Windows won't boot but ubuntu will?

agnes · 13 Nov 2010 at 07:35

I got ubuntu and windows 7 dual booted on a 250g disk, I pulled it from a dead computer to a slim desktop comp that I have as a spare incase the above happens. But it won't boot into windows... As soon as I select it, it starts the logo animation and about 3 second later. It dies and restarts the machine.

If I try to enter safemode with Win 7, it brings up 4 options (5 I think), all referencing 'Windows 7 server/NT/XP'
'Windows 7 server/NT/XP (command)
ect ect

No options to boot into safe mode, only 5 options like the above.

Any ideas?

As much as I love ubuntu, I am still not used to it yet lol.

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yashiro · 13 Nov 2010 at 09:42

IDE controller settings in the bios. Turn AHCI off. Just a guess given the info provided.

agnes · 13 Nov 2010 at 10:14

yashiro said:
IDE controller settings in the bios. Turn AHCI off. Just a guess given the info provided.

Of course!!! Did not think of this

BIOS defaults it's self to AHCI if I remember correctly, will give it a shot now and report back.

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agnes · 13 Nov 2010 at 10:19

Nope, was set to IDE, still no luck

It seems win 7 is trying to load a driver... Not sure which, most likely my sfx driver. As it used to have problems with that, and it is no longer present so it is probably having a heart attack when it looks for the sound card.

Will see what magic I can work.

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Fanatic · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:38

Boot using the Windows DVD and use the repair tools in there?

Macky · 14 Nov 2010 at 01:28

Take soundcard out and try?

Senture · 14 Nov 2010 at 01:39

When booting Windows, press F8 as soon as you select it and chose "Disable automatic restart on system failure". The BSOD error will remain until you restart so you can see what is causing it to fail. If it doesn't point to a specific identity, google the stop code found 2/3 the way down the screen (starts 0x00 before the brackets).

agnes · 14 Nov 2010 at 21:34

Fanatic said:
Boot using the Windows DVD and use the repair tools in there?

Lost my windows disk a while back, but have managed to get it to try and repair, comes up trumps.

Macky said:
Take soundcard out and try?

In built soundcard... Will disable it in BIOS and see how I get one.

Senture said:
When booting Windows, press F8 as soon as you select it and chose "Disable automatic restart on system failure". The BSOD error will remain until you restart so you can see what is causing it to fail. If it doesn't point to a specific identity, google the stop code found 2/3 the way down the screen (starts 0x00 before the brackets).

I will take a pic of the options I get in F8, I know what you are on about and most of the time I can tell what caused the BSOD from the code if even seeing it for a few seconds.

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agnes · 15 Nov 2010 at 12:39

Tried lots of stuff last night, still no success...

Tried sorting out the BCD... Nothing

Would it be worth moving all the sys32/driver files to a different folder one by one, and see how I get on? Or should I just remove all of them? Not delete obviously.

Any mandatory sys32 drivers that need to be there?

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