Hello all,
I am in need of your expertise. I've been having an issue since few weeks and I'm running out of idea. First of all, it is not an issue with EasyBCD. I have tried EasyBCD to help me resolve the issue, but no luck. I'm posting here to, hopefully, gets an answer to my issue. The issue is that after the POST, a flashing cursor will appear for a minute or 2 and then Windows 7 x64 will eventually boots up. While the cursor is flashing, my hard drive LED is steady and sometimes flashing, as if the BIOS was looking for Windows. Before getting into what I have tried to fix this issue, let me tell you how it started.
Back in November, my main hard drive (which contains a partition for Windows and another for my data) had issues. It was dying and I got a replacement by Western Digital. My hard drive is a WD Black 500GB. My replacement hard drive did not arrive in time and my hard drive died. Few days before it died, I created a Windows backup of my Windows partition only, not my data. When the replacement hard drive arrived, I restored the Windows partition to the new hard drive. However, Windows would not allow me to restore my backup made by Windows Backup & Restore, I had to use Acronis (which supports Windows backups). Since this time, I've been having the flashing cursor issue. Windows will always boot, so it is not a critical issue, but it is annoying to wait a minute or 2 more than it should take.
I have tried EasyBCD to modify/recreate BCD. I have tried bootrec and all its switches numerous times. I have tried many tutorials such as http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/rebuild-bcd-store-windows.htm.
Nothing fixes this issue. Of course, I made sure in the BIOS that my hard drive is the first boot device. All my other hard drives are deactivated in the boot sequence. The fact that my hard drive LED comes on right after POST let me think that the BIOS is looking for Windows...but I don't know why it takes so much time to finds it.
I don't know if the issue appears because I restored only the Windows partition or because I used Acronis to restore my Windows backup.
Anyone have clues ?
Thank you !!
Guillaume.
I am in need of your expertise. I've been having an issue since few weeks and I'm running out of idea. First of all, it is not an issue with EasyBCD. I have tried EasyBCD to help me resolve the issue, but no luck. I'm posting here to, hopefully, gets an answer to my issue. The issue is that after the POST, a flashing cursor will appear for a minute or 2 and then Windows 7 x64 will eventually boots up. While the cursor is flashing, my hard drive LED is steady and sometimes flashing, as if the BIOS was looking for Windows. Before getting into what I have tried to fix this issue, let me tell you how it started.
Back in November, my main hard drive (which contains a partition for Windows and another for my data) had issues. It was dying and I got a replacement by Western Digital. My hard drive is a WD Black 500GB. My replacement hard drive did not arrive in time and my hard drive died. Few days before it died, I created a Windows backup of my Windows partition only, not my data. When the replacement hard drive arrived, I restored the Windows partition to the new hard drive. However, Windows would not allow me to restore my backup made by Windows Backup & Restore, I had to use Acronis (which supports Windows backups). Since this time, I've been having the flashing cursor issue. Windows will always boot, so it is not a critical issue, but it is annoying to wait a minute or 2 more than it should take.
I have tried EasyBCD to modify/recreate BCD. I have tried bootrec and all its switches numerous times. I have tried many tutorials such as http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/rebuild-bcd-store-windows.htm.
Nothing fixes this issue. Of course, I made sure in the BIOS that my hard drive is the first boot device. All my other hard drives are deactivated in the boot sequence. The fact that my hard drive LED comes on right after POST let me think that the BIOS is looking for Windows...but I don't know why it takes so much time to finds it.
I don't know if the issue appears because I restored only the Windows partition or because I used Acronis to restore my Windows backup.
Anyone have clues ?
Thank you !!
Guillaume.