- Apr 24, 2016
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Hello,
I am having issues starting up my Windows 7 due to "the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
Some background information:
I was having some issues earlier with bluestacks loading and occasionally I found a way to fix it without it going to bluescreen. With much testing (and bluescreening) it was a roughly 40% chance for it not to bluescreen and to work fine. I believe I may have screwed something up by bluescreening my computer so much... in any case, the final bluescreen occurred and I got the above message and the computer wouldn't start Windows 7.
Present information:
Possible causes/solutions:
If my descriptions are not detailed enough, please let me know and I can attach some pictures I took to supplement the information.
Thank you for taking your time for reading and providing assistance!
I am having issues starting up my Windows 7 due to "the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
Some background information:
I was having some issues earlier with bluestacks loading and occasionally I found a way to fix it without it going to bluescreen. With much testing (and bluescreening) it was a roughly 40% chance for it not to bluescreen and to work fine. I believe I may have screwed something up by bluescreening my computer so much... in any case, the final bluescreen occurred and I got the above message and the computer wouldn't start Windows 7.
Present information:
1. I have scoured the internet to a certain degree trying to find some fixes, but I was not able to find anything pertaining to my issue (usually it was about something else or similar, but not the same; I have tried those steps as well, but I fear I may be worsening the situation)
2. I have followed the instructions on the error screen to put in a windows disk and to try startup recovery. (I have tried to repair the startup, but it has come to my understanding it is trying to repair the E: drive (where the windows disk is) instead of the actual windows boot - is this normal?)
3. I have performed chkdsk on my C (HDD) and D (SSD, where my windows is located) drive. Both drives stated that there were no errors and is fine. I am running 2 harddrives and I read this may have an effect on repairing the boot...
4. On F8 there is no use last known method or safe mode, it just gives me boot options.
5. I have moved the boot priority around so that it boots from disc first (this solved the issue where it kept saying, in the windows 7 repair window, that the disc was not compatible.
6. Windows boot manager is on the D: drive and the boot loader is on the E: drive. (It's not unknown)
7. The scannow command constantly says that a repair is scheduled and I need to restart the computer, but the computer can't even get past the error screen to activate the schedule so it is a loop of asking me to restart.
Possible causes/solutions:
- With respect to point 2 listed above, is there anyway to have the startup recovery repair the D: drive instead of the windows disk? As mentioned in point 3, both drives are fine and there were no detected errors. I'm thinking I may have to run one of those create a new startup (not the masterboot), but am not sure if this would screw up a simple problem.
- Is there something wrong with point 6?
- I've read that I could reinstall windows on my HDD and the files in the HDD would just be named windows.old, but the files would still be there. Would my issue still be here because I'd still have the previous windows error? I'd like to refrain from this action as it may complicate things further.
If my descriptions are not detailed enough, please let me know and I can attach some pictures I took to supplement the information.
Thank you for taking your time for reading and providing assistance!
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