Recent content by Shifted

Oh yeah. I'm never doing it the way I did ever again haha. I'll let you know if it works or not. And thanks for showing me Hirens boot disc. it's the most useful/complete boot disc ive ever seen

I've resolved to saving as much as I can on the 160 and nuking the 750. Thanks for helping me out anyways (you've got rep!). I actually learnt a bit while doing this. But from what i know about the registry going down it's going to be a whole other monster to repair. I hope this thread can solve...

Okay. The quick test completed without any errors. And I'm able to read the registry files. Annd dammit. Registry is corrupted, as i expected. I'm going to try a refresh again just to see. Edit: Drive is locked error when i hit refresh. Seems im gonna have to do it the hard way.

In a newer version maybe?

GW scan is part of the Hiren suite right? If it is i can't locate it.

Got some good news and some bad news. Good news, winload works! Bad news, still can't load \windows\system32\config\system But then that let us know two things. One: the bootloader CLEARLY finds the correct HDD which leads to two: either winload or some other file in the boot sequence is messed...

Great! I hope this works. I backed up the original and i replaced the winload with the one i found in boot. I'll try that first and if that doesn't work ill go into mini xp and change drive letters. Man why does Windows 8 have to be so different? lol

"Drive C" directly returns "not recognized." Diskpart > list volume though shows C as the 750 (win8) and D as the 160 (win7). EDIT: When i performed the search for winload on the Win8 drive it returned a bit of them in \WinSxS\amd64_mircosoft-windows....etc. The one anomaly i found is that...

Alright. So that's done. When trying to boot to windows 8, now it can't find winload.exe. From what I understand from what you said about the recovery partition however, the bootloader is now looking for winload on recovery partition which now no longer exists. If that's so, how can i aim it in...

Alright. I'll give it a shot.

Alright. And yes i do have a Win8 install disc. Let me know if you're able to deal with the recovery partition issue. Edit: Still no luck. Its still booting to win8 recovery without fail. Continue to Windows 8 invokes a reboot. And also, im seeing a good deal of partition on my HDDs. Which one...

Alright. I fired up the disc and I brought up the win7 boot loader. I hit win8 and it took me to the recovery environment which is good. I hit continue to windows*8 and my computer just rebooted. Ill do some more tinkering. Edit: Startup settings gives me a d000034 error. "something did not...

Oh okay. Got it.

Oh man. Yeah. I ran both commands. Bootrec i ran to repair the boot record and bcdedit in an attempt to stop automatic repair from running since it was just a waste to time when booting up. Okay. I went I found that there is a later version of it, 15.2. Download that instead or 13 specifically?

Alright. Thanks for the insight. I'm definitely going to keep that in mind the next time that comes up. I'll try it now. EDIT: The gods must be angry at something i did because the boot loader inexplicably shows up no longer (BIOS boot order switching and everything). Now it just goes straight...