First Win 7 system crash

Blackout

Blackout

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Well after a year of running strong I had my first Win 7 system crash...

I was watching a blu-ray last night on my projector with arc soft total media theatre 3... woke up.. went to boot up (system had auto shut down) and now it's giving me:

Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible"

Booted up from Win 7 ultimate cd rom, ran repair.. said it found the system partition allocation table had one error and fixed it. rebooted, still same error.

tried system restore - but it does NOT see any resoore points nor even see my win 7 partition...

any win 7 gurus in here?

All footage seems to be safe as they are all on external hard drives but some current projects and software on the C: drive will be screwed...

- Blackout
 
that would be your system disk failing. I would put it in another system (don't boot from it) and copy everything you can off of it, or try a 3rd party disk repair boot disk and see if you can repair it to the point of being bootable again.
 
Rewrite your MBR? I figure "repair" does that too.

What did google tell ya?

Sounds like it is having problems booting. What about your boot order? Is it trying to boot off of the BluRay or something?
 
Ugh.... so I need a new C: drive? Can anyone recommend a repair program that will run from cd-rom that I can download and burn with my laptop.. that isn't laced with spyware or bullcrap... I have been searching and can't quite tell the wheat from the chaff and I'm pretty tech savvy. USUALLY I would have a full backup on a dul layer blu-ray but I was lazy in my backup making.....
 
What I would do is pickup a new SATA(unless its IDE) hard drive of equal or greater size.

Install new hard drive in system.

Find/make/buy a bootable Ghost CDROM.

Boot to CD, run Ghost ("ghost.exe /ir" this will copy the raw image of the drive).

Copy old drive to new. Be sure you have the proper source and destination, as you don't want to write over your good drive with zeros!

If you buy a larger NEW hard drive, it will be easy to decipher which one is the old and which one is the new.
 
Not wanting to start a Macs vs PC thing here but one thing I've noticed is that although Windows has gotten much more stable, a Mac is much easier to do data recovery on or restore when something bad happens.

Anyway I agree, just pop your drive in an external enclosure or in another system and copy the files off. If it were a Mac you could target boot and skip that step but it's really no big deal.

But again, no Mac vs PC thing. I have a Win 7 tower to go with my MBP, I know all the arguments and agree with some of them lol.
 
greeches said:
What I would do is pickup a new SATA(unless its IDE) hard drive of equal or greater size.

Install new hard drive in system.

Find/make/buy a bootable Ghost CDROM.

Boot to CD, run Ghost ("ghost.exe /ir" this will copy the raw image of the drive).

Copy old drive to new. Be sure you have the proper source and destination, as you don't want to write over your good drive with zeros!

If you buy a larger NEW hard drive, it will be easy to decipher which one is the old and which one is the new.
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I highly advise against doing this, you would be ghosting a drive with a corrupted partition table and bad sectors. That is assuming you could even get ghost to recognize the disk.

As for data recovery boot disks, I used a great one back in the day that was commandline and based off of a linux distro. I can't remember what it was called but I'm looking now
 
Ben_B said:
Not wanting to start a Macs vs PC thing here but one thing I've noticed is that although Windows has gotten much more stable, a Mac is much easier to do data recovery on or restore when something bad happens.
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Actually, if you have a system of regular backups, there's little difference. And, yes, I have both, because I teach high school broadcast/film/video production and they require Macs. :)
 
Does any of this have anything to do with a Panasonic GH1 or GH2? Perhaps this thread belongs in a different forum.
 
Fohdeesha said:
I highly advise against doing this, you would be ghosting a drive with a corrupted partition table and bad sectors. That is assuming you could even get ghost to recognize the disk.

As for data recovery boot disks, I used a great one back in the day that was commandline and based off of a linux distro. I can't remember what it was called but I'm looking now
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This is what I was going to ask. I have heard about ghost but what do i do after a copy the disk? isn't it just going to copy the corrupt disk? how do I get windows 7 working again while still having all my files and documents and programs - which are there now... I can go into the c: drive and see things.. just not the windows partition.. it's corrupted.. it's weird....
 
CColton said:
Does any of this have anything to do with a Panasonic GH1 or GH2? Perhaps this thread belongs in a different forum.
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I suppose you could be right. It is my GH1 footage and editing programs I am needing to get to so I posted here because there is so much more traffic than the os board. I don't peruse many other section but here and audio. I really need to get this fixed YESTERDAY.
 
