{"id":869,"date":"2013-10-31T20:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-11-21T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:45:02","slug":"windows-7-fails-to-boot-repair-doesnt-help-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 fails to boot &#038; repair from DVD doesn&#8217;t help either."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when Windows throws it&#8217;s toys out of the pram for what ever reason the automatic start up repair doesn&#8217;t work. You can of course try and run the same repair from the Windows 7 DVD but occasionally that doesn&#8217;t help \/ work either.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that its not a hard drive issue and that your Windows drive \/ data is still in tact, try the following to fully rebuild your boot loader.<\/p>\n<p>Boot from the Windows 7 DVD or Repair CD<\/p>\n<p>Click on install or Repair<\/p>\n<p>Press Shift + F10 to get to the console<\/p>\n<p>Type<br \/>\n<code>diskpart<\/code><br \/>\nand hit enter<\/p>\n<p>type<br \/>\n<code>list volume<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Check to see if your windows partition is listed as C:<\/p>\n<p>If not, use assign from within diskpart to change it<br \/>\n<code>help assign<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Type<br \/>\n<code>exit<\/code><br \/>\nTo leave diskpart<\/p>\n<p>Now type<br \/>\n<code>cd c:\\windows\\system32<\/code><br \/>\nand hit enter<\/p>\n<p>Type:<br \/>\n<code>bcdboot c:\\windows \/s c:<\/code><br \/>\nhit enter<\/p>\n<p>Type:<br \/>\n<code>shutdown -r -t 0<\/code><br \/>\nHit enter, remove DVD and you should be set!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when Windows throws it&#8217;s toys out of the pram for what ever reason the automatic start up repair doesn&#8217;t work. You can of course try and run the same repair from the Windows 7 DVD but occasionally that doesn&#8217;t help \/ work either. Assuming that its not a hard drive issue and that your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win-7-10-tips-tricks","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}