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I can't boot on my Windows 7 any more

by gilbutre Feb 3, 2010 5:51AM PST

Hi everybody,

I have Win7 on my HD no.1, XP on my HD no.2, and another old Win7 on my HD no.3.

After changing my power supply, I apparently swapped the SATA cables (that's what I imagine now but I did not think about this possibility at that time), and as a result no Win7 boot was possible any more. Some message appeared : "Windows cannot start, please repair it with.." or something like that (nothing about BOOTMGR).

Stupidly enough I copied BOOTMGR from my Win7 CD to my HD no.1. And now I can boot on XP and on my old win7, but not on my new Win7 on HD no.1. I can choose to boot on HD no.1 with F11 when I start my PC, but to no avail: it just boots on my HD no.3 old Win7.

What can I do to boot on my Win7 HD no.1 ?

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Have you tried

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Feb 3, 2010 8:11PM PST

booting from that Win 7 CD/DVD to repair the boot options?

Mark

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boot windows 7

by burebista gelu Feb 5, 2010 4:35PM PST

go in bios and check evriting step by step and clean the nvram,make partition,and will be easy to installed again,see if you dont have a probem,master and slave,put in bios all default settings and save it with f10

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Boot from CD/DVD

by TaraS_WinTeam Feb 6, 2010 5:34AM PST

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-is-a-boot-disk-startup-disk-and-why-would-I-need-one or explore other recovery options.

Tara

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