xilolee Moderator Staff member Joined Dec 31, 2013 Posts 3,670 Location World, Europe, Italy Jan 7, 2018 #61 Docfxit said: Currently bootrec /ScanOs gives me these results: Code: Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while... Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 1 [1] E:\WINDOWS The operation completed successfully. Click to expand... Then, you changed volume (e:) and saw what it contained: your windows 7 unbootable os or the other win7 bootable os or XP, right? Which one of the three?
Docfxit said: Currently bootrec /ScanOs gives me these results: Code: Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while... Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 1 [1] E:\WINDOWS The operation completed successfully. Click to expand... Then, you changed volume (e:) and saw what it contained: your windows 7 unbootable os or the other win7 bootable os or XP, right? Which one of the three?
D Docfxit Contributor Joined Feb 22, 2015 Posts 248 Jan 8, 2018 #62 softwaremaniac said: And both checked out? Click to expand... There were no problems with either of them. Thanks, Docfxit
softwaremaniac said: And both checked out? Click to expand... There were no problems with either of them. Thanks, Docfxit
D Docfxit Contributor Joined Feb 22, 2015 Posts 248 Jan 8, 2018 #63 xilolee said: Docfxit said: Currently bootrec /ScanOs gives me these results: Code: Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while... Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 1 [1] E:\WINDOWS The operation completed successfully. Click to expand... Then, you changed volume (e:) and saw what it contained: your windows 7 unbootable os or the other win7 bootable os or XP, right? Which one of the three? Click to expand... This time when I went into Recovery console it wanted to repair the XP partition. So I let it. When I ran bootrec /ScanOs I got: Code: Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while... Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0 The operation completed successfully. Then I ran BCDEdit and got this: Code: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=D: path \bootmgr description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {default} displayorder {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {default} {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} timeout 5 displaybootmenu Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=D: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7_OS locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} bootdebug No osdevice partition=D: systemroot \Windows nx OptIn Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=F: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 Ultimate locale en-US osdevice partition=F: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {720b612e-f338-11e7-9951-806e6f6e6963} Real-mode Boot Sector --------------------- identifier {default} device partition=F: path \NST\ntldr description Microsoft Windows XP locale en-US custom:250000c2 0 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=E: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows XP (recovered) locale en-US osdevice partition=E: systemroot \WINDOWS The newly added Windows Boot Loader Microsoft Windows XP (recovered) Doesn't boot. It seems to me I should run my bat file to restore everything back to your modifications. Thanks, Docfxit
xilolee said: Docfxit said: Currently bootrec /ScanOs gives me these results: Code: Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while... Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 1 [1] E:\WINDOWS The operation completed successfully. Click to expand... Then, you changed volume (e:) and saw what it contained: your windows 7 unbootable os or the other win7 bootable os or XP, right? Which one of the three? Click to expand... This time when I went into Recovery console it wanted to repair the XP partition. So I let it. When I ran bootrec /ScanOs I got: Code: Scanning all disks for Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while... Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0 The operation completed successfully. Then I ran BCDEdit and got this: Code: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=D: path \bootmgr description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {default} displayorder {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {default} {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} timeout 5 displaybootmenu Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=D: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7_OS locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} bootdebug No osdevice partition=D: systemroot \Windows nx OptIn Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=F: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 Ultimate locale en-US osdevice partition=F: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {720b612e-f338-11e7-9951-806e6f6e6963} Real-mode Boot Sector --------------------- identifier {default} device partition=F: path \NST\ntldr description Microsoft Windows XP locale en-US custom:250000c2 0 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=E: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows XP (recovered) locale en-US osdevice partition=E: systemroot \WINDOWS The newly added Windows Boot Loader Microsoft Windows XP (recovered) Doesn't boot. It seems to me I should run my bat file to restore everything back to your modifications. Thanks, Docfxit
xilolee Moderator Staff member Joined Dec 31, 2013 Posts 3,670 Location World, Europe, Italy Jan 9, 2018 #64 Just use bootrec /fixboot without other commands.
D Docfxit Contributor Joined Feb 22, 2015 Posts 248 Jan 10, 2018 #65 xilolee said: Just use bootrec /fixboot without other commands. Click to expand... I ran bootrec /fixboot successfully. It's still not booting from XP Recovered. This is the latest BCDEDIT: Code: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: path \bootmgr description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {default} displayorder {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {default} {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} timeout 5 displaybootmenu Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7_OS locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} bootdebug No osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows nx OptIn Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=F: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 Ultimate locale en-US osdevice partition=F: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {720b612e-f338-11e7-9951-806e6f6e6963} Real-mode Boot Sector --------------------- identifier {default} device partition=F: path \NST\ntldr description Microsoft Windows XP locale en-US custom:250000c2 0 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=E: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows XP (recovered) locale en-US osdevice partition=E: systemroot \WINDOWS Thanks, Docfxit
xilolee said: Just use bootrec /fixboot without other commands. Click to expand... I ran bootrec /fixboot successfully. It's still not booting from XP Recovered. This is the latest BCDEDIT: Code: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: path \bootmgr description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {default} displayorder {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} {default} {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} timeout 5 displaybootmenu Yes Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b2-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7_OS locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} bootdebug No osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows nx OptIn Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b4-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=F: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 Ultimate locale en-US osdevice partition=F: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {720b612e-f338-11e7-9951-806e6f6e6963} Real-mode Boot Sector --------------------- identifier {default} device partition=F: path \NST\ntldr description Microsoft Windows XP locale en-US custom:250000c2 0 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {180435b6-f338-11e7-b961-f62f4e29a442} device partition=E: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows XP (recovered) locale en-US osdevice partition=E: systemroot \WINDOWS Thanks, Docfxit