I was recently trying to enable the "No GUI boot" option in the Boot tab of the System Configuration simply because I was tired of waiting for that stupid logo to load before getting into my computer. I figured this was easy enough. Well, I went into the Boot tab and I was unable to click any of the options. I soon realized that this was because I had no OS visible in little white sub-window. I thought this was pretty shocking, it's supposed to say "Windows 7(C:\Windows) : Current OS; Default OS" for me since I'm running Win 7 (64 if it matters).
I've looked into the issue quite a bit, but almost everyone with this problem seems to have a much more serious problem of not even being able to boot at all. This same research has led me to think that it's something with my bootloader. I've tried running EasyBCD, but it tells me "There are a total of 0 entries listed in the bootloader". If, from inside EasyBCD, I try to go to Tools->Edit Legacy Entries it tells me:
"Boot.ini is located on the hidden boot partition and cannot be loaded for user editing by EasyBCD. Please either assign a drive letter to the hidden boot partition or use the Windows XP dual-boot auto-configuration feature instead."
I've also tried a second method, which was to boot from my Windows 7 install disc and get to the command prompt and type in (in order): "bootrec /FixMbr", "bootrec /FixBoot", "bootrec /RebuildBcd". The first two commands were successful, and although the last command returned successful, it tells me "Total identified Windows installations: 0".
Like I said before, when I search for information on this I get just tons and tons of posts about people not being able to boot at all and solutions that are pretty hardcore, involving reformats and such. I don't have any negative symptoms like this, my Windows runs fine and everything is great. I just don't understand why I would have these errors, it really makes no sense to me whatsoever, and it is actually pretty alarming. I began this venture with the simple desire to disable my windows boot-up GUI, but stumbled on something that could potentially be more serious. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
I've looked into the issue quite a bit, but almost everyone with this problem seems to have a much more serious problem of not even being able to boot at all. This same research has led me to think that it's something with my bootloader. I've tried running EasyBCD, but it tells me "There are a total of 0 entries listed in the bootloader". If, from inside EasyBCD, I try to go to Tools->Edit Legacy Entries it tells me:
"Boot.ini is located on the hidden boot partition and cannot be loaded for user editing by EasyBCD. Please either assign a drive letter to the hidden boot partition or use the Windows XP dual-boot auto-configuration feature instead."
I've also tried a second method, which was to boot from my Windows 7 install disc and get to the command prompt and type in (in order): "bootrec /FixMbr", "bootrec /FixBoot", "bootrec /RebuildBcd". The first two commands were successful, and although the last command returned successful, it tells me "Total identified Windows installations: 0".
Like I said before, when I search for information on this I get just tons and tons of posts about people not being able to boot at all and solutions that are pretty hardcore, involving reformats and such. I don't have any negative symptoms like this, my Windows runs fine and everything is great. I just don't understand why I would have these errors, it really makes no sense to me whatsoever, and it is actually pretty alarming. I began this venture with the simple desire to disable my windows boot-up GUI, but stumbled on something that could potentially be more serious. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
A solution!!! 
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