Posted by Sir Four at 10:18am Jun 1 '12My wife was downloading Sims 3 content using whatever program EA put out to do such a thing, and the system crashed. She restarted, and now it won't boot successfully.
Here's the setup, which may offer clues. Win7 is on an SSD drive. There's a mechanical drive which was once an XP drive, but which is no longer listed as the primary boot drive in BIOS. So when you power on, Win7 normally boots up. What started happening is, after the bios stuff completes, a screen comes up saying Press Enter to Use Windows XP. No mention of Win7 at all. XP then fails to boot, and the system restarts.
If I physically disconnect the XP drive from the motherboard, the system tries to load Win7. This proceeds for a few seconds, then the thing retarts. Upon loading again, Win7 says it'll try to repair and revert to an earlier configuration, blah blah... this also fails. "Windows was not able to repair your system."
And that's where I stand right now. Any ideas? I'm not much of a fix-it person when it comes to OS problems.
Here's the setup, which may offer clues. Win7 is on an SSD drive. There's a mechanical drive which was once an XP drive, but which is no longer listed as the primary boot drive in BIOS. So when you power on, Win7 normally boots up. What started happening is, after the bios stuff completes, a screen comes up saying Press Enter to Use Windows XP. No mention of Win7 at all. XP then fails to boot, and the system restarts.
If I physically disconnect the XP drive from the motherboard, the system tries to load Win7. This proceeds for a few seconds, then the thing retarts. Upon loading again, Win7 says it'll try to repair and revert to an earlier configuration, blah blah... this also fails. "Windows was not able to repair your system."
And that's where I stand right now. Any ideas? I'm not much of a fix-it person when it comes to OS problems.
Windows 7 Won't Boot, Any Ideas? - Sir Four