Hi all, new to this forum and embarrassed to say the least.
Yesterday I used EBCD to re write the MBR as every time I logged into my second boot (a 32bit install) it kept logging into my first boot (a 64bit install). So i tried EBCD to repair and rewrite. It didnt work, so I tried to reset (reconfigure i think) EBCD, added the two installs and saved, but now, I can not login to anything, as when I get to where the boot loader choices are, there is an error window with......
file: / boot / easybcd
ae000000026 (or something like that)
Not much help, sorry, its all I can remember, but my question is...
Can I use a USB stick with a recovery program from EasyBCD to repair my two HD boot entries or are they nacked ? I really just want to be able to access them from within windows for now. I am in the process of building a standby desktop PC (using bits from the troubled PC) and should be up and running tonight with a fresh Win7 64bit install and will have to add the two defunct hard drives one by one to try and save them, or have I irreversibly killed them.
If anyone can help, you'd be heroes.
I've just bought and downloaded to my phone the .iso file Easy recovery Essentials. Will have a go tonight.
I did this as I can see on other threads (https://neosmart.net/wiki/recovering-windows-bootloader/) there were CMD entries to make to try and force a BCD rewrite, but I tried a few things last night, like bootcfg.exe commands and fixboot etc, but all came back with replies that the HD returned no information. Dir/list etc was the same.
I tried a recovery disk, but it said the EULA info was missing so stopped. I tried an install disk hoping to get into the repair side, but went straight to choose language, that bit before it asks where to install the new OS. That means it recognises no installations of any Windows system, not a good sign imo. So resorted to the Essentials in the hope that it will sort it out.
Fingers X'ed
Yesterday I used EBCD to re write the MBR as every time I logged into my second boot (a 32bit install) it kept logging into my first boot (a 64bit install). So i tried EBCD to repair and rewrite. It didnt work, so I tried to reset (reconfigure i think) EBCD, added the two installs and saved, but now, I can not login to anything, as when I get to where the boot loader choices are, there is an error window with......
file: / boot / easybcd
ae000000026 (or something like that)
Not much help, sorry, its all I can remember, but my question is...
Can I use a USB stick with a recovery program from EasyBCD to repair my two HD boot entries or are they nacked ? I really just want to be able to access them from within windows for now. I am in the process of building a standby desktop PC (using bits from the troubled PC) and should be up and running tonight with a fresh Win7 64bit install and will have to add the two defunct hard drives one by one to try and save them, or have I irreversibly killed them.
If anyone can help, you'd be heroes.
I've just bought and downloaded to my phone the .iso file Easy recovery Essentials. Will have a go tonight.
I did this as I can see on other threads (https://neosmart.net/wiki/recovering-windows-bootloader/) there were CMD entries to make to try and force a BCD rewrite, but I tried a few things last night, like bootcfg.exe commands and fixboot etc, but all came back with replies that the HD returned no information. Dir/list etc was the same.
I tried a recovery disk, but it said the EULA info was missing so stopped. I tried an install disk hoping to get into the repair side, but went straight to choose language, that bit before it asks where to install the new OS. That means it recognises no installations of any Windows system, not a good sign imo. So resorted to the Essentials in the hope that it will sort it out.
Fingers X'ed
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