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Tried all that. It all passes except /scanos which returns 0. Everything seems to be in place, so I have no idea what is wrong.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. The drive letters were changed and at next boot they were changed again. I can't get in to safe mode. The drive boots with the BSOD with the bad config info message. After a short delay it boots again to the screen with about nine options. Including...

Thanks. That is exactly what I see. I will give that a go. Hopefully, my blundering around in the dark hasn't done any further damage.

Update. Still not making any progress. None of the tools e.g. bootrec , bcdedit etc can find the OS. I can access all my data on another computer but not my Thunderbird email.

Hi, Not at home. BSOD message is "bad config data" or words to that effect. Will check later and post image. Sata settings I don't know about but will check. Could booting from a different drive change bios settings? I wouldn't have thought so. Anyway my drive is SSD other is spinning metal.

This laptop was running perfectly well until I booted my friend's drive. It is using legacy boot. I found a Microsoft support thread on how to recreate BCD I will try that this evening. The os is there but boot sector/files, don't which yet got messed up somehow when the other os was running.

It just loops back to the same screen. However, I have made some progress. The active flag had gone off the system partition. I have reset it and am now back to the BSOD. Auto repair is unsuccessful. I have ran BOOTREC /FINDOS, it doesn't find my installation. I don't know what it's looking...

It doesn't give any error messages. View: https://imgur.com/a/mseZ0i1 It ends up on the boot menu screen and goes no further. I am looking for a tool to allow me to read the boot record, assuming that is that the boot record is the start of my problem.

I have disabled network boot it made no difference, it still doesn't boot.

I'm not using PXE that's what appears on the boot screen. I was booting normally from the internal drive. I had booted my friends drive from USB before and it got all the way to the login screen. When I shut it down and removed the usb connection my OS booted without a problem. The next time...

I booted a friends HDD via usb after her laptop died so she recover files. It did something to HHD in my laptop now windows won't boot. My drive is fully functional but the bios can't find my OS. The PXE exits with E61. There is nothing wrong with the hardware all diagnostics pass. Does...