Harddrive froze and will no longer boot?

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After freezing the pc boots to Insert proper boot media.

Troubleshooting thus far:
- When using repair system on windows cd no operating systems show up in the list
-Hdd shows up in bios
- All files are accessible when accessed from liux live cd.
- bootrec.exe /ScanOs finds the drive with windows 7 ([1]C:\windows)
- bootrec.exe/Fixboot returns element not found

Any suggestions? Shoud I just reinstall windows or is there anyway to salvage this? I think there is just something wrong with the boot.
 
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Yeah sorry I wasn't more help. Uh, you could install windows on a new partition and see if it boots that way without having to lose all your data, then edit the newly created bootmgr to point to the other partition instead of that one. Then taking that bootmgr and plopping it in the older windows install.

Very unconventional, but whatever works.

Before you try that, you could try downloading and burning PLOP to a cd (its like 80mb or something so a cd will work if you have any.) then trying to boot from that into the first hdd. Its normally used for getting a system to boot off a USB that doesn't have support for it in the bios.

Think this is the right website: http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux/download.html

Again if anyone passing by...
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I don't remember, but I'm checking now. I know that I set that partition to active when I was in there.

In list disk all hdd show up as online. When I list disk 0 's partition it says partition type is primary. It doesn't say boot or active though.

Thanks
 
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It should be active then. I forget if disk part can tell you if a disk is bootable or not. I know it tells you if its primary. Might need to check in a linux live cd. Gparted would be your best bet really.

 
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What would I be able to do with Gparted? Could it potentially resolve this issue?

 
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Thanks. I just booted into puppy and I will give it a go.

I just checked it. There is a yellow triangle with an exclamation point nest to the partition /deve/sda1. What does
this mean? When I clicked manage flags on this partition boot was already checked. Is there anything else I should check from here?

What do you think the problem could be?

Thanks again

Edit: So the warning was to let me know that it was unable to read teh contents of this file system. Not sure what to think of that.

Edit2: Do you think I should allow it to check and repair the file system? Thanks.
 
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Hmm, partition is primary, boot flag is set, MBR seems fine, OS should be working, still no boot device detected....

Have you done a chkdsk?

Perhaps just for kicks try swapping sata ports? Doubt that will do anything though. That reminds me, you don't have your drive(s) set up as raid in the bios do you?
 
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I haven't done chckdsk, but I'll give that try. I'll try swapping satas as well. And no, I do not have my drives in raid.

Thanks.

Edit: I ran chkdsk and it said the file system was checked and found no problems. Swapping satas didn't do anything either. This is quite odd.
 
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Geh, I'm running out of ideas. When you installed windows on the drive did you have another drive in the system plugged in? I've heard about windows putting the bootmgr weird places. Though even if it did we should have fixed that by now with bootrec...

If anyone else has ideas feel free to jump in.
 
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Thanks for your help. I'm starting to think I should just re-install windows :(. I don't have any Idea what it could possibly be.
 
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Yeah sorry I wasn't more help. Uh, you could install windows on a new partition and see if it boots that way without having to lose all your data, then edit the newly created bootmgr to point to the other partition instead of that one. Then taking that bootmgr and plopping it in the older windows install.

Very unconventional, but whatever works.

Before you try that, you could try downloading and burning PLOP to a cd (its like 80mb or something so a cd will work if you have any.) then trying to boot from that into the first hdd. Its normally used for getting a system to boot off a USB that doesn't have support for it in the bios.

Think this is the right website: http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux/download.html

Again if anyone passing by can help... do so.
 
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