So confused right now.
BIOS is set so HD boots first.
I have no idea.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or what is wrong whatever it may be?:S

 

[Indianatone]

Windows works fine and no hardware problems. What is this?!
So confused right now.
BIOS is set so HD boots first.
I have no idea.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or what is wrong whatever it may be?:S

Make sure you unplug any external hard drives or USB flash drives in case they are causing confusion in the boot order and try again. If no good and you have double checked connections on Hard drive insert your Windows DVD, boot from it and try a boot repair at least three times.

 

[stuckstuck]

Windows works fine and no hardware problems. What is this?!
So confused right now.
BIOS is set so HD boots first.
I have no idea.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or what is wrong whatever it may be?:S

Make sure you unplug any external hard drives or USB flash drives in case they are causing confusion in the boot order and try again. If no good and you have double checked connections on Hard drive insert your Windows DVD, boot from it and try a boot repair at least three times.

I'm way ahead of you. 've tried already. Both of your suggestions.

 

[stuckstuck]

"CD-ROM Boot priority ..No Medium"
I can assure you and I'll check again that my boot priority is set to my HD!!
I've never had this problem before what gives??
By the way indianatone the startup repair reports everything to be fine as i expected.
What is this?? it's killing me!!

 

[Indianatone]

Windows works fine and no hardware problems. What is this?!
So confused right now.
BIOS is set so HD boots first.
I have no idea.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or what is wrong whatever it may be?:S

Make sure you unplug any external hard drives or USB flash drives in case they are causing confusion in the boot order and try again. If no good and you have double checked connections on Hard drive insert your Windows DVD, boot from it and try a boot repair at least three times.

I'm way ahead of you. 've tried already. Both of your suggestions.

Well to save some time you could have said this in your first post. Have you got more than one hard drive? Do you have the correct hard drive set to boot from? Hard Drives (1) WD Black (2) WD Blue You are most likely attempting to boot from the wrong hard drive, check the settings in your bios.

 

[Britton30]

How does Windows work fine if you're being asked to select proper boot device?

 

[stuckstuck]

Make sure you unplug any external hard drives or USB flash drives in case they are causing confusion in the boot order and try again. If no good and you have double checked connections on Hard drive insert your Windows DVD, boot from it and try a boot repair at least three times.

I'm way ahead of you. 've tried already. Both of your suggestions.

Well to save some time you could have said this in your first post. Have you got more than one hard drive? Do you have the correct hard drive set to boot from? Hard Drives (1) WD Black (2) WD Blue You are most likely attempting to boot from the wrong hard drive, check the settings in your bios.

I also should've said that my BIOS settings have been triple checked and yes I have made sure that the boot priorities are in check with which HD I was attempting to boot first.
I also should've said that the secondary HD mentioned is a slave drive. and yes I know what the difference is and yes I've made sure that the HD with the OS installed is the one being booted from.

How does Windows work fine if you're being asked to select proper boot device?

I have no idea.
Right now after messing around in the BIOS I have miraculously managed to enter the OS.
I still have no idea what I had done.
This problem first occurred when I had done a fresh install into a new HD that I had received from WD due to HD failure with the previous one. (Warranty)
Once the install was finished and my computer was up and running again I had restarted the computer after installing several programs as you do.
But then once the restart had initiated that's when I ran into this problem.
Right now I'm on my computer after a long attempt of 'fixing' this.
I still would like to know what the problem was.
Maybe if the 'problem' could be identified I would have a piece of mind and actually solve this issue properly without having the fear of turning off my computer.
and having the problem happen again.

 

[Indianatone]

You are most likely attempting to boot from the wrong hard drive, check the settings in your bios.

 

[Britton30]

My BIOS has a Boot priority AND a HDD boot priority. When I changed the boot drive I had to change the HDD priority to get a boot.

Ex, Boot Priority"


HDD drive priority.



This is a UEFI BIOS, your may look different.

 

[gregrocker]

Please post back a screenshot of http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html so we can check over your HD configuration.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[stuckstuck]

 

[gregrocker]

Win7 is being booted by the System Reserved partition on the other HD which is way wrong and could be causing the problem. This is why all other HD's should always be unplugged during install, and why the Win7 HD should be plugged into the first SATA port to be Disk0, since otherwise any preceding Active partition will steal its boot during reinstall or Startup Repair.

To correct this Mark Partition C Active, power down to unplug Disk0 and swap its cable to the Win7 HD so it becomes Disk0. Unplug Disk2.

