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| Thread ID: 131294 | 2013-05-02 00:30:00 | Win 7 will not start | Swampy (2426) | Press F1 |
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| 1339361 | 2013-05-02 22:54:00 | Thanks to all for your most helpfull info. I have managed to get the lappy to boot from the Win7 disk - it took over an hour after it got to " Starting Setup " screen - but it appears to me that the hard drive is not being recognised. I have gone to the "prompt" screen and tried to change directory but it will not go to the C:\ drive. I will remove the hard drive again and see if I can get it to run. Get back to you later. | Swampy (2426) | ||
| 1339362 | 2013-05-02 23:19:00 | With windows 7 the C: drive is actually the hidden partition - Let me explain: When windows 7 installs it creates hidden partition containing certain functions, labels it as C, then the actual working partition is labelled D. BUT because its hidden, so is the drive letter, so when windows boots as normal, the working partition is now showing as C. When you boot from a recovery CD the hidden partition is now active and can be seen by the recovery CD, so C is the hidden and D is now the actual working OS, so to get into the working OS partition you have to change to D, not C. Confused ? ;) To show it, from the CMD type Diskpart ( its all one word) <Press Enter> List Volume <Press Enter> What you should see is : Volume 0 E Repair Disc Volume 1 C System Rese Volume 2 D Word of warning, in diskpart be VERY careful, one wrong command and you wipe the drive in an instant, you don't get a second "are you sure" |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1339363 | 2013-05-02 23:38:00 | I posted this but it did not appear Thanks for all the helpfull info. I have managed to get it to boot using the Win7 disk - it took over an hour after the " Set up is Starting"screen - and it appears to me that the hard drive is not being recognised. I used the promt screen to try to see the C:\ but nothing happened.I will take the HDD out again and see if I can get ti to re-set. I'll let you know what happens. |
Swampy (2426) | ||
| 1339364 | 2013-05-03 00:51:00 | That's right --- In CMD, C: wont let you in. Its the system reserved partition. If you wanted to look at the OS Directory you would change to that by typing D: Then DIR will list the contents. If you wanted to run chkdsk to check it at the X:\Windows\System32> you would need to type chkdsk D: /f The other options are once its loaded on the CD, you can select System Restore and return the whole thing backwards to before all the trouble began or click on Startup repair. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1339365 | 2013-05-03 01:24:00 | Assuming this is AMD, found one possible fix: "In Your bios -> for AMD turn hypertransport to 8 bit and x1." I think if that has to be done, you have a hardware fault. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1339366 | 2013-05-08 03:31:00 | Thanks once again to all the help offered. I have resolved the problem to be a fault in the boot up section of the hard drive. I have replaced the ahrd drive. | Swampy (2426) | ||
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