A Digital Age Deserves A Digital Leader

Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Forum rules
Please start your own topic for support with problems you experience. Even if it appears to be exactly the same as someone else's problem, system configurations differ significantly. Thank you.

It may take our support staff between 24-48 hours to respond to your problem. We are a small business and strive to answer your questions as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience.

Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby rdmoritz » Sat May 15, 2010 12:16 pm

I have a Vista drive that will not boot to desktop. If I slave the drive to another computer will I be able to install DualBoot and fix the BCD on the slaved Vista drive?
PRO New Member
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat May 15, 2010 12:07 pm

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby yeshuas » Sat May 15, 2010 1:08 pm

What is the harddrive doing when you turn the computer on?

Does it act like it is trying to boot?

Do you get anything on the monitor?

Does the computer make any beeping sounds, or any sounds at all?
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby rdmoritz » Sat May 15, 2010 3:15 pm

It's an HP dv6000 series laptop running Vista Ultimate. We were having trouble with the DVD drive. We did a system restore back a couple of weeks. Then when we rebooted the computer, it wouldn't get to the desktop. It boots up all the way to the white mouse arrow against the black screen and then just stops there. One more step and we'd have desktop. But it just hangs at the mouse arrow and goes no further.
PRO New Member
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat May 15, 2010 12:07 pm

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby yeshuas » Sat May 15, 2010 3:33 pm

Remove any disks in the DVD/CD drive, then unplug the laptop, remove the battery, remove and replace the memory and harddrive if you can, then replace the battery. tighten any screws on the bottom of the laptop, and see if any of that helps.
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby rdmoritz » Sat May 15, 2010 3:52 pm

Nope. I did what you suggested. I even removed the little cadmium battery from the MB thinking maybe resetting the CMOS would do the trick but the result is the same. Still white arrow with black blank screen. I think when it gets to this point its beyond the BIOS and the OS should be taking it. That's why I'm thinking its something to do with the Vista boot file. (Yes, No Maybe??)
PRO New Member
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat May 15, 2010 12:07 pm

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby yeshuas » Sat May 15, 2010 4:04 pm

Apparently you don't have the original Vista Disk I am taking it, so if you want to recover the info that is on the computer, you will have to either try to borrow one, or do a search for a Vista Recovery Disk iso download, download it and burn it to a DVD, and try a Repair using the disk
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby rdmoritz » Sat May 15, 2010 4:13 pm

Actually, I do have my disks but that brings me to my other problem with this computer. Its not recognizing the DVD drive in the BIOS so it won't boot to disk. I've also tried to hook up an external DVD drive but that doesn't work either. I've also tried to hit F11 to access the recovery partition and for some reason it won't let me do that either. So do you think its possible to slave the HD to another computer and repair the boot sector using DualBootPro? I think something like that is my only option.
PRO New Member
Posts: 4
Joined: Sat May 15, 2010 12:07 pm

Re: Fixing BCD on a slaved drive

Postby yeshuas » Sat May 15, 2010 4:17 pm

I thought you were suppose to hit F10 to get into recovery on a HP computer.

At any rate I don't know if what you are suggesting would work, maybe someone else has tried or done what you have suggested so hang tight
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Return to Windows Boot Problems

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests

cron
cron