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 does not fix the problem (there are no operating systems listed when I click repair)
- have tried running repair several times in succession, but no luck
- I HAVE recovered from this problem twice before, using some combination of windows repair and testdisk
- testdisk says that the partition table is invalid - have used testdisk to recreate the partition table and rewrite the MBR
- when in win recovery, at command prompt, trying to switch to C: drive results in "the device is not ready"
- testdisk can find the NTFS partition fine, and all my data files are visible in the testdisk file browser
- Oddly, if I boot from a CD into linux (to use testdisk) twice, on the first time repairing the partition table, then on the second time the partition table is STILL broken.
- It's as though booting the machine breaks the partition table - could this be a virus?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Nick.
- 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 does not fix the problem (there are no operating systems listed when I click repair)
- have tried running repair several times in succession, but no luck
- I HAVE recovered from this problem twice before, using some combination of windows repair and testdisk
- testdisk says that the partition table is invalid - have used testdisk to recreate the partition table and rewrite the MBR
- when in win recovery, at command prompt, trying to switch to C: drive results in "the device is not ready"
- testdisk can find the NTFS partition fine, and all my data files are visible in the testdisk file browser
- Oddly, if I boot from a CD into linux (to use testdisk) twice, on the first time repairing the partition table, then on the second time the partition table is STILL broken.
- It's as though booting the machine breaks the partition table - could this be a virus?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Nick.