I have managed to somehow screw up the boot.ini or what used to be called the boot file. When I boot it says: Reboot and select proper boot device. The bios won't let me move the boot drive up to the top of the boot settings. I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Motherboard. The Bios has QFlash and can be updated. I don't think I have upgraded it because there was a warning not to do it if the computer worked properly. But now I have the boot problem where it picks the wrong drive to boot to. Please help. Thanks much.
I can't boot up my Windows 7 Pro Computer.
- Thread starter lorensr
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how many drives do you have? How did you screw up the boot.ini? screwing up the boot.ini has nothing to do with the boot drive(changing the boot drive won't fix a screwed up boot.ini). The boot.ini tells the computer where the windows installation is(to boot to). It shows drive and partition. You can have several lines in the boot.ini to allow multiple windows installs, or options.
I have two SATA Hard Drives and an ASUS CD Drive also a newly installed SSD. I don't know if I screwed up the Boot.ini. It has been a while since I put together a PC purchasing parts at Frys so I need help if you can? Before I installed the SSD, I booted to one of the SATA Drives and I want to get back to booting to the SATA and get rid of the "Reboot and select proper boot device" message. Thanks much. Srloren
Ok, the drive that has Windows on it (the WD) may not necessarily be the boot drive. When Windows is installed, the first thing it does is create a hidden(100 MB partition) on the boot drive. Then later the boot.ini is placed here telling the PC where(what drive and partition) the windows folder is(wherever you selected it to go during the install).
Knowing that, all you have to do is locate which drive this partition is on. I'd set the other HDD as the boot drive and see if it boots..
look at this for cloning:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2839729/clone-drive.html
Also when cloning to the SSD, you want both this hidden partition and the windows partition to go to the SSD - so you don't want to just clone the windows partition - you want to clone the entire drive.
Knowing that, all you have to do is locate which drive this partition is on. I'd set the other HDD as the boot drive and see if it boots..
look at this for cloning:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2839729/clone-drive.html
Also when cloning to the SSD, you want both this hidden partition and the windows partition to go to the SSD - so you don't want to just clone the windows partition - you want to clone the entire drive.
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