Now boot into Win7 installer or System Repair Disk to run Startup Repair - Run up to 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts and holds the System flag.

You can now power down to plug back in the old Disk0 into DIsk1 port. Since it has no content I'd wipe it with Diskpart Clean Command to remove old boot code so it can't interfere, then repartition in Disk Mgmt as desired.

After making sure the problem is resolved, plug back in Disk2 again.

 

[stuckstuck]

Win7 is being booted by the System Reserved partition on the other HD which is way wrong and could be causing the problem. This is why all other HD's should always be unplugged during install, and why the Win7 HD should be plugged into the first SATA port to be Disk0, since otherwise any preceding Active partition will steal its boot during reinstall or Startup Repair.

To correct this Mark Partition C Active, power down to unplug Disk0 and swap its cable to the Win7 HD so it becomes Disk0. Unplug Disk2.

Now boot into Win7 installer or System Repair Disk to run Startup Repair - Run up to 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts and holds the System flag.

You can now power down to plug back in the old Disk0 into DIsk1 port. Since it has no content I'd wipe it with Diskpart Clean Command to remove old boot code so it can't interfere, then repartition in Disk Mgmt as desired.

After making sure the problem is resolved, plug back in Disk2 again.

Thankyouthankyouthankyou! I'll try that now.

 

[stuckstuck]

Okay so I've disconnected the slave drive to do the deed.
and now that I'm trying to load up the windows disc it's coming up with a "BOOTMGR is missing"
...
...
Such a hassle. any ideas?

 

[gregrocker]

That means its not booting the disk but trying to start the HD.

How to Boot A Computer from CD or DVD - YouTube

Are you getting prompt to Press any key to boot disk? If not then burn another Disk at 4x speed using ImgBurn, or write to flash stick using UltraISO Software To Create Bootable USB Flash Drive.

If that fails download another ISO for your licensed version from Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

 

[stuckstuck]

That means its not booting the disk but trying to start the HD.

How to Boot A Computer from CD or DVD - YouTube

Are you getting prompt to Press any key to boot disk? If not then burn another Disk at 4x speed using ImgBurn, or write to flash stick using UltraISO Software To Create Bootable USB Flash Drive.

If that fails download another ISO for your licensed version from Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

Yeah but that's the thing.
I've set the boot priority to my CD Drive first AND used F8 to manually select the CDD.
No luck.
I've been searching for ways to fix this and I've come across this 'mirror' method?
I tried this and received a message saying "No extents were found for the plex"??
I think as soon as I figure out how I can mirror the 'system reserved' partition on my slave drive to my actual OS drive then my problem will be solved,
seeing as the 'system reserved' file is the thing responsible for booting my OS etc.

 

[gregrocker]

You need to be able to boot a disk, the most fundamental thing we do around here. Then you can do the steps I gave you to correct this problem which we've helped correct thousands of times before and do not involve mirroring anything.

Win7 is on a DVD, not a CD. So you;d need a DVD drive or to write the installer ISO to flash stick. If necessary start with a fresh ISO and use the tool in Steps 1 and 2 of Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.

 

[stuckstuck]

You need to be able to boot a disk, the most fundamental thing we do around here. Then you can do the steps I gave you to correct this problem which we've helped correct thousands of times before and do not involve mirroring anything.

Win7 is on a DVD, not a CD. So you;d need a DVD drive or to write the installer ISO to flash stick. If necessary start with a fresh ISO and use the tool in Steps 1 and 2 of Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.

Apologies for using the wrong term in my last post.
I have a DVD windows installation disk yes.
& would also like to note that it didn't work as I said previously.
I'm actually quite suprised something as little as 100mb,
is preventing me from accessing my entire library of files and whatevers, it's amazing.

 

[Britton30]

The little 100MB partition is what does the heavy lifting, it handles booting w7, but has to be on the same drive as the OS.
Running the Startup Repair as Greg outlined will get it back where it belongs.

 

[gregrocker]

What do you mean exactly when you say the DVD didn't work? I gave you a link to download a new installer and tool to burn to DVD or write to bootable flash stick if you need it to get the disk to boot or work correctly.

Did you mark C Active, unplug all other HD's, swap the disk cable to WIn7, then boot into the DVD to run Startup Repair - Run up to 3 Separate Times ? This is how this is repaired.

I gave you very specfic steps in my first post that are known to work. If you can't perform them then we need to know at exactly what step do they fail? Saying "it didn't work" doesn't help.