[stevenits1]

I know I have another thread going but this is a different PC and a seperate problem. This problem is on my main PC that I build a year ago, it is running Windows7 and a messsage came up in the task bar where the little flag is and said a function of my Anti-virus (Panda 2012) was not operating correctly and I needed to change on of my settings to allow it to function, so I did and when I restarted it on the screen this appeared in white lettering with a compleatly black screen:

File:\Boot \ BCD

Status: Oxc000000F

info: An error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

Please insert you genuine Windows disk and re-boot if it was a software error select "Fix", you might need to change boot order.

First I tried the disk like it said but it just restarted to the same screen, so I found the book for my MB and it told me how to change the boot order, I tried it and when I selected the CD drive with the "Enter" key it restarted instead of waiting for me to press ESC button. Can anyone help me? I will give all the info I have but this is all I have for now.

[Macboatmaster]

If it is a simple installation of windows 7, on one HDD and not a dual boot, and not a raid array

then it should not be too difficult to repair

However if you cannot get a boot to the windows7 dvd, then clearly something else is wrong, as the computer booting to the DVD, is not controlled by a defect on the file system of the HDD, as of course, booting to the DVD is how 7 is installed in the first place.

I hope you do not think I am being unhelpful, as of course I have replied to your topic, but I find it a little surprising that YOU - having built the system you say, then have to refer to the Motherboard manual on how to change a boot order

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This problem is on my main PC that I build a year ago

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, so I found the book for my MB and it told me how to change the boot order

there are basically two ways to change a boot order depending on the system , one is in BIOS change boot priority and is a change effecting all future boots,.
The other is frequently a F key and effects only the boot at that time.

If the one you have tried is the one time boot I suggest you try the BIOS - change boot priority - make the DVD drive the first boot device.
Boot to that with the DVD in.

The Win7 DVD - Please confirm what this is - ie Microsoft Windows 7 - version etc and is the DVD you are attempting to boot from the same DVD as installed the system

[stevenits1]

Macboatmaster,
I get what you are saying but you and I both know it does not take a genious to build a PC, all it takes is some technical ability and a good instruction manual.
I tried both methods you described, both will not work. What is my next step? I even tried running the back up discs I made and they would not work. Yes, it is a genuine Win 7 dvd and the same one used to set up this PC. I do not know the version.

[Macboatmaster]

Well if you have changed the boot priority in the BIOS to DVD first, then it is stuck in that loop, or alternatively the DVD drive is not reading the DVD as a boot device.

I would disconnect the HDD SATA and see if it will then boot to DVD
If it does, reconnect the HDD to the same port and try again

Also see if the DVD will boot another computer

[stevenits1]

Sorry it has taken a while to get the info you requested I've had other things I had to attend to but this is important also so I will be giving you something soon.

[Macboatmaster]

No rush at your convenience

[stevenits1]

Macboatmaster,

I will answer your questions in order:

1. I unplugded HDD and it booted to DVD drive, it moved slow but it went all the way through.

2. I then plugged the HDD back in to the same port and the problem came back just like the original problem.

3. Yes the DVD disc boots other pc.

What I ended up doing is switching sata connectors, I plugged the DVD into the original HDD port and the HDD into the port where the DVD was plugged in and then rebooted the pc with Win7 disc in and it booted a little slow and the black windos loading screen apeared, it asked for my language settings, then it asked Install or Repair so I clicked repair like the original message told me to choose a recovery tool, image created before OR recovery list: start up repair, system restore, system image.
This is where I'm stuck at now, I tried using the windows back up discs I made and they don't work and I'm afraid if I use restore point I will lose my files I saved on there. What next?

[Macboatmaster]

I am not quite certain what you have now but try start up repair
if it reports that it has made repairs and you still cannot boot run it again, as it only repairs one aspect at a time
If it reports then or on a subsequent attempt that it cannot repair, is one of the option then the cmd prompt.

If it is see if you can access the cmd prompt
it will boot to that on the following
X:\Sources>

that X is a ramdrive on which the cmd prompt is loaded, change that X to a C prompt by typing
C:
and key enter
now type
dir
is your window listed there.
Come back when you reach that stage please

[stevenits1]

Macboatmaster,
I hope I did this right, I booted it up