Hey everyone,
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this thread, and possibly provide some help if you're in position to do so.
Alright so the problem is basically: After a shutdown (presumably after a Windows 7 update) the partition letters on my drives has swapped around. A system reserved windows partition which was hidden, is now visible and has taken over the partition letter C: and replaced the previous partition C: with the letter D:, and swapped the remaining three partitions with letters chronologically following thereafter. It now won't boot properly.
I'm running a install of Windows 7 64-bit. Installed on a SSD drive, without my other drive plugged in. I formatted it, made a clean install and all was well and good. I later installed my secondary HDD with all my data. No issues so far.
Fast forward 7 weeks...
However yesterday I shut it down and all seemed normal. I came back home from work and turned on the pc, went to make dinner and came back down to see it's loaded up the Startup Repair tool, which shows a window saying it's unable to repair the issues automatically.
I thought to myself, what issues ? So I went on about it and found out later when starting command prompt and checking disk volumes and partition names that it's swapped all letters around and shows an additional (previously hidden) system reserved drive.
It used to be in this order: C:\ (Windows (SSD)) D:\ (Data (HDD)) E:\ (Data (HDD)) F:\ (HDD))
It's now in this order: C:\ (System reserved (SSD)) D:\ (Windows (SSD)) E:\ (Data (HDD)) F:\ (Data (HDD)) G:\ (Data (HDD))
Basically it loads up the windows loading screen, and when it's just about done and about to display the login screen, I get nothing but a black screen with the cursor hovering over. After 4-5 minutes it automatically reboots and tries to boot up the startup repair, which ultimately fails.
I've tried to boot up in safe mode, however it (again) shows the loading screens with nescessary drivers etc. and then goes to black screen with cursor hovering over it and... you guessed it, reboots.
Soloutions already tried:
SFC /Scannow - Doesn't seem to recognize any corrupt system files
System Restore Point - It does load a restore point, though the result is the same. Blank screen and restart. I haven't gotten multiple restore points so I can't go further back either.
System Startup Repair - Can't fix the issues automatically
Bootrec.exe - Doesn't help either.
Memory diagnostisation of RAM - Found no errors.
Checked that it's booting in the right order. - It is.
I've experienced this before, last time it could boot up and uptill loading explorer.exe and then crashed over, and over, and over, and over, and over again making it impossible to open up files / folders to check for logs etc.
Last time the soloution was a complete reformat of the SSD and clean install of Windows 7, but that was mainly due to the fact I needed it quickly the day after. However it's only 7 weeks since then and now jumps to the same issue.
I'm desperately looking for advice, and any thoughts on this if possible.
I'm willing to provide all the information I can, however since I cannot boot up Windows 7 I cannot retrieve any detailed log files explaining the reasons for the failed boot / crash.
I'm beggining to think that this might be caused by faulty hardware, and in that case how do I pinpoint which module is faulty.
Best regards,
Jakob
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this thread, and possibly provide some help if you're in position to do so.
Alright so the problem is basically: After a shutdown (presumably after a Windows 7 update) the partition letters on my drives has swapped around. A system reserved windows partition which was hidden, is now visible and has taken over the partition letter C: and replaced the previous partition C: with the letter D:, and swapped the remaining three partitions with letters chronologically following thereafter. It now won't boot properly.
I'm running a install of Windows 7 64-bit. Installed on a SSD drive, without my other drive plugged in. I formatted it, made a clean install and all was well and good. I later installed my secondary HDD with all my data. No issues so far.
Fast forward 7 weeks...
However yesterday I shut it down and all seemed normal. I came back home from work and turned on the pc, went to make dinner and came back down to see it's loaded up the Startup Repair tool, which shows a window saying it's unable to repair the issues automatically.
I thought to myself, what issues ? So I went on about it and found out later when starting command prompt and checking disk volumes and partition names that it's swapped all letters around and shows an additional (previously hidden) system reserved drive.
It used to be in this order: C:\ (Windows (SSD)) D:\ (Data (HDD)) E:\ (Data (HDD)) F:\ (HDD))
It's now in this order: C:\ (System reserved (SSD)) D:\ (Windows (SSD)) E:\ (Data (HDD)) F:\ (Data (HDD)) G:\ (Data (HDD))
Basically it loads up the windows loading screen, and when it's just about done and about to display the login screen, I get nothing but a black screen with the cursor hovering over. After 4-5 minutes it automatically reboots and tries to boot up the startup repair, which ultimately fails.
I've tried to boot up in safe mode, however it (again) shows the loading screens with nescessary drivers etc. and then goes to black screen with cursor hovering over it and... you guessed it, reboots.
Soloutions already tried:
SFC /Scannow - Doesn't seem to recognize any corrupt system files
System Restore Point - It does load a restore point, though the result is the same. Blank screen and restart. I haven't gotten multiple restore points so I can't go further back either.
System Startup Repair - Can't fix the issues automatically
Bootrec.exe - Doesn't help either.
Memory diagnostisation of RAM - Found no errors.
Checked that it's booting in the right order. - It is.
I've experienced this before, last time it could boot up and uptill loading explorer.exe and then crashed over, and over, and over, and over, and over again making it impossible to open up files / folders to check for logs etc.
Last time the soloution was a complete reformat of the SSD and clean install of Windows 7, but that was mainly due to the fact I needed it quickly the day after. However it's only 7 weeks since then and now jumps to the same issue.
I'm desperately looking for advice, and any thoughts on this if possible.
I'm willing to provide all the information I can, however since I cannot boot up Windows 7 I cannot retrieve any detailed log files explaining the reasons for the failed boot / crash.
I'm beggining to think that this might be caused by faulty hardware, and in that case how do I pinpoint which module is faulty.
Best regards,
Jakob
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