I need some help fast please. I recently booted up my gaming rig after swapping out a 7970 graphics card and upon system boot up, as the Windows 7 logo appeared the system crashes and a BSOD appears for a split millisecond and I'm asked to start up repair Windows or start Windows normally. However when I click startup repair, a black error screen appears with the following error message:
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." 3. Click "repair your computer." If you don't have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. Status: 0xc000000e Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
Now I've fixed this before multiple times. except this instance nothing seems to work. I've tried the following:
- check for any unplugged or loose cables
- Re installed my RAM
- Booted with on-board graphics
- unplugged all USB devices and external devices with the exception of the keyboard and mouse
- Booted with system installation disc and attempted system repair several times only with the same outcome of wanting to restore from a previous system restoration point however it always fails
- changed the boot type to IDE which made the system boot further past the logo screen however it still crashes with the same error
- From the system installation disc I ran a chkdsk /f and no corruptions or bad sectors were found
However, I did run from the installation disc a "bcdedit" and my osdevice was unknown and my boot manager and bootloader were set to two different drives on being D: and the other being C:. So I relinked all three back to the D: drive as the Windows installation disc says that's where Windows 7 is installed, although in the actual Windows 7 My Computer it's listed as C: drive which is weird? Anyway after relinking them using bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=D: and the other two commands my recovery partition disappeared which was listed as C:, and now I can only see my local drive? That did not fix the error, so I tried one last thing and ran another chkdsk D: /f /r
which is taking for ages and I'm assuming my hard drive and its contents are still intact, because it's taking so long and there are 612080 files to be processed!
I thought I might try and rebuild Master Boot Record?
I don't want to lose any of my data. Well I hope I haven't lost any because I have over 150+ games and their saves :(
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. :D