And I see now what you were doing wrong in the manual repair steps in the
wiki.
if i follow your instructions in
Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
step 1: ok
step 2: ok
step 3: when i enter "del C:\boot\bcd bootrec.exe /rebuild"" i get "Invalid switch - "rebuild""
As Terry said in Post #2, those commands needed to be
Code:
del C:\boot\bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
As you can see, they are actually two separate commands, and you're not supposed to try to combine them into one command, as you did.
Your next mistake was:
after i restart and go through the motions again i get same as above with exception of problem signature 04 this time its 1507351
to step 4:
not 100% s
ure what i should be replacing the X: with i have
vista (C Data(D WinRE(F Boot (X
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force gives me
"Repairs critical disk structures The following commands are supported"
If F: is your "boot" partition (i.e. the "system" partition that contains your boot files, namely bootmgr, and boot/BCD), which means you'll need to change the bootmgr entry in your BCD to point back at that partition, instead of C: (since you changed it as per my instructions, though I stated, I thought clearly enough, to replace it whatever drive letter was your "system" partition), then the command you needed to run there was
Code:
cd /d C:\Program Files\NeoSmart Technologies\EasyBCD\bin
bootsect.exe /nt60 F: /force
since bootsect.exe is not on our recovery disk, but does exist in the EasyBCD /bin directory.
And then here, it
del C:\boot\bcd
"could not find C:\boot\bcd"
indicated that you were already missing the BCD file (though you recreated it running the next couple of commands) if you posted what you did, in order:
bcdedit /createstore c:\boot\bcd.temp
"the store creation operation has failed Cannot create a file when that file already exixts"
The above command was not able to create it because apparently this was not the first time you had run it, hence the message that the file already existed.
bcdedit.exe /store c:\boot\bcd.temp /create {bootmgr} /d "Windows Boot Manager"
"the system couuld not find the file specified"
That would seem to indicate that you either deleted the file after running the command before it, or wrote it right into your post, though you typed it wrong originally when you ran the command (though that is only a guess). Basically, it does not add up.
bcdedit.exe /import c:\boot\bcd.temp
"the operaation completed successfully"
Another strange occurance, because how could it restore from that file, if it did not exist? :brows:
bcdedit.exe /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:
"the system cannot find the file specified"
Here you should have entered F: in, instead of C.
bcdedit.exe /timeout 10
"an error has occured setting the element data. the system cannot find the file specified"
Here, this may be a small mistake Guru made when he wrote the guide. I believe one would have to specify the BCD before being able to set the /timeout value, so you could have probably entered it right after the following command:
bcdedit.exe /store c:\boot\bcd.temp /create {bootmgr} /d "Windows Boot Manager"
and specified the file like this:
bcdedit.exe /store c:\boot\bcd.temp /timeout 10
That probably would have worked, but it is not really all that important, and certainly not your fault.
del c:\boot\bcd.temp
"here i dont get any response command prompt just moves on to next line waiting for further prompt"
No problem. You can be sure it deleted the temporary BCD file, though.
bcdedit.exe /create /d "Windows Vista" /application osloader
"the entry <c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4> was successfully created
Now, this where you obtained the GUID you were supposed to enter in, but instead you entered the following:
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} device partition=C:
"the ststem cannot find the file specified"
so naturally, the command did not work. What you were supposed to enter there was this command:
bcdedit.exe /set {c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4} device partition=F:
if F: is indeed your "system" and "active" partition. Notice that there I replaced what Guru wrote with the GUID returned to you after you ran the command before it, which is what you were supposed to do.
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} osdevice partition=C:
"an error occured while attempting to reference the specified entry. The system cannot find the file specified
Another mistake...
It should have been:
bcdedit.exe /set {
c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4} osdevice partition=F:
Remember, you always replace that GUID in the instructions with
your GUID.
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
"the syatem cannot find the file specified"
Once again, the command should have been
bcdedit.exe /set {
c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4} path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
and again...
bcdedit.exe /set {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008} systemroot \Windows
"the system cannot find the file specified
it should have been run as
bcdedit.exe /set {
c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4} systemroot \Windows
bcdedit.exe /displayorder {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008}
"the syntax of the command is incorrect"
Again, the command should have been:
bcdedit.exe /displayorder {
c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4}
bcdedit.exe /default {c0dfc4fa-cb21-11dc-81bf-005056c00008}
"the syntax of the command is incorrect
and finally...
bcdedit.exe /default {
c8145c0c-3461-11de-8c46-fe65dfba3cd4}
i have restarted my computer and get windows boot manager screen where i get message "windows failed to start.
File: \boot\bcd
status: 0xc0000034
info the windows boot configuration data file is missing required information.
where am i going wrong PLEASE HELP
All of that is of course water under the bridge now, but re-reading this thread, I just thought I would point out those mistakes you made in the commands, so you can learn from them.
Possibly your system would be booting now had you followed the wiki guide, as it was written, but anyway, regardless, follow my last instructions, and your system should be booting again relatively soon.
Jake
Addendum:
when i type in bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu yes and hit enter i don't get any menu all i get is "The operation completed successfully"
Well, congrats. :brows: That means it worked.
Now reboot, and see if you get a boot menu.
