Windows 7 cant restart problem

[mankey]

windows 7 is installed on a hp7700 machine...and works fine, but if i try RESTART it wont boot???
If i use shut down it goes down and stays off as it should, and if i power it on again it boots up and everything works.
The only problem is when i try to restart...it goes down but somehow loses boot partition or something like that. It looks like he cant find boot disk, or mbr or...im guessing. And again if i shut it down, or power off and power on it boots fine.
I've used XP and even ubuntu and they work fine. everything seems to be ok. Any ideas?

 

[reghakr]

I'm just taking a wild stab here,. but Start your computer and hit the F8 key until you see the boot options,. choose Safe Mode,. then restart

 

[geynske006]

I've got the same problem as him. Exactly the same.. weird.. i'll do now the safe mode thingy and i'll reply here..

 

[geynske006]

Well i did what you said, but it was the same. It's something weird... really weird...

 

[Saltgrass]

Are you getting an actual message about bootmgr or some such thing?

Have you or are you using a dual boot situation?

Have you tried changing the SATA cables around?

Does it make any difference if you have a bootable DVD in your drive?

Are you using any external devices which you leave plugged in, like a flash drive?

 

[geynske006]

NO no messages.. It just ends after I press restart with a blinking stripe at left hand side above in the screen.
Changed allready SATA cables.

When I do hibernate "when he should save settings and power off" It allso can't return from that.
With other words. My pc can only reboot when He has been powered off.

 

[caesar56]

Actually Im having the same problem ..

When I restart windows my hard drives wont boot. I have to add that in the AHCI config screen i can see all of my HD drives throwing me s.m.a.r.t error.

what could this be?

AHCI driver date, according the config utility is from 2007, very old indeed but i havent found anything newer in amds driver page.

 

[waynesmithp]

I have same problem, won't restart, hangs Win 7 load screen, about halfway. If I shutdown, then start, all is fine although once control panel would not display devices.