'DISK BOOT FAILURE' following successful installation of Windows 7
I have just lost five (FIVE!) hours of my Saturday installing Windows 7, and apparently all for naught.
I just purchased a new 1tb Western Digital SATA drive (WD). I'm currently running Windows XP SP3 on a 400gb SATA Seagate Barracuda, and decided I should upgrade, so the idea was to install Win7 on the new drive, then start to move all of my programs and files across as needed.
I put in my Win7 OEM disk (with my Seagate temporarily disconnected) and ran the install. As expected, it took forever, however all appeared to be well. It rebooted a couple of times during installation (as indicated) and seemed to be fine. After the installation was successful, I briefly changed some preferences in Windows 7 (just themes and icon display), and then checked for updates: 128 updates, totalling 401.9mb. I hit 'Update' and left my system to it. This took around 2 hours, and I didn't touch my PC as this was running. Once it was all done, it prompted for a restart, which I duly did. At that point (and with only the WD and DVD drive connected) I got DISK BOOT FAILURE. Sadface.
I have done the following:
Checked the boot order in the BIOS
Ran the repair utility via the OEM disk (no operating system shows up for repair)
Ran the repair utility, gone to command prompt and tried:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootsect /nt62 ALL
Changing the SATA cables & changing SATA ports
...but nothing. I can browse the WD drive when I'm in repair console or command prompt, BIOS recognizes it... it just. Won't. Boot. I'd really rather try to repair it if possible than spent another 5 hours reinstalling it, but I'm at a loss. I suspect it was an issue with the 128(!) Windows updates, but I've no idea where to even begin sorting through that mess.
I can still successfully boot to my original Seagate XP drive with no problems (* wipes brow *).
Any ideas, or am I looking at a complete reinstall? And if that's the case, is there anything I should watch out for to stop this happening again?
I have just lost five (FIVE!) hours of my Saturday installing Windows 7, and apparently all for naught.
I just purchased a new 1tb Western Digital SATA drive (WD). I'm currently running Windows XP SP3 on a 400gb SATA Seagate Barracuda, and decided I should upgrade, so the idea was to install Win7 on the new drive, then start to move all of my programs and files across as needed.
I put in my Win7 OEM disk (with my Seagate temporarily disconnected) and ran the install. As expected, it took forever, however all appeared to be well. It rebooted a couple of times during installation (as indicated) and seemed to be fine. After the installation was successful, I briefly changed some preferences in Windows 7 (just themes and icon display), and then checked for updates: 128 updates, totalling 401.9mb. I hit 'Update' and left my system to it. This took around 2 hours, and I didn't touch my PC as this was running. Once it was all done, it prompted for a restart, which I duly did. At that point (and with only the WD and DVD drive connected) I got DISK BOOT FAILURE. Sadface.
I have done the following:
Checked the boot order in the BIOS
Ran the repair utility via the OEM disk (no operating system shows up for repair)
Ran the repair utility, gone to command prompt and tried:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootsect /nt62 ALL
Changing the SATA cables & changing SATA ports
...but nothing. I can browse the WD drive when I'm in repair console or command prompt, BIOS recognizes it... it just. Won't. Boot. I'd really rather try to repair it if possible than spent another 5 hours reinstalling it, but I'm at a loss. I suspect it was an issue with the 128(!) Windows updates, but I've no idea where to even begin sorting through that mess.
I can still successfully boot to my original Seagate XP drive with no problems (* wipes brow *).
Any ideas, or am I looking at a complete reinstall? And if that's the case, is there anything I should watch out for to stop this happening again?
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