Windows 8 boot error

rafspek

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This could be quite long as I'm trying to give all details that could possibly be needed. Please read it though, I could really do with some help, I'm at my wits end! :(
A few weeks ago when I had windows 7 ultimate, I came across a "BOOTMGR is missing" error. This was just after cloning my old failing WD HDD (lets call it HDD2) onto a old, but perfect condition Maxtor HDD (lets call it HDD1) (not very old. Still sata). So for some reason it looked like the cloning software (EASEUS I think) for some reason hadn't cloned BOOTMGR or any boot files. Eventually I ended up sticking in HDD2 for some reason, and suddenly it worked. So I think it must of had HDD2 down as the boot drive. I assumed it was using the boot procedures in HDD2 to get into the OS on HDD1, most likely incorrect as the thing I understand least about computers is boot procedures. Always been a problem area for me. Most likely due to my stupid laziness, I never thought to fix it cause it was doing the job for me. Two days ago I 'upgraded' to windows 8 pro x64 and that all went fine, apart from a few partitioning errors (definitely not related to this). Today I got a new Seagate HDD and I was going to clone HDD1 to that and upgrade to it. I got my cloning software disc at the ready, took out HDD2 (forgetting about my little BOOTMGR setup) and stuck in the brand new Seagate. Then I tried to boot and obviously got the BOOTMGR error again. So put HDD2 back in and booted up, naturally it worked again. I researched this a bit (ubuntu - How do I move the Windows 7 Boot Files (bootmgr, ...) to a different drive? - Super User) and ended up downloading EasyBCD and changing the boot drive to C:\, cause it was set as I:\ (the system reserved partition on HDD2). Which also might explain the BOOTMGR Missing errors when I took out HDD2, cause it was looking for I:\ to boot from, but couldn't find it and didn't bother looking for it on the OS Drive (bit stupid imo). I'm 90% sure when it changed the boot drive to C:\ it told me it would repair any BCD or BOOTMGR errors it found. So once I had done that, I thought "awesome, I'll be able to clone and upgrade now". So I quickly restarted and took out HDD2, just to check it had worked and...no. It came up with a different error this time.

An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain and operating system.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
:mad:

So naturally I googled it, but could only find the error from people with W7, which was weird. But came to this Windows failed to start and can't find operating system Solved - Page 3 - Windows 7 Help Forums and did these and a few other bootrec commands in cmd from the repair disc
Code:
[COLOR=#323232][FONT=verdana]bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#323232][FONT=verdana]bootrec /fixmbr[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#323232][FONT=verdana]bootrec/fixboot[/FONT][/COLOR]
They did not work.

So yeah, I'm stuck. If you have read all of this, thank you so much. Sorry it was so long!
Just remembered, I also tried 'System Restore', but that didn't work. Just spat out error 0x8000ffff.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asmodeus 2.1
    CPU
    AMD FX-6350
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A99FX PRO r2.0
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Medion 19", Polaroid 19"
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900
    Hard Drives
    WD Velociraptor 600GB
    Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB (ST500DM002)
    Maxtor 160GB 3.5" SATA 3GB/s
    WD Blue 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s
    PSU
    Corsair CX600M
    Case
    Zalman Z9 Plus
    Cooling
    3 Zalman Blue LED Fans, 1 Standard Zalman Molex Fan. AMD FX stock cooler
    Keyboard
    Apple Wired Aluminium Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M205 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Ping: 21ms Download: 16.69Mbps Upload: 1.00Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    AVG Free 2014
    Other Info
    GPU OC'd from 920 core and 1250 memory to 975 core and 1350 memory

    CPU OC'd from 3.9 to 4.3
Just tried it that, even ran automatic repair 7 times. Didn't work :(
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asmodeus 2.1
    CPU
    AMD FX-6350
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A99FX PRO r2.0
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Medion 19", Polaroid 19"
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900
    Hard Drives
    WD Velociraptor 600GB
    Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB (ST500DM002)
    Maxtor 160GB 3.5" SATA 3GB/s
    WD Blue 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s
    PSU
    Corsair CX600M
    Case
    Zalman Z9 Plus
    Cooling
    3 Zalman Blue LED Fans, 1 Standard Zalman Molex Fan. AMD FX stock cooler
    Keyboard
    Apple Wired Aluminium Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M205 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Ping: 21ms Download: 16.69Mbps Upload: 1.00Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    AVG Free 2014
    Other Info
    GPU OC'd from 920 core and 1250 memory to 975 core and 1350 memory

