Windows Boot Manager Won't Load

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mshupp

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Machine powers up, then the bios screen, then just a blank screen with a blinking cursor... and windows boot manager doesn't load. What can I do to get it to load?

There's a small FAT partition first on the drive, then an XP partition, then a Windows 7 partition with EasyBCD
 
Terry60

Terry60

Telephone Sanitizer (2nd Class)
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Firstly, check the connections to the HDD. (disconnect/reconnect several times for a desktop, eject/reinsert for a laptop, to clean up the pins)
If that has no effect, get a bootable Linux distro (for example), burn it to a CD, boot your PC from the CD and run Linux in "do not install, run from the CD" mode.
Use the system / partition editor to examine your HDD and check that your Windows "system" drive (Linux will flag it as "boot") is also marked "active" (that tells the MBR where to look for the boot files).
If the wrong partition is marked active, change it to the right one and boot again without the CD.
 
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