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not able to boot with windows 7 os
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To access the System Recovery Environment in Windows 7, simply boot your PC, just before the system loads the Windows operating system; hit the [F8] Function 8 key on your keyboard which will launch the Advanced Boot Options Menu. There you will see a new option 'Repair Your Computer', select this option and hit 'Enter' on your keyboard.
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Interesting. Someone at another site posted with the same problem when helping a friend fix their Windows XP machine.
I suggest starting with checking that there are no CDs or DVDs in the drives or removable drives (backups) plugged in to the USB ports. If that is not the problem, see if this KB article helps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315261/
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Wow! That is the exact scenario I am currently in. I had to remove an old hard drive which failed that did not even have my windows 7 installed on it but had an old version of XP. So after removing the hard drive I kept getting the NTLDR missing error. Im am currently doing a system recovery with a windows 7 repair disk like you did in hopes it works! Thank you.
-Tony
Don't know if this person has a dual boot PC ... but I do ... I finally, after using the repair function on the Win7 DVD managed to let me get back into windows7 ... but I'm still getting the NTLDR missing or corrupt error when I attempt to boot into XP. Started my own conversation on this issue at: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/bb12787f-5b7f-4956-87f0-37f98b4f52b5/
I had an issue with Windows 7 not booting once I removed an old hard drive that had Windows XP on it. I had thought this would go seamlessly but apparently my 'System' volume was set to the old drive.
Getting rid of this issue was a pain to say the least.
The windows 7 disk was the first attempt to remove the NTLDR error, even tho it doesnt make sense as that is only need for XP.
Anyways, choosing "STartup repair" and similar from the Windows 7 disk did not fix the problem even though it found items to repair each time.
I ended up fixing the issue after doing two things:
-Disabling the 'Quick Boot' option in the BIOS
-Eventually selecting the system restore option
I find it goofy that this worked, especially since the restore would still be using the old HD in my mind. However, maybe the non-quick boot allowed the system to do a deeper check and not fail instantly on the NTLDR error?
Could be... in either case, this fixed the issues.
