 www.centos.org Forum Index CentOS Social  [RESOLVED] dual boot machine, windows broke
|
 Bottom  Previous Topic  Next Topic |
|
|
|
|
|---|
Topic options
Threaded
Newest First| Poster | Thread | Rated: 1 Votes |
|---|
|
[RESOLVED] dual boot machine, windows broke | #1 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular Board Member
 
Joined: 2006/2/5
From
Posts: 191
|
Hi
I maybe asking this question in the wrong enviornment. But here goes. computer is a dual boot ibm clone with 2 hard drives, c: on the first and f: and g: on the second. affected hard drive is a Seagate Ultra Barracude 80gib. Short version: Windows wouldn't boot, several checks later it still wont. But CentOS 5.7 w/ latest updates Does. I have mounted the window partion (hda1) and have access to the files. Long version: After returned from a month long trip and starting up the computer. After much time, and on a black screen, it said <windows root> \system32\ntoskrnl.exe not found. So following several posts in forums I booted from the Windows SetUp Disk and using Recover mode I found the drive number (letters) were all wrong. I disconnected the second drive and ran SetUp again. In recovery mode I ran chkdsk /r /p and got the following. I down loaded Seagate's Dos Tools and checked the drive. The short test ended with the sugestion that I run the long test, it showed multiple errors and I selected repair them. Now it will boot up to a bar across the screen with only the first section solid and eventially the message. Now if I boot using the SetUp CD I get this message when trying to do a directory listing. So thats were I find myself. The Questions: Is it possible to repair the window installation thru linux ?? Is the hard drive toast?? What are my options??? Thanks for looking Jim |
||
Posted on: 2011/12/30 4:42
  |
 |
||
hoodcanaljim
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #2 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular Board Member
Joined: 2011/12/12
From
Posts: 77
|
If I were you, I'd just rescue any and all documents from the broken disk and replace it.
Sounds like there's broken sectors on the disk. 'Fixing them' usually means that there's a work-around set into place on the disk's surface, but that's a duct-tape fix. Usually, these damages just expand after a while. Backup what you can and replace the hardware. |
||
Posted on: 2011/12/30 10:41
|
|
||
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #3 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular Board Member
Joined: 2006/2/5
From
Posts: 191
|
DaemonProgrammr
I copied the missing file isapnp.sys to the system32\drivers directory and now it will continue the boot sequence to the point were it displays the windows splash screen, then its the BSOD. The only message is to try running Rescue Mode and chkdsk /F There doesn't seem to be a option /F for chkdsk so that didn't help. STOP: 0x0000007B is displayed. I have a external hard drive I can copy all the accessable date from the windows directory to. And will start that going and then drive into town and buy a new hard drive. Could I use a hard disk utility and clone the bad disk to the new drive then try to repairing the windows system files.??? Should I run tar to copy the files or just copy them?? Thanks Jim added at 8:51 I ran the following most notable bootstat.dat looks to have i/o errors I may try replacing that file. Jim |
||
Posted on: 2011/12/30 16:15
|
|
||
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #4 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Moderator
Joined: 2009/9/24
From Brighton, UK
Posts: 6312
|
Quote:
Wildly off-topic and I can see this thread heading for Social anytime now but... stop 7B is "inaccessible boot device" - you might want to check that your BIOS hasn't been reset or otherwise changed to use AHCI mode instead of legacy or vice versa. If you install in AHCI mode then turn it off in the BIOS it will lead to a stop 7B (or if you turn it on after installing without). |
||
|
_________________
Linux/VoIP Systems Administrator |
|||
Posted on: 2011/12/30 16:42
|
|
||
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #5 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular Board Member
Joined: 2006/2/5
From
Posts: 191
|
TrevorH
Thanks for the response. I believe the problem lies in the boot sectors of windows on the hard drive. Bios is working well with the hard drive when booted into centos 5.7 I am now copying all the data that can be read to the external hard drive. I am afraid there is nothing that can be done except to install a new hard drive and reinstall all the programs and copy back all the data files. Jim |
||
Posted on: 2011/12/30 19:12
|
|
||
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #6 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Moderator
Joined: 2009/9/24
From Brighton, UK
Posts: 6312
|
The point is that you need a different driver for AHCI mode than for legacy mode. If you installed Windows with one active and then switch to the other, it doesn't have the right driver installed and you end up with a stop 7B. If your CMOS battery had run down then it might have reset all the BIOS settings to defaults including the AHCI mode to the option that was not used when Windows was installed and then it won't boot.
|
||
|
_________________
Linux/VoIP Systems Administrator |
|||
Posted on: 2011/12/30 20:29
|
|
||
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #7 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Moderator
Joined: 2007/10/22
From ~/Earth/UK/England/Suffolk
Posts: 9131
|
As there is nothing in this thread that relates to CentOS, it has been moved to social.
 When it comes to that Redmond OS --   |
||
Posted on: 2011/12/31 0:26
|
|
||
|
Re: dual boot machine, windows broke | #8 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular Board Member
Joined: 2006/2/5
From
Posts: 191
|
TrevorH
I looked up AHCI and I believe mine is set the same as before ( enhanced ) on all ide devices. Hope thats what you ment Thanks Jim |
||
Posted on: 2011/12/31 1:15
|
|
||
|
Re: [RESOLVED] dual boot machine, windows broke | #9 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Regular Board Member
Joined: 2006/2/5
From
Posts: 191
|
For those who might care
I was able to copy all the files from the mounted ntfs (with ntfs-3g) system to the external hard drive. I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled window xp and reloaded the sp2 sp3 updates and am now trying to reinstall the programs, gimp, thunderbird, firefox, rhino and many others. The files for these programs still exist on the external drive and as I have time I will copy them back to the new drive. Not a disaster but a pain. One anyone that uses windoze knows to well. Jim |
||
Posted on: 2012/1/1 16:01
|
|
||
 Top Previous Topic Next Topic |
 |
|
You cannot start a new topic.