Grub error 17

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 15:10

hi guys and girls!

got a problem booting up my pc, not sure where it started as my GF said last night the pc was playing up but i was next door haveing beers so told her to just leave it off and ill look at it later. i came to fire it up and it didnt it gave me a choice of wich boot configuration to use default last setup haveing 1 sucseful boot in the past and a few more saying a range of sucsefull boots. i just pressed F1 to continue the normal prosses as didnt know what that all meant and it restarted and loaded the spash screen for my motherboard (giggabyte Q6), which i had preveusly disabled, so i knew sumething was up straight away. then went to the "verryfiying DMI pool data" page

then grub 1.5 loading

and an Error 17....

i am stuck from here on, i did a bit of searching but everything i found talked about ubuntu or people running dual OS's, which im not just running windows 7 x64 and a few other HDD's for data storage.

so i have removed all HDD but my C:\ but tha same error occurs

can any one shed some light on my problem? i've tried to give as much information as i can sorry if it's long winded.

regards

chris.

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 15:57

ok so the bios is trying to do one thing and grub is saying otherwise and so the error occurs?? so it's just a case of like you said trying to recall the settings on the bios to what they were befor it reset. i wasnt aware that i had set any "special" setings in the bios but ill have a play.

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 18:44

any one else had this problem? and why it occured as the BIOS would'nt just mess up like this would it?? and the only thing i changed recently setting wise was the power options in windows from being always on full blast etc, back to the economy setting. (sleep after 5 mins etc..)

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 19:30

ok chears dude. it's legit coppy of windows 7, just tried the BIOS plan but not a chance went to the extreme of shorting the jumper and resetting the BIOS, cos as far as im am aware i had no special setting set in the BIOS and so a reset would go back to default incase i've changed sumething while trying to fix it.

ill try booting from win cd and see where that gets me.

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:16

i've booted from my cd and done a repair and it found one fault.

no system partition was found, and so it rapaired the partition table,

but still the error occurs, now when i had the repair utility open i managed to find an eplorer type window when it askes to find drivers, and my pc even tho had one HDD in it has two showing one/ local disk C:\ and one called boot?? no idea where this has come from.

any more ideas guys?

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:25

i tried a system restor but coulsnt find a restor point, not sure if i ever made one (my fault learn from this). ill try the command promt way now as i just used the automated choices offered. thanks for all the pointers and helpers guys

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:33

chears dude, just loaded the boot disk again so ill try all other mothods first then head down that route. had ubuntu on befor i went over to windows 7 just to have a "play" but went straight to 7 then

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:44

it didnt like the comands you mentioned but wanted to use BOOTSEC.exe i gogoled it and found a "guide" so followed the comants and said it had done summot to the boot record. but just reset and it aint worked but not sure i did it right so going again with it all

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:03

right followed this guide http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

and it says after useing the /RebuildBcd

Total identification Windows instalations:1
[1] C:\Windows
Add intalation file to boot list Yes<y>/No<n>/all<a>

ive done both yes and all and both time it stated : ellement not found.

im startgin to get frustrated withe this pc now it ahs been a night mare sinse day 1!!

regards

chris

sunderz · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:19

and i can do that if i install ubunto alongside and then get the data off... i dont know what ill lose on the disk it was my windows disk only and so then everything is else where but i might have some file "dumped" in my docs, email aint a problem got that backed up. it's a Gskill sollid stat Hdd and dont want another Hdd go down, had more than ususal go down on this new ish build. could that hightlight a problem with the build?

regards

chris

sunderz · 25 Jun 2010 at 22:00

right well i found an old HDD to slap windows on and then back evrything up then start again but this drive has stuff on too is there any quick way of copy stuff on comand promt without getting invalid path or cannot find file errors some files it will copy with the copy comand but xcopy no luck at all! im doinf it just like the guids o've found say and just nowt.

regards

chris