BSOD on boot, Win7 Fails to start

Hi Everyone, I have a similar problem as original poster. BSOD on win7 boot and repeated display of Windows error repair screen.

I am at exact below spot where Sach2 said of 5 options.
However no matter how many time I choose startup repair it does not succeed.

Problem EventName: StartupRepairOffline
Problem signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem signature 03: unknown
Problem signature 04: 21200860
Problem signature 05: AutoFailover
Problem signature 06: 33
Problem signature 07: BadDriver
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

I am able to get to dos prompt (and did chkdsk C: and chkdsk E

I also tried recovery to early restore point (it says restored) but I still get above problem.
Lenovo laptop did NOT come with CD (pre-installed win7).
I guess I can go neosmart and download recovery disk (is that different that what my recovery software does?)

Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Robert

 

Hi Robert,

Some more history might help us - anything new installed in the week or so leading up to this problem, hardware or software?

Anything odd happening during the last working session?

What exactly is the BSOD screen saying - full details or screenshot from a cellphone should suffice?

Do you have access to a desktop computer with SATA?

 

Satrow,
Thank you for looking into this.
1) Previously computer had virus problem with google links going to random search sites. I used Norton Power Eraser to fix that.
2) Then last Friday windows update forced download/restart (I had done many restarts before that).
3) After that Windows Error recovery loop happened.

4) some details of the error.
BSOD with below details.
Technical Information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x80786B58, 0xc000000D, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

5) I have tried system recovery to known restore point (restore works, still BSOD).

6) I do have Paragon rescue kit so I can see all the hard drive partitions.

Let me know if I can generate/upload any boot log files etc.

Thank you,
Robert

 

Some more details...
Since I get get top command prompt I checked what drives it shows (This is Lenovo G555 laptop).

Command prompt opens window in X: drive.
X:\Windows\System32>
Tried couple of things from your previous thread...

bootrec /scanos reports:
Total identified Windows installations: 0

bootrec /RebuildBcd
Successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0. The operation completed successfully



C: Nothing (it has one log file which was created by Paragon boot recovery attempt).
D: two folders drivers,
E: This seem to be my Windows drive because it has Users etc.

There is a directory 778ba33042faf7....
I see some comboFix files (I had tried to use that tool to fix virus problem).
F: My DVD/CD drive

 

hmm! I probably made things worse..
I saw below in another thread and tried it.
From the command prompt:
Type in: Diskpart
Type in: Select Disk 0
Type in: List partition
Look for the number of the D: partition it will have a large number of GB
Type in: Select partition 2 {substitute the correct # for the partition in place of 2}
Type in: active
Type in: exit
Type in: exit


I did se partition 2 which had 100GB so I switched to that using above steps.
I let Windows Repair step correct the problem and it said it corrected the problem.

Now I get below error on startup.
Windows Boot Manager
1. Insert your windows installation disk and restart your computer.. to repair your computer.

* I don't have the disc.

Files \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: An error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

Robert

 

Hi,

I'm not sure what the cause of the original problem is because you have "Bad Driver" listed as the root of the problem.

Let's undo what you have done. At the command prompt type:
diskpart (to start diskpart and get the diskpart> prompt)
list volume (Is one of the volume named System Reserved or approximately 100mb in size? If so tell me which drive letter it is C: or D: )
exit ( to exit diskpart)

At the command prompt type chkdsk e: /r
Let that run and then try to boot. See if you get the same BCD error.

 

Sach2,
I have a happy ending

Before I read below I had seen your instructions on other thread which I tried (listed below).
That got it to boot from different partition but I must have selected wrong partition. Unfortunately that left me with Windows Boot error I listed below.
Since I had downloaded Paragon rescue kit I used that to play around with partition order and with Windows Recovery one of the attempt worked.
Unfortunately I don't remember all the exact steps but my laptop is up and I am able to login and see all my files etc.

If you have suggestion on creating recovery disk let me know becasue I don't want to repeat above experience again

Thank you and satrow for your help.

Robert

 

I'm glad you got things working! I wish I knew exactly what fixed it because there is someone else with the same 7B error in another thread.

The recovery disc is basically the same as the repair options you have been using but it is still worth having in case you can't get to the Repair your Computer options from F8.

Links for download have been disappearing from the web because of some copyright issues I suppose. Since you have your system booting to Windows you should be able to create one.

Try going to Start and then typing Create in the search box. "Create a Repair Disc" should come up in the search results. Click it and it should open a wizard for burning a repair disc. If you ever can't get to the repair options you should be able to boot from the disc to get to the list of 5 choices you have been using.

 

Here are some details that might help others...
Somehow boot record was pointing to wrong partition for OS.

What's on my system...

Volume 0 F CD/DVD drive
Volume 1 E NTFS partition 200 MB
Volume 2 C NTFS partition 105 GB System disk
Volume 3 D NTFS partition 28 GB

Paragon software rescue kit (it's free if you go through facebook) helped me re-arrange partitions. It also has discover installed os option which showed me there were 2 Win 7 instances. I tried to boot from one of the win 7 instance using Paragon rescue kit and that eventually allowed Win 7 error recovery to repair the problem.

Hope that helps...
Thanks,
Robert

 

Thanks!

I think the drive letters get changed/assigned differently when running from the recovery environment. In your post #5 you had drive E: as containing your Windows files. The assignments you just posted were from within Windows?

I'm going to have to take a look at that Paragon CD. I downloaded it but haven't burnt it yet. It sounds like it has some useful tools.

 

Hi,
latest report was from running windows system (I think I did c:\windows\system32\diskpart
select disk 0
list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 E NTFS Partition 200 MB Healthy
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 105 GB Healthy System
Volume 3 D LENOVO NTFS Partition 28 GB Healthy

IN post 5 (during recovery mode)
C: Nothing (it has one log file which was created by Paragon boot recovery attempt).
D: two folders drivers,
E: This seem to be my Windows drive because it has Users etc.

There is a directory 778ba33042faf7....
I see some comboFix files (I had tried to use that tool to fix virus problem).
F: My DVD/CD drive
----------------------------------------------------
Comparison of old and new drives:

What remained same:
F: DVD drive
D: it had two folders drivers and lenovo (same now)

What changed:
E: old one had lots of files (users folder etc. see above), now only one log file bcereport.
C: old one had only one log file bcereport and now Windows C drive (users folder etc.)...

So I believe C, E drive were mixed up when I had problems.