- Nov 22, 2014
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I recently rebuilt my machine and installed Win 7 on a new SSD.
Everything was fine for about a week, but then the machine started crashing after about 15min from starting up. I would get a either a "disk read error" or "Bootmgr missing " error, so I ran startup repair off the Win disk and could boot again, but still would crash after 15 min or so.
Next I ran chkdsk, which found/fixed a few filesystem errors, allowing me to boot into windows. Of course, it still crashed after 10 -15 minutes.
Now though when I try to boot, I see:
Y∞Y∞
And nothing else onscreen. Is this a boot sector virus? If so how do I remove it?
I have Avast antivirus on the machine, and don't recall visiting any shady websites. The last program I installed before the crashes was (if I recall correctly) Adobe reader.
Any help would be appreciated.
My system:
Win 7 64 bit
Samsung 250gb evo SSD
Asus Sabertooth Mk2
i5-4690k
2x Nvidia GTX 460 1GB
8gb gskill ram
4 750Gb HDD's
Everything was fine for about a week, but then the machine started crashing after about 15min from starting up. I would get a either a "disk read error" or "Bootmgr missing " error, so I ran startup repair off the Win disk and could boot again, but still would crash after 15 min or so.
Next I ran chkdsk, which found/fixed a few filesystem errors, allowing me to boot into windows. Of course, it still crashed after 10 -15 minutes.
Now though when I try to boot, I see:
Y∞Y∞
And nothing else onscreen. Is this a boot sector virus? If so how do I remove it?
I have Avast antivirus on the machine, and don't recall visiting any shady websites. The last program I installed before the crashes was (if I recall correctly) Adobe reader.
Any help would be appreciated.
My system:
Win 7 64 bit
Samsung 250gb evo SSD
Asus Sabertooth Mk2
i5-4690k
2x Nvidia GTX 460 1GB
8gb gskill ram
4 750Gb HDD's
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