    CPU OC'd from 3.9 to 4.3
Sometimes Automatic Repair wont work, if the drive has read element failure, which Windows 8 causes when it is shut down ungracefully sometimes. You will need to scan your Hard Drive with the Dos program made by OEM who made the drive, WDDiag or Seagate Seatools. Maxtor has a similar tool, stick them all on a Bootable CD and run them one by one, testing each drive, do a full scan on the drive that has your System files, if that's WD then you need WDDiag.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro with Media Center/Windows 7
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
    CPU
    AMD 4400+/4200+
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
    Memory
    2 GB/3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
    Sound Card
    nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    "1842 x 1036"
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
    ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
    WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
    WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
    WD My Book 1140 USB Device
    PSU
    Works 550w
    Case
    MSI "M-Box"
    Cooling
    Water Cooled
    Keyboard
    Dell Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse
    Internet Speed
    Cable Medium Speed
    Browser
    Chrome/IE 10
    Antivirus
    Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
    Other Info
    Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.
I'll try that now. How do I put more than one of them on one disc?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asmodeus 2.1
    CPU
    AMD FX-6350
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A99FX PRO r2.0
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Medion 19", Polaroid 19"
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900
    Hard Drives
    WD Velociraptor 600GB
    Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB (ST500DM002)
    Maxtor 160GB 3.5" SATA 3GB/s
    WD Blue 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s
    PSU
    Corsair CX600M
    Case
    Zalman Z9 Plus
    Cooling
    3 Zalman Blue LED Fans, 1 Standard Zalman Molex Fan. AMD FX stock cooler
    Keyboard
    Apple Wired Aluminium Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M205 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Ping: 21ms Download: 16.69Mbps Upload: 1.00Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    AVG Free 2014
    Other Info
    GPU OC'd from 920 core and 1250 memory to 975 core and 1350 memory

    CPU OC'd from 3.9 to 4.3
Just found out Seagate acquired Maxtor a number of years ago, and can't find a Maxtor website. Google searches of Maxtor direct me straight to Seagate. Should I use Seagate Tools?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asmodeus 2.1
    CPU
    AMD FX-6350
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A99FX PRO r2.0
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Medion 19", Polaroid 19"
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900
    Hard Drives
    WD Velociraptor 600GB
    Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB (ST500DM002)
    Maxtor 160GB 3.5" SATA 3GB/s
    WD Blue 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s
    PSU
    Corsair CX600M
    Case
    Zalman Z9 Plus
    Cooling
    3 Zalman Blue LED Fans, 1 Standard Zalman Molex Fan. AMD FX stock cooler
    Keyboard
    Apple Wired Aluminium Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M205 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Ping: 21ms Download: 16.69Mbps Upload: 1.00Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    AVG Free 2014
    Other Info
    GPU OC'd from 920 core and 1250 memory to 975 core and 1350 memory

    CPU OC'd from 3.9 to 4.3
Got angry and just reinstalled Windows 8
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asmodeus 2.1
    CPU
    AMD FX-6350
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A99FX PRO r2.0
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Medion 19", Polaroid 19"
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900
    Hard Drives
    WD Velociraptor 600GB
    Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB (ST500DM002)
    Maxtor 160GB 3.5" SATA 3GB/s
    WD Blue 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s
    PSU
    Corsair CX600M
    Case
    Zalman Z9 Plus
    Cooling
    3 Zalman Blue LED Fans, 1 Standard Zalman Molex Fan. AMD FX stock cooler
    Keyboard
    Apple Wired Aluminium Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech M205 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Ping: 21ms Download: 16.69Mbps Upload: 1.00Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    AVG Free 2014
    Other Info
    GPU OC'd from 920 core and 1250 memory to 975 core and 1350 memory

    CPU OC'd from 3.9 to 4.3
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