PC wont boot hard drive

JustAnotherSaver

that wrote: »

that video was set up for mbr partitons. Since that video (vista) things have moved on a bit.... a new partition preference has come unto existence (GPT), ssd have been invented, and Bioses are EUFI.

That video is probably not your setup.

this is more your setup but it only shows one disk and is on win10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDOqQOn37A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhVAc3OAM0

EasyBCD may cure, just not sure how standard it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTRdkkGqQQ

'Things' may have come on a long way but i haven't. My PC is set up in pretty much the same way it was back in 2010, minus the addition of a SSD drive, well, a bigger one (had a 60GB one back then).


It's like Windows 10 stuff, is it relevant? I've been clicking past it because i'm on Windows 7.


Anyway i've got to test something out but i think *fingers crossed* it's sorted. I'll post back.

JustAnotherSaver

Right, problem solved, thankfully.


For future reference, what worked? Well i went through the repair Windows install via the Windows DVD.



But i thought you said that didn't work you all say?


Yeah and it didn't. I kept putting the disc in the drive, kept restarting the PC, kept trying again and again and again. Then when i said right, this is the last f#@%$ng time ... the repair option appeared when i clicked next instead of me just getting a list of drives & partitions.


Went through that process & it fixed it. Then all i had to do was arrange the drives i wanted in the order i wanted them via EasyBCD and job done, back to where i was.





Thanks to all for their help

that

Well done

Please think about Virtual PCs. They work excellent on stable hardware.

do another full backup

JustAnotherSaver

that wrote: »

Well done

Please think about Virtual PCs. They work excellent on stable hardware.

do another full backup

First question - what are you recommending Virtual PCs for actually?


Well i say first question, that's the only one actually.


I've had Virtual PCs. I had Windows 7 installed on one (within a Windows 7 host). Some times i may have needed to download files which i could only find on suspect sites. I don't mean xxx here but .exe files for example on sites that you know you're going to get 1001 pop ups, even with your pop up blocker. So i had Windows 7 in a Virtual PC so that if it caused any problems (which it had done in the past) it was contained within that Virtual PC (i since learned after setting this up that things can sometimes affect the host, so the host isn't totally immune).


I also used it to have a bit of a play with a couple of Linux installs. Linux Mint and ZorinOS 12 were 2 that i remember - just so i could experience what this whole Linux thing was about.


the Virtual PC software was VMWare. I don't know if there are better ones but that's the one i chose.

toshi

Wow, you have fixed the problem, Congratulation. I often use Macrium Reflect Bootable Rescue CD (free) to repair Windows bootloader issues.



This is far more powerful than Windows recovery Disk.



How To Create Macrium Reflect Bootable Rescue CD/USB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaavGMjTfgM

esuhl

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Right, problem solved, thankfully.

Yay! :j

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

C: 256GB SSD
E: 2TB SSHD
...
when you'd boot to the drive and go in My Computer, E cannot 'see' C but when you boot to the C drive C >can< 'see' E.

Is that still the case? It might be fixable. What's the make and model of the SSD?

JustAnotherSaver

esuhl wrote: »

Is that still the case? It might be fixable. What's the make and model of the SSD?

No no, it's fixed. I don't 'want' the bootable drives to 'see' each other. I remove the drive letter from within disk management.