fixboot

I did a system restore to another date and my computer now won’t work properly. It only allows me to limited options like start-up repair which doesn’t work. I got the blue screen with a qr code which led me here but I didn’t have any luck - Troubleshoot blue screen errors I also got this...

hi everyone been getting Inaccessible boot device also error 0xc0000001 when I use boot disk to get into safe mode ,tried the following commands bootrec /FixMbr success. bootrec /FixBoot access denied, bootrec /RebuildBcd failed Bootrec.exe/Scanos: scan for installations o, anyone know what...

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my HDD and it asked me to format full drive. So, I backed up my data on my friend's drive and formatted mine and installed Ubuntu but then I came up to a point where I couldn't work on Ubuntu any more. So, I decided to reinstall Windows back. So, I booted in using my...

Hi I have a problem which googling hasn't provided an answer too. It's not really a BSOD but a startup issue. If I start my laptop normally (from powered off), it only gets as far as the first windows logo (no rotating icon) and then powers off. If I start from a recovery USB and continue to...

Hello everyone, I was reading on FixMbr and FixBoot. This is what I've come to understand in distinguishing the two: FixMbr = Selects the defined (\Device\HardDisk0) hard disk from which the partition to load the o\s is located. FixBoot = selects the partition on the defined disk where the o\s...

ello, I've run into a problem with my Windows 7 install. For context, I originally had Windows XP dual booting with Windows 7 because I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the upgrade at the time. Windows XP was on my old 300 GB HDD, while I had Windows 7 on my 1.5 TB HDD (with 83GB allocated into...

I have had problems booting up my Toshiba laptop. (Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit) When i would start my computer, Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert you Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose...

Okay, I'm screw, ever since last night, my HP ask me (yes she did) if I want to switch my graphic (I have dual graphic one is intel and one is ATI mobility Radeon), I click okay to switch to power saving graphic intel, and so the screen blacks out. It never respond after black out, I made hard...

Hi! I am working on a customers computer, Windows XP home. It was hit with a nasty virus. I have removed the virus with AV software booted from a CD. It removed many many viruses. Now, when I try to boot, it doesn't even make it to the Windows XP screen. It just keeps rebooting, and asking...

Past situation: Originally I had XP and win7 working in a dual boot with XP the computers original OS and Windows 7 added later and everything worked fine. This is on an SSD harddrive. Yesterday- I needed to use Gparted to make Windows 7 partition larger as it was getting a bit small. Gparted...

"Bootmgr is missing". I compressed my entire C drive. When I rebooted I got the error "Bootmgr is compressed" I don't have a optical drive, so I made a bootable USB drive using YUMI 0.2.3 and added the windows 7 recovery ISO. The USB drive boots and I can enter the recovery console, etc...

All right Guys, this little weird and complicated. I have 2 versions of XP in my C drive and D drive respectively. (I use D drive xp mainly and C drive XP is for maintenance incase I get virus in D drive, I know its little weird)But anyways i installed WIN 7 on my E drive (all 3 os in same...

I'm in a bit of a bind. Somehow my system's MBR was written on a drive where Windows7 was not installed. The drive with the MBR failed earlier today. I thought it would be a simple fix of booting into the recovery disk, and executing bootrec /fixboot, however this didn't work for me. My...

Hi All, I have a single 500GB SATA HDD in my computer. (Rest of the specs are : 24x HP SATA DVD R/W, Intel C2D E7500 processor, Intel DG41RQI MoBo, Kingston 800 MHz 2GB RAM). When I first setup my hard-drive, I first installed "Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit" on D: drive then "Windows 7...

I've been dual-booting for about two months now on two seperate HDs. One HD is XP Pro SP3 - it was my first one - and then I added another HD and installed Win 7 on that. Recently, my 7 was crashing in a BSOD hard when I was playing a video game. I posted the minidump files online, and was...

Hi guys. I have been happily using windows 7 for the past month, until i came upon the unmountable_boot_volume blue screen of death. I would be able to fix it by running recovery, and doing chkdisk and fixboot. There is one problem, however. Every time i try running the recovery, I just go to...

Hi there I recently bought a new Gateway desktop. I added another hard drive to it and installed Ubuntu on it. Ubuntu installed the Grub bootloader to the wrong drive, the Windows 7 drive. All this happened before I made the Gateway Recovery Backup disks. I managed to fix the Windows 7 drive...

Hi guys, i'm really hoping someone can help me out. I recently used the @bios utility from Gigabyte to update my motherboard bios. I've used this plenty of times in the past on Vista 64 bit with no problems. However this is the first time i've used it with Windows 7. It went through the usual...

Ok long story. I have 2 hard drives. HArd drive #1 has windows 7 RC1 installed, and #2 is storage. I got a copy of windows 7 pro and decided to install that and move over since RC1 will eventually vanish. I installed everything new and moved over music and everything to the #2 hard drive...

Hello. Recently I downloaded the ISO for the new Windows 7 RC, but I don't have a dvd burner, so I took my Serial ATA drive and formatted it for NTFS, I attatched it to a working computer running windows xp, and from there I mounted the DVD ISO for windows 7, and installed it to the second...