hi,
I have a dell alienware 14 running windows 8 which wont boot
im getting no boot device found. have checked bios and its in legacy mode, ata, hard drive top of list of boot options.
shift-f8 should bring up recovery but isn't
have put in a windows 8 disk and tried automatic repair (couldn't repair, try other options) ,refresh (the drive where windows is installed is locked), system restore (to use system restore you must specify which installation to restore, restart computer etc ) and reset (a required drive partition is missing)
I have also tried sfc /scannow but this wont run with "windows resource protection could not start the repair service"
also I tried chkdsk /r but got write protected error msg
in diskpart I have
volume 0 d: dvd drive
volume 1 c: OS
volume 2 ESP fat32 (this is the efi part right?)
volume 3 winretools
volume 4
volume 5 pbr image
volume 6 DIAGS
View attachment win8 fix.txt
the attached file shows what I was going through to try and fix issue but when I get as far as:
"Exit DiskPart tool by entering exit and at the command prompt run the following:
cd /d b:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot"
I get stuck, I tried changing efi to esp but that doesn't help, both times I get "the system cannot find the path specified"
any help would be fantastic,
cheers
Darren
EDIT: sorry guys just removed a couple of paragraphs from text file as it was misleading as I haven't done any cloning
I have a dell alienware 14 running windows 8 which wont boot
im getting no boot device found. have checked bios and its in legacy mode, ata, hard drive top of list of boot options.
shift-f8 should bring up recovery but isn't
have put in a windows 8 disk and tried automatic repair (couldn't repair, try other options) ,refresh (the drive where windows is installed is locked), system restore (to use system restore you must specify which installation to restore, restart computer etc ) and reset (a required drive partition is missing)
I have also tried sfc /scannow but this wont run with "windows resource protection could not start the repair service"
also I tried chkdsk /r but got write protected error msg
in diskpart I have
volume 0 d: dvd drive
volume 1 c: OS
volume 2 ESP fat32 (this is the efi part right?)
volume 3 winretools
volume 4
volume 5 pbr image
volume 6 DIAGS
View attachment win8 fix.txt
the attached file shows what I was going through to try and fix issue but when I get as far as:
"Exit DiskPart tool by entering exit and at the command prompt run the following:
cd /d b:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot"
I get stuck, I tried changing efi to esp but that doesn't help, both times I get "the system cannot find the path specified"
any help would be fantastic,
cheers
Darren
EDIT: sorry guys just removed a couple of paragraphs from text file as it was misleading as I haven't done any cloning
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