Sudden and strange Windows 7 64 startup problem

yannis76 · 9 Oct 2011 at 20:24

Hi,

I am experiencing a strange startup problem. Whenever I try to start my PC, I get a message of "No boot device found...Please isert a boot device". The strange thing is that if I have the windows dvd inside the pc the problem doesn't aqppear!! I tried repairing the bcd with bootfix and bootrec and also with BCDedit but nothing changed. any other ideas?

Uhtred · 9 Oct 2011 at 20:32

are you sure it's booting to the correct hard drive in the bios?

yannis76 · 9 Oct 2011 at 22:55

yes, otherwise it woulndt boot when the cd is in

Django x2 · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:23

Before we go any further, how many drives are in the machine?

ultrakipper · 10 Oct 2011 at 11:18

Uhtred said:
are you sure it's booting to the correct hard drive in the bios?

Boot again without the cd in then check the boot settings in your bios.

yannis76 · 11 Oct 2011 at 21:32

Lucero said:
Before we go any further, how many drives are in the machine?

hi there are 3 hd and 1 dvdrom

Django x2 · 11 Oct 2011 at 22:04

Unplug the two non OS HDDs and boot from the CD and choose to repair the installation. once it's stable again, plug the other HDDs in. I had this and Windows 7 kept pushing a system partition to one of the other drives and just randomly one day it would stop booting with the same error you have

yannis76 · 13 Oct 2011 at 06:26

Lucero said:
Unplug the two non OS HDDs and boot from the CD and choose to repair the installation. once it's stable again, plug the other HDDs in. I had this and Windows 7 kept pushing a system partition to one of the other drives and just randomly one day it would stop booting with the same error you have

I will try that today