Hi all,
Hoping somebody can help me and apologies for the length of the post.
I am having a problem booting windows 7 pro on my laptop. This issue happened when I was trying to fix a friends laptop and used my laptop to check his disk and his recovery USB stick. Both booted successfully on my laptop but when I then tried to boot from my disk I got the message that there was no boot disk - insert the correct boot disk and try again.
Now I have connections to connect my drive externally to my desktop system. The disk looks OK and I can only assume that the MBR is bad. Clearly the system boots from my friends disk so that rule out disk hardware issues. Next step was to try and run a repair from my Windows 7 install disk. This boots from the CD until it is drawing the Windows logo and then just hangs. Now I have tried the install from the WIndows CD on my desktop system and it boots into Windows fine. So rule out the CD.
Does anyone know how I can check the MBR on my disk and is there any way I can fix it from my desktop system? Is there S/W available that would let me to check the laptop system disk and/or write a new MBR without damaging anything on the disk?
I've tried many searches for solutions without much success. Either the solution did not apply or the instructions were incomplete or I am just too stupid to understand them.
Hoping somebody out there can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks,
George
Hoping somebody can help me and apologies for the length of the post.
I am having a problem booting windows 7 pro on my laptop. This issue happened when I was trying to fix a friends laptop and used my laptop to check his disk and his recovery USB stick. Both booted successfully on my laptop but when I then tried to boot from my disk I got the message that there was no boot disk - insert the correct boot disk and try again.
Now I have connections to connect my drive externally to my desktop system. The disk looks OK and I can only assume that the MBR is bad. Clearly the system boots from my friends disk so that rule out disk hardware issues. Next step was to try and run a repair from my Windows 7 install disk. This boots from the CD until it is drawing the Windows logo and then just hangs. Now I have tried the install from the WIndows CD on my desktop system and it boots into Windows fine. So rule out the CD.
Does anyone know how I can check the MBR on my disk and is there any way I can fix it from my desktop system? Is there S/W available that would let me to check the laptop system disk and/or write a new MBR without damaging anything on the disk?
I've tried many searches for solutions without much success. Either the solution did not apply or the instructions were incomplete or I am just too stupid to understand them.
Hoping somebody out there can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks,
George
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