Unable to Boot Windows 7

How to repair MBR on Windows 7
http://www.ehow.com/how_4836283_repair-mbr-windows.html

How To: Repair And Restore Windows Vista Master Boot Record (MBR)
http://www.tomstricks.com/how-to-repair-and-restore-windows-vista-master-boot-record-mbr/

Have you tried bootrec /fixboot? Or the other commands?

This KB tells how to use /FixMbr and /FixBoot and other options

Support for Windows Vista without any service packs installed ended on April 13, 2010. To continue
receiving security updates for Windows, make sure you're running Windows Vista with Service Pack 2
(SP2). This also applied to Windows 7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Also check your BIOS settings required for the drive.

Hope this helps.

No, ive already tried all of those standard options. As I said before "bootrec /fixboot" and "bootrec /fixmbr" cannot execute becuase an error is returned that a device attached to the system is not functioning.

BIOS settings are fine.

Thanks!

UPDATE:

Startup Repair says this in the report:

Partition table is corrupt on disk.

Repair Action: Partition Table Repair

Result. Failed. Error code = 0x54f

Ideas?

Hi,

Have you ran partition tests on the drive from ubuntu? You may need to reformat the partition
and re-install Windows 7.

Disk partitioning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning

Possibly it can be repaired :

From the Command Prompt of the Recovery Console (if you have one) or from a Vista/Windows
7 disk - if you do not have a Vista/Windows 7 disk you can borrow a friend's (it needs to be same
32 or 64 bit and they are not copy protected) or make one. Also your System maker will sell the
physical disks cheap since you already own Windows.

chkdsk /f /r

REBOOT

Space after k and before /  and after f and before /

sfc /scannow

REBOOT

Space after c and before /

How to Boot to the System Recovery Options in Windows 7
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

What are the system recovery options in Windows 7?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7

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If you do not have a Vista/Windows 7 disk you can borrow a friends as they are not copy
protected. Your System maker will also sell the physical DVD cheap since you already
own Windows. Also you can make a repair disk on another computer.

If you need to make repair disks - these help repair Windows not re-install.

How to Create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

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If CheckDisk fails to complete as above :

(The old 302602 links is not valid now for the diagnostic links.)

Diagnostic Utilities By Manufacturer - run the one for your hard drive
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/hard-drive-support/462298-no-ide-device-found.html

Corrected list as of 6-09-2010

Fujitsu Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here
http://www.fujitsu.com/emea/products/hdd/

Hitachi Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here
http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/

IBM Hard Drives: Use Hitachi Utilities*

Toshiba Hard Drives: Use Hitachi or Maxtor Utilities

Maxtor Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here (now SeaGate)
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/

Quantum Hard Drives: Use Maxtor Utilities

Seagate Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads

Conner Hard Drives: Use Seagate Utilities

Samsung Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/

Western Digital Hard Drives: Diagnostic Utilities Here
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?lang=en

The trial versions of one of these "might" help.

SpeedFan
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

HD Tune
http://www.hdtune.com/

Hope this helps.

chkdsk /f /r returns:

The file system is NTFS.\

Cannot lock current volume.

Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.

sfc /scannow returns:

"there is a system repair pending which require a restart to complete. Restart windows and rus sfc again"

Thanks.

Hi,

Chkdsk C: /f /r

You need to specify the drive or it is trying to check the CD/DVD drive.

I doubt this will work, I'm sorry if I didnt make this clear in the past, but windows doesnt see any of my partitions. If i run diskpart and select my hard drive and then execute "list partitions", there are no partitions. C: wont mean anything to the system. I assume this is close to the root of the problem, why isint windows recognizing my partitions, while I am able to access, read, write on them from ubuntu. Never the less I'll see what happens.

Thanks