Recently I noticed my main hard drive failing and decided to put a fresh installation of Widows 7 onto one of my other drives since, eventually, it was going to go out on me. I put the fresh installation on, moved everything I needed over, and formatted the bad drive. After a few days my computer acted up and crashed on me unexpectedly. Every time I started up the computer would get to the first Windows loading screen and then simply crash. I figured it must have something to do with the bad drive, removed it, and then started to get a message on start-up to 'Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media and press any key".
The hard drive containing my operating system was still connected and hadn't shown, before this, any signs of corruption or failure. I'd even tested it along side my other failing drive with Seagate Tools just to be certain and it passed each time!
I inserted my USB loaded Windows 7 drive (I used a USB loader to basically make it a 'boot drive') and it didn't recognize it as such. I figured that, perhaps, the drive priority was wrong and went and changed it around so that the OS containing drive was first. Still no luck. I decided to remove the drive and attach it to a spare computer and try and install a fresh Windows 7 on it and, after doing so, found that it would STILL not recognize it as a boot device despite it working on the other computer!
After repeated attempts and failure to boot from the USB drive I went ahead and burned a DVD with the installation on it and set the priority to boot from the disc drive. I attempted, repeatedly, to boot from this installation disc with multiple errors and failures that were a result of various missing system files (listed as something like "/windows/system/[filename]"), kernels, or even drivers. Pressing enter yielded the option to try and boot something like "Windows Setup [ECM Enabled]" or something along those lines but, even if it managed to get to another Windows loading screen, would blue-screen and say I was having a hardware or driver issue.
I'm really at my wit's end on this one and I'm looking for ANY ideas on what to do. So far I've tried burning two different installation DVDs with no effect on the main machine other than errors and blue screens. I'm thinking of reinstalling the OS again using the extra computer, but then I'm pretty sure I"ll be back to the same error message. Any ideas? Questions about my system? Please respond and thanks!
The hard drive containing my operating system was still connected and hadn't shown, before this, any signs of corruption or failure. I'd even tested it along side my other failing drive with Seagate Tools just to be certain and it passed each time!
I inserted my USB loaded Windows 7 drive (I used a USB loader to basically make it a 'boot drive') and it didn't recognize it as such. I figured that, perhaps, the drive priority was wrong and went and changed it around so that the OS containing drive was first. Still no luck. I decided to remove the drive and attach it to a spare computer and try and install a fresh Windows 7 on it and, after doing so, found that it would STILL not recognize it as a boot device despite it working on the other computer!
After repeated attempts and failure to boot from the USB drive I went ahead and burned a DVD with the installation on it and set the priority to boot from the disc drive. I attempted, repeatedly, to boot from this installation disc with multiple errors and failures that were a result of various missing system files (listed as something like "/windows/system/[filename]"), kernels, or even drivers. Pressing enter yielded the option to try and boot something like "Windows Setup [ECM Enabled]" or something along those lines but, even if it managed to get to another Windows loading screen, would blue-screen and say I was having a hardware or driver issue.
I'm really at my wit's end on this one and I'm looking for ANY ideas on what to do. So far I've tried burning two different installation DVDs with no effect on the main machine other than errors and blue screens. I'm thinking of reinstalling the OS again using the extra computer, but then I'm pretty sure I"ll be back to the same error message. Any ideas? Questions about my system? Please respond and thanks!
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