Solved Windows 7 failing to boot after restoring peripherals

[Caramelo]

I disconnected all drives except the os hd and the dvd drive and all usb devices in order to boot to the start/repair disc. I successfully fixed the mbr and was able to boot into win 7.

However when I reconnected the other hds and usb devices, windows boot hangs at the "starting windows" stage. Upon rebooting a start repair program ran and show 7 errors.

Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 03 unknown
Problem signature 04 43
Problem signature 05 AutoFailover
Problem signature 06 1
Problem signature 07 BadDriver
OS version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

It's all Greek to me. I'm unsure of how to proceed other than to restore the peripherals one at a time and see if the pc boots. I would like to correct the problems or at least find what they are.

 

[seavixen32]

You need to run the repair at least three times.

 

[theog]

Looks like the Hd Drive are in the wrong order. Did refit a IDE HD Drive.

 

[theog]

Is this your drive layout now.

 

[Caramelo]

I reran the start/repair 3 times with no errors logged.

My present disk arrangement is;


Disk 1 is an IDE drive.

The only active drive is C, the windows 7 one.

I have been successful booting with all the hard drives attached. Perhaps the problem is with some of the usb gear.

 

[theog]

May have been the HD drive order change or the replacement Hd Drive.

 

[karlsnooks]

Disconnect the disk labeled Disk #2 in your disk management snapshot.

Problem gone?

 

[Caramelo]

I've reconnected all devices except my scanner. I'm able to boot ok still.
One mystery is this error from the event log:

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
mbmiodrvr

Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 9/13/2011 12:04:40 PM
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Dad-PC
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
mbmiodrvr
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="Error">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7026</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-09-13T16:04:40.826868000Z" />
<EventRecordID>311703</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="616" ThreadID="620" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Dad-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">
mbmiodrvr</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

 

[Caramelo]

Disconnect the disk labeled Disk #2 in your disk management snapshot.

Problem gone?

Disk 2 is still connected and apparently no causing boot problems.

The amd bios keeps changing the order of the hds no matter what setting I give.

There's the latest, with C, the win7 listed as drive 2. It seems the bios has a mind of it's own and puts them where it will.

 

[theog]

Did you run Disk Check?

IDE Hd Drive, always boot first.

 

[Caramelo]

I haven't run any dsk chks on the hds in the pc now. That's a boot up check right?

 

[theog]

You can do a file scan:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html?ltr=S

I personally would not mix PATA & SATA Hd Drive on the same PC.

 

[Caramelo]

You're probably right. I put them in from my old pc. I should copy the data and get rid of them.

 

[Caramelo]

I've kind of tracked this down to having 5 usb devices plugged into a usb hub. If I limit the hub to 4 usb devices, I don't get the boot problem.

The hub is self powered, so it doesn't depend on the pc usb port for power. I guess the pc usb port for the hub just doesn't like 5 devices being attached to it.

 

[karlsnooks]

Carmelo,

Glad to hear that you solved the problem.

And many thanks for getting back to us and telling us what the source of the problem was.