Computer not booting as normal Help needed badly!

[David444]

Hello I'm afraid I might of screwed up. I used a bootabble usb with windows 7 on it hoping to dual boot it with 8. I went to bios, and select the usb as the priority. In the installation it said I couldn't use the partition, so I shut down the computer, and reanabled the uefi in bios. However, It won't start up. All I get is "no boot said has been found, or disk has failed." In bios, I selected "restore default settings". No luck. Now in the bios startup options, I no longer have windows boot manager under uefi. Here are the options I have:
AtAPI CD drive
USB HD
USB floppy
Legacy boot:
ATAPI CD
Hard drive SAT0
and USb floppy
I need so much help. I'm really very scared that everything on the computer might be gone. What can I do?

 

[kapitalistas]

may help reinsert BIOS battery with pause of couple of minutes.

 

[David444]

I'm running a hard disk check with the f2 key.
could it work?

 

[RaklopGaming]

Unplug your USB device, reset your CMOS and unplug every SATA/IDE device except your primary HDD(the one with Win 8). If this does not help, unplug your HDD, set your USB device as primary and try to boot. If it does not boot, your BIOS might be failing. Good luck, and yeah, inform us about the results 😉

 

[David444]

Unplug your USB device, reset your CMOS and unplug every SATA/IDE device except your primary HDD(the one with Win 8). If this does not help, unplug your HDD, set your USB device as primary and try to boot. If it does not boot, your BIOS might be failing. Good luck, and yeah, inform us about the results 😉

Thank you! Although, my usb has the windows 7 install files on it. I'm just trying to get back into windows 8.1, to my user account.

 

[David444]

Hang on I re inserted the windows 7 usb. at setup I clicked repair computer. And It had windows 8.1 avalible. Now here's the screen I have:
Windows failed to start. A recent HArdware or software change may be the cause.

File: Windows/system32/winload.exe

0cxe000000e
the selected entry could not be loaded because the app is mislocated or corrupt.

This didn't solve any problems, but whatever it means, I'm sure it is somehow helpful. What now?

 

[RaklopGaming]

Try using Windows 8.1 bootable USB device, it wont work with Windows 7 USB!
Windows 8.1 ISO image - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=271128
Video tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLHAd4nIYh8&feature=youtu.be

If it does not work, I am afraid you will have to reinstall Windows.
Note:
Before reinstalling, boot to Hirens Boot CD - http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
and backup everything important, so you can retrieve it if anything goes wrong.

 

[RaklopGaming]

Any feedback? BTW, good luck ;-)

 

[David444]

Any feedback? BTW, good luck ;-)

Thank you. I used a windows 8 usb and did repair computer. System repair couldn;t repair it. I've tried things like bootrec/fixmmbr and all. After I type in bootrec/rebuildbcd, It shows my OSC drive. It asks if I want to ad it to boot options. When I type Y for yes, it says "the required system device cannot be found"?

 

[RaklopGaming]

This seems to be the problem with booting form USB stick. Try using other ports, and, hopefully, one of them will work. 😉

 

[RaklopGaming]

I, probably, wont be active today, but dont close this thread. Today I have really busy day.

 

[David444]

I, probably, wont be active today, but dont close this thread. Today I have really busy day.

Thanks for answering again.
LAst night in command prompt I used this command: C:\> CHKDSK/R

It took a long time overnight to run disk check, but this morning, it said "Windows has made corrections to the system file. No further action is required. I assume this is a good thing. Where do I go from here?

 

[RaklopGaming]

I guess you should try to boot normally to Windows.

 

[RaklopGaming]

If it took a long time, check you HDD for bad sectors(I use Hard Drive Sentinel - http://www.hdsentinel.com/)

 

[RaklopGaming]

Any feedback? BTW, Good luck!

 

[Rasklop]

It's me again, just on another account(forgot both Tom's Hardware and Gmail password(I'm such a n00b)).

 

[Rasklop]

Are you alive? xD

 

[Rasklop]

Yo! Are you still here?

 

[David444]

Yo! Are you still here?

Hello I'm really sorr I haven't responded. Right now I'm using my laptop. I have decided to leave my desktop alone for now. I have backed up what I needed. We're going to have it looked at by someone we know. But for now I haven't touched it really.

 

[Rasklop]

Oh, OK. Thought you were dead LOL.

 

[majmun]

Yo, its me again. On third, at least I think so, profile.