mbr

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...

On my computer I have 3 primary partitions: 1. "System reserve" which contains e.g.the Bootmamanger and MBR 2. First Win 7 installation ("main") 3. Second Win 7 installation ("reserve") When I boot now at first the Bootmanager on the first primary partition is called/started which in...

I bought a new computer where Win7 is already pre-installed on partition C: In addition I want now to install a second "test" Win7 system on a NEW primary partition. AND a logical "data" partition. At startup I want to choose later between the 2 Win7 systems which one I want to boot. When...

Hi All, I NEED SOME HELP of course... I used BCD and fouled up my system... I went back to a clean disk and created a primary partition using the whole disk space ( I used GParted from a linux bootable USB)... I'm running linux now. Using Acronis I restored my C drive with the MBR to the...

So, I have XP pro. I got Win 7 Ultimate and installed it on a different partition. Boot loader sees Win 7 and sees "an older OS". I select the other OS and it gives me an error of "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll ". I know...

Hey guys, I hate to ask a question right on first post but this is rather an frustrating issue. Out of a sudden on a random reboot one day after installing new video card drivers for my ATi HD4830 card, it went "Operating System Not Found" or something similar to that. So I thought, weird...

Something totally wierd and shocking happened with my machine running on Windows 7 today (25-06-10). This is what happened, everything was working fine till the evening. I was back home from a hard day, started my machine and i saw a message that windows has updates that needs to be...

A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute...

I am having a lot of trouble with Windows 7 booting. Here are some details: - single hdd machine (750GB); single partition - Win7 64bit home edition - I am getting the disk boot failure message on boot (nothing in particular changed) - booting from the win CD, repair seems to run ok but...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, this is my first time here. If this post is too long, I can try and condense it. I usually leave PC in sleep mode, last night was no exception. I am used to it occasionally turning itself back on every few days (not sure why) so no surprise to see...

Can someone advise please/ I have 5 hard drives in my system and I have installed windows 7 x64 on 2 separate drives and done this within windows. However a few times it booted okay but then started hanging on the post where it states verifying DMI pool data. Subsequently I tried everything to...

Upon OS boot up, I’m getting the ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt message. It started after I re-partitioned some hard drives to free up some space. I booted up and got the error message. I tried to boot up to my back up OS and still got the message. I tried to re-install a drive image, using...

Hi there. I'm having a problem that I've never had in the 12 years I've been glued to my computer screen. A couple of days ago I decided to go with a dual-boot setup, Linux and Windows. I didn't keep the dual-boot for more than a couple of hours so I decided to format my drives. After...

Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. I dual booted my computer with ubuntu 10.04 beta and windows 7. At first they played nicely, ubuntu has access to the windows partition, and windows could still boot. Hell World of warcraft even ran smoother using WINE and openGL...

I've had my computer for about a year running XP with 2 harddrives in RAID (mirror). My motherboard, Asus P5NE SLI, has the RAID controller built in. These 2 drives are my only drives (other than an external USB drive). I wanted to get rid of RAID and just have 2 regular drives and install...

Hey everybody. So the full error code in blue screen after booting (after win7 loading logo) is: Had the autocheck bad boy as well: Eliminated it via registry. So, pretty much only 0xc000003a is left. Also, autocheck as I understand is just an indicator of a problem rather than a cause...

Hey everyone. First off, Happy New Year! Feels good to be done with 2009 and have a fresh start :] That being said, I'm havig trouble with my operating system and was hoping someone here could help me out. I received a Missing Operating System error message upon boot and have unsuccessfully...

Hi all.. Just wondering, is there any system tool i can use to backup MBRs / MFTs of NTFS partitions ? I mean not third party tools.

have a Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows 7 RC dual booting with MacOS 10.5.8 on two separate partitions on one 160GB drive. Windows 7 has been running great since installing on release day, this morning after i turned my laptop on, i got to the Windows bootloader, selected Windows 7, it then...

Hi all. I hope someone has the answer for this. 1) I installed Vista in the first partition of my hard disk 2) I installed Windows 7 in the second partition of my hard disk 3) Bootmgr and BCD directory are installed in the partition containing Vista. On booting I can choose perfectly. Now the...