Alright, so two days ago, I left my computer on to defrag while I went out to eat.
I came back, and it was fine. I turned it off and went to bed, and the next morning it was at a black boot screen with an error. I'd already fixed that, then today it presented me with another error.
at startup, when I want to boot into my Windows 7 Ultimate partition, I get a message that says:
Windows Failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
Here, it prompts me to insert my repair disk, which I've done several times already, and it tries to fix the boot sector, because it thinks it's corrupt for some reason. In doing research, i've come to the conclusion that it's total BS and the bootsector and winload.exe are NOT corrupt. instead it's an error with a BSD file or otherwise.
Which leads me to ANOTHER problem; I had bitlocker on this drive, it was inactive at the time, but safe mode and the repair disk don't know otherwise, they tell me that there's no recovery key on it, and it can't be fixed. and I get no option other than 'finish' and I can't put in my bitlocker key to it.
now, I had a laptop SSD with windows 7 Ultimate on it also, and I put it in to the computer with a SATA and power cable, and that's how I know i can't access my main seagate drive, however i'm looking for fixes to this.
A google search reveals many people have the same booting problem, and it's only ever fixed with commands that aren't working for me because of bitlocker, or by reinstalling(I can't reinstall, I have EXTREMELY important projects in Unity on that drive).
Now, I've tried fixmbr as follows:
Fixmbr /ScanOs (detects no OS on any drive of my five)
I've also tried diskpart to locate my windows partition on the drive and mark it as active from within the repair disk, so that all my commands are acting to it, from the disk.
I've tried bootgfs /rebuild, /scan, and all others in order as instructed from another post on a microsoft forum, and to no avail.
I'm about to download the bitlocker recovery tool to see if I can work this out, but in the meantime I would appreciate some feedback, if any. and quite urgently if possible.:uhoh:
I came back, and it was fine. I turned it off and went to bed, and the next morning it was at a black boot screen with an error. I'd already fixed that, then today it presented me with another error.
at startup, when I want to boot into my Windows 7 Ultimate partition, I get a message that says:
Windows Failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
Here, it prompts me to insert my repair disk, which I've done several times already, and it tries to fix the boot sector, because it thinks it's corrupt for some reason. In doing research, i've come to the conclusion that it's total BS and the bootsector and winload.exe are NOT corrupt. instead it's an error with a BSD file or otherwise.
Which leads me to ANOTHER problem; I had bitlocker on this drive, it was inactive at the time, but safe mode and the repair disk don't know otherwise, they tell me that there's no recovery key on it, and it can't be fixed. and I get no option other than 'finish' and I can't put in my bitlocker key to it.
now, I had a laptop SSD with windows 7 Ultimate on it also, and I put it in to the computer with a SATA and power cable, and that's how I know i can't access my main seagate drive, however i'm looking for fixes to this.
A google search reveals many people have the same booting problem, and it's only ever fixed with commands that aren't working for me because of bitlocker, or by reinstalling(I can't reinstall, I have EXTREMELY important projects in Unity on that drive).
Now, I've tried fixmbr as follows:
Fixmbr /ScanOs (detects no OS on any drive of my five)
I've also tried diskpart to locate my windows partition on the drive and mark it as active from within the repair disk, so that all my commands are acting to it, from the disk.
I've tried bootgfs /rebuild, /scan, and all others in order as instructed from another post on a microsoft forum, and to no avail.
I'm about to download the bitlocker recovery tool to see if I can work this out, but in the meantime I would appreciate some feedback, if any. and quite urgently if possible.:uhoh: