windows 7 wont boot

[Medico]

If the MBR was corrupted, when you ran the repair disk it should have automatically fixed it (At least mine did). I did not even have to run the repair. As soon as I booted to the Repair disk (or installation disk for that matter) it found the MBR problem and fixed it without running repair.

The Repair Install may be your only option at this point. (your son must be some PC guru to have been able to do this)

When you finally get back online, look into Imaging. With an Up To Date image you can restore a PC that will not boot in about 10 minutes. I create a new Image monthly (at the most) more often if many changes have taken place. I also keep my data on a separate partition so a OS not booting will not affect the data at all. Check the many discussions in the Security and Backup forum. You can search for Imaging or Image software, etc.

Is there any chance with the overclocking you do, something in the hardware may have given up?

[Just Plain Fred]

F10 didnt show the disks, output looked incomplete.

"1",
What do you mean "didn't show disks", Boot Menu shows all disks present , even if they are not boot-able. ? Did you get into "Boot Menu"? What does "output incomplete" mean? Sorry but I'm confused... Regards Fred

[Xircal]

As satrow mentioned, the error you're seeing is INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE which means the operating system has lost access to the system partition.

To fix it, do the following.

1. Go into the CMOS setup and load CD ROM as first boot device, with HD second.
2. Insert the Windows installation disc and reboot.
3. Hit any key when you see the option to boot to the CD. You'll see the usual message at the bottom that "Setup is loading files..."
4. When you get the next menu, hit R to load the Recovery Console.
5. At the prompt which asks you which installation you want to log on to, type: 1
6. Type your Admin password at the next prompt.
7. At the C:\WINDOWS prompt which appears, type: fixboot C: and hit Enter.
8. Type: exit and hit Enter.
9. Remove the Windows installation disc and reboot.

Should work.

[1amdadmt]

No luck at major geeks, they say do a install saving window->windows.old, user->user.old....,
gave a trick for maybe making the non destructive repair work.

[curiousclive]

You say that the system is identifying the OS disk as 2F2 drive? If you can download a partition manager such as partition magic and create a boot disk from the options in the program (can do this on another computer) then boot from this disk. It should show you all disks that are connected. If the one you know as The OS disk show wrong drive letter maybe it will allow you to change it back to "C". Can't guarantee it will work but worth a look.

[satrow]

No luck at major geeks, they say do a install saving window->windows.old, user->user.old....,
gave a trick for maybe making the non destructive repair work.

Follow up on your thread in the malware forum, TimW posted instructions for FRST.

[1amdadmt]

Ended up copying windows->windows.old, program->program.old....
And re-installing.

Then tried going back to old windows ie;
ren windows -> windows.new.....
ren windows.old -> windows

And re-boot, same non reboot as before.

Switched back to the install, and ran virus and malware check, nothing was found.
So 9yo did something bad.

So went back to install and rebuilt everything only took about 4hrs.
Now have clean machine, I hope without too much effort.
Think I should of upgraded to a ssd since I did all the work anyhwo.

BTW:
The link
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X15-65733.iso

does not point to the version that has SP1.

When I check for updates there were some 150, one of which was for SP1.
Maybe thats why the non-destruct repair did not work.

Wish I had seem Xircal response before re-installing to give a try.
Suppose I still could.

Thanks for all the responses

[Medico]

Win 7 ISO with SP1