OS Won't Boot, Cant Access C; To Recreate BCD Store?
Jan 1, 2013
My brother-in-law's computer is running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium. When the computer is power on it goes pass POST then does not find a bootable device, so these are the steps I've done so far.Booted to Windows 7 CD and tried the following:1. startup repair2. bootrec /fixmbr, /fixboot and /rebuildbcd - when rebuildbcd I get "Total identified Windows installations: 0"3. bootsect /nt60 c:4. command prompt and using DISKPART found that the only disk in the system was not active, so I made it active and now when I boot the system I get NTLDR missing5. bcdedit - I get access denied when accessing C:now I'm stuck ... i've read several forums, including this one, but I can't find a solution to this problemmaybe because c: is not accessible, windows repair does not see the installation of windows?
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