Tracey, the hard drive is showing in the BIOS -- it is the entry "FUJITSU MHW2060BH-(S1)". This is a 60 GB hard drive made by Fujitsu. It can also be seen in the boot order. Since the drive is detected, it's extremely unlikely that the cable is bad. Also, this is an IDE drive, so there is no need for SATA drivers.
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(34 posts)Sounds like your having fun at least and good on you for getting in there hands and all ,I have to go now got to go and do things with the family but will look back again tonight our time to check on in on you .....big brother lol.....might of had a reply from some really nice person who can help you I wish you luck and remember its only a computer....Im pretty sure with btrmgr problem the data will still be there on the disk so all is not lost its just coming up with a fix.
Regards Stew.
Looking at the boot priority order list in the BIOS, the first entry is USB key. This is not good. You don't want to boot from a USB key (sometimes called a memory stick in the UK) except under unusual circumstances. Let's change the boot order, as OzSpitt started to say.
Put the CD/DVD drive, "TSSTcorpCDW/DVD SN-M242D", in slot 1. Put the hard drive, "FUJITSU MHW2060BH-(S1)", in slot 2. The others should be set to blank, like slot 6. When you have changed this boot order, removed the repair CD and see if it will boot to Windows.
Back, didnt work! Not sure if its because I couldnt change the others to blank like no6?
Just tried the install instead of repair from the disc and it didnt work - the error message that comes up
is as follows:
Windows cannot open the required file D:\Sources\install.wim. The file does not exist. Make sure all files required fo installation are available and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070002
Tracey, I'm in the U.S. When you are looking at the boot priority list, there might be a legend about which keys are used to change the selections. Again, it varies wildly, so you have to look around. You can't do an install from the repair CD. The Vista install comes on a DVD because a CD can't hold it all.
What message do you get now when you try to boot -- still bootmgr is missing? The next thing to try is a command from the Command Prompt:
chkdsk /F c:
This will check the C drive for filesystem problems. Hopefully that is the partition where Vista is installed.
Hiya Scott, Yes still getting the same message and its 1am here now! Just ran the command above and the last line says: Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
The rest of it is saying no problems found.
Thanks and look forward (as I would think you are too) of solving this pc!
Tracey
From chkdsk, "no problems found" is good. The part about failed to log messages is normal in the Recovery Environment because there is no place to write the log file to.
Next, we need to see some of the output from bcdedit. Just run it from the Command Prompt. This will spit out a LOT of information, including some very long CLSID strings. To save you a lot of writing/typing, just provide the data for the following fields:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier
device
description
default
Windows Boot Loader
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device
path
description
osdevice
systemroot
nx
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