Trying to restore laptop..wouldn't boot this morning..

[TareyWolf]

I made a recovery disk from another laptop which allows me to go into the system recovery options. I chose the first option use recovery tools the can help fix problems starting windows. I selected window 7 and then a window came up saying "add drivers". it says insert the installation media for the device and click okay to select the drivers. However I am starting from a recovery disk and I'm not sure where to find the drivers it is asking for. The good news is that I can see that the hard drive is okay it's just the start up got corrupted. Can anyone advise me?

 

[Kaktussoft]

Normally no drivers are needed. All needed are already on recovery disk. Only in special cases for example hardware-raid you need to install extra drivers to recovery environment.

Just do a "startup repair" and tell me if and what error it finds. Click "view details" or "view diagnostics details" or somtehing like that. 0x0 means no problem at all. What errors does it find and does it fix it?

Do it 3 times with reboot in between

 

[Kaktussoft]

I made a recovery disk from another laptop which allows me to go into the system recovery options. I chose the first option use recovery tools the can help fix problems starting windows. I selected window 7 and then a window came up saying "add drivers". it says insert the installation media for the device and click okay to select the drivers. However I am starting from a recovery disk and I'm not sure where to find the drivers it is asking for. The good news is that I can see that the hard drive is okay it's just the start up got corrupted. Can anyone advise me?

What happens if you start the laptop normally? Any BSOD or other errors? Tell exactly what happens

 

[TareyWolf]

I realized it was 'pilot error' in that i clicked the find drivers button by mistake. Running repair now... Will return with more info...

 

[TareyWolf]

Problem is that my drives got redesignated/renamed. How do i fix that?

 

[seavixen32]

You can do it in Control Panel/System & Security/Administrative Tools/Create & Format Hard Disk Partitions.

Right-click each drive you want to remap and give it a new drive letter.

Remember though, don't try and remap your Windows drive: it should always be the letter C.

 

[TareyWolf]

Im still in disk repair mode... It hasnt booted per se. How would i reach these areas just looking at "my computer" say

 

[Kaktussoft]

Im still in disk repair mode... It hasnt booted per se. How would i reach these areas just looking at "my computer" say

disk repair mode? Are you refering to "startup repair" in recovery environment?

 

[TareyWolf]

Yes, sorry. Windows boot manager came up requesting a startup disk saying some hardware is inaccessible. I made a system repair disk from another laptop i have here. Booted with it. Windows loaded files. System Recovery Options window. It searched for windows installations and found one... Windows 7 on disk "(D C:" . If i click "Load Drivers" then ok it starts an open file dialogue. Through that i could see all the partitions and data were intact but the drives renamed. I was even able to save some key files onto a backup drive. If i click out of that and highlight windows 7, click "Next" it starts the repair process but that doesn't fix the drive renamed issue.

So now the question really is how do i rename and if necessary mark as active the partitions back to what they need to be wwithout access to the usual internal tools? I have partion software on the computer but i dont know how it could help me now.

 

[TareyWolf]

Yes, sorry. Windows boot manager came up requesting a startup disk saying some hardware is inaccessible. I made a system repair disk from another laptop i have here. Booted with it. Windows loaded files. System Recovery Options window. It searched for windows installations and found one... Windows 7 on disk "(D C:" . If i click "Load Drivers" then ok it starts an open file dialogue. Through that i could see all the partitions and data were intact but the drives renamed. I was even able to save some key files onto a backup drive. If i click out of that and highlight windows 7, click "Next" it starts the repair process but that doesn't fix the drive renamed issue.

So now the question really is how do i rename and if necessary mark as active the partitions back to what they need to be wwithout access to the usual internal tools? I have partion software on the computer but i dont know how it could help me now.

 

[Kaktussoft]

C or D are just logical drive letters. They can diifer in windows and winrecovery environmet... no problem

 

[Kaktussoft]

Yes, sorry. Windows boot manager came up requesting a startup disk saying some hardware is inaccessible. I made a system repair disk from another laptop i have here. Booted with it. Windows loaded files. System Recovery Options window. It searched for windows installations and found one... Windows 7 on disk "(D C:" . If i click "Load Drivers" then ok it starts an open file dialogue. Through that i could see all the partitions and data were intact but the drives renamed. I was even able to save some key files onto a backup drive. If i click out of that and highlight windows 7, click "Next" it starts the repair process but that doesn't fix the drive renamed issue.

So now the question really is how do i rename and if necessary mark as active the partitions back to what they need to be wwithout access to the usual internal tools? I have partion software on the computer but i dont know how it could help me now.

Your still not telling what kind of problems startup repair did find and if it could fix ir. click in "view details"" or "view diagnostic details" or something like that

 

[TareyWolf]

I made a EAsus partition software startup disk which tells me that the partitions are properly named and designated. So now i am back to not knowing how to get this laptop to boot

 

[TareyWolf]

Finally more info:

Problem event name: startuprepairoffline
Problem signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 03: unknown
Problem signature 04: 21201048
Problem signature 05: external media
Problem signature 06: 4
Problem signature 07: corrupt file
Os version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

 

[TareyWolf]

Finally more info:

Problem event name: startuprepairoffline
Problem signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 03: unknown
Problem signature 04: 21201048
Problem signature 05: external media
Problem signature 06: 4
Problem signature 07: corrupt file
Os version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

I found a site here on "SevenForums" that walked through a repair routine:
which got me working from the DOS prompt to repair the MBR, etc. All worked great, Then I got to last command, "bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd" It reported:

"Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified
Windows installations 0. The operation completed successfully."

But the prior repair had found a windows installation. What does this mean??

Also... It opened on first clicking command prompt in drive X which I guess has the boot information on my computer. I tried to change to drive C: and it said there was no drive C. Then I changed to drive D: and there is my operating system. It says:

"D:\>dir
Volume in drive D is C:
Volume serial number B682-7261

Directory of D:\"


So this drive got renamed for one thing, it was drive C: (partition).

Can anyone help me from here? I develop software, and this is my main development computer. I have a cloud backup system, and have in this troubleshooting process manually backed up a lot of key stuff, but if I can I'd like to fix this boot/windows installation if possible. I do have a Win 7 SP1 disk (for new computers) which helped me get this far.

Thanks....:huh:

 

[TareyWolf]

One more thing...

Another snippet of information I forgot to add was that I booted up with an EASUS partition master repair disk. In there, there was a C: drive that all looked correct. All drives looked correct actually. So I am cornfused.

 

[Kaktussoft]

bootrec /nt60 all /force
bootrec /nt60 all /force /mbr

from recovery environment "command prompt". Both command succeed succesfully?
press f8 multiple times on boot. do you see a bootmenu now?

 

[Kaktussoft]

bootrec /nt60 all /force
bootrec /nt60 all /force /mbr

from recovery environment "command prompt". Both command succeed succesfully?
press f8 multiple times on boot. do you see a bootmenu now?

commands should be:
bootsect /nt60 all /force
bootsect /nt60 c /force /mbr

 

[TareyWolf]

I am doing a Windows Defender Offline scan which is coming up with some items. It's been scanning all day. When that is done I will do the above - and thank you.

 

[TareyWolf]

Alas I did everything suggested, pressed F8 and did get a boot selection page but the system still will not boot. Are we out of options?

Is there a way at the command line to rename disk D: to disk C:? Or is this a matter of the corrupted file saying it is D: when (in the partition software) it isn't...?