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editguy said:
Actually, if you have a system of regular backups, there's little difference. And, yes, I have both, because I teach high school broadcast/film/video production and they require Macs. :)
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Does Windows support an archive and install? I don't think it does...on a mac you can reinstall the OS without effecting anything else like programs, etc, and without having to wipe.

Anyway, Blackout, before you try anything, connect the drive to another machine or put another bootable drive in the machine and copy off critical project data, etc. I think you said there was some.
 
yeah you can reinstall windows over itself and it'll keep the installed programs intact, it's called "refreshing" windows.

However, it sounds like a portion of the drive might be bad and he can't see the windows partition at all. It won't help if you can't find the original installation.
 
Yes something is wacky in the the file table... so I can see some directories but it doesn't see an active windows partition.. I had 'system restore' points but it can't see them. Yet, windows repair recognizes it and tries to repair it, says that it IS repaired (1 error - file table corrupt - fixed) but then it doesn't boot.... and it keeps trying to repair the same error.. I was wondering if there are any other repair programs that will run from a bootable cd.
 
Download Hirens boot disc, has many repair and recovery tools that can be used and it's bootable from CD or usb flash drive.

Google it.
 
Everyone has their own 2c on what to do, but I believe this has been suggested before. This advice is coming from someone who has personally experienced similar issues and works at MSFT. If you value your data, assume the worst (that your drive is failing, which is likely) and do the following:

1) Physically disconnect your existing HDD. (this ensures you won't accidentally delete/format/etc the drive when reinstalling on the new HDD and will keep it spun down until you can copy your data off)
2) Install a new HDD (from Newegg/Amazon/etc etc) and set it up as the primary boot device
3) Install Windows on the new drive
4) Reconnect your old HDD
5) Copy the DATA (pictures/videos/tax documents/etc etc) from your old HDD to your new one.

After that is done you can worry about your installed programs and other stuff. Installed programs can be replaced - data can't. If you don't know how to do this I suggest finding someone who can quickly.
 
Ben_B said:
Does Windows support an archive and install? I don't think it does...on a mac you can reinstall the OS without effecting anything else like programs, etc, and without having to wipe.

Anyway, Blackout, before you try anything, connect the drive to another machine or put another bootable drive in the machine and copy off critical project data, etc. I think you said there was some.
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Windows does support repairing an existing installation, yes. It also supports backups. And file system snapshots and restore points. However, repairing/reinstalling to a HDD that is mysteriously and consistently having low-level problems? It's like trying to fix a flat tire with duct tape. What he needs is a new tire (HDD). The value of the data on the HDD is almost always worth far more than a new HDD so it's not worth risking it (not by a long shot).
 
well... I got the disk running on another machine and also with the hirens boot disc.... but my documents appear wiped... :badputer:

I have most stuff backed up on external drives but I did loose some work, receipts, and junk I had on the C drive.. perhaps one small script....

Starting the re-installing process now. Cry. Many long time ahead. Seagate evil. What should I try and run to see if I can recover any files? I already made a full 140gig backup of my broken windows disc that wont boot and the document directory is empty...
 
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Search for file( content)s or data by using a recovery program

Search for file( content)s or data by using a recovery program

Blackout said:
well... I got the disk running on another machine and also with the hirens boot disc.... but my documents appear wiped... :badputer:

I have most stuff backed up on external drives but I did loose some work, receipts, and junk I had on the C drive.. perhaps one small script....

Starting the re-installing process now. Cry. Many long time ahead. Seagate evil. What should I try and run to see if I can recover any files? I already made a full 140gig backup of my broken windows disc that wont boot and the document directory is empty...
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You can use a tool like Recuva to see if any of the "free" space still contains some data or files.

If a branch falls of a tree, the tree loses the reference to the branch, but the leaves are still on it.
 
You may consider scanning your drive (contents) manually after a crash

You may consider scanning your drive (contents) manually after a crash

Fool4UAnyway said:
You can use a tool like Recuva to see if any of the "free" space still contains some data or files.

If a branch falls of a tree, the tree loses the reference to the branch, but the leaves are still on it.
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You may scan your drive "manually" using a disk editor / viewer, so you may find files or sectors that contain texts you know to be in the script etc.

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

If you miss the branch on the tree, you may look for leaves on the ground.
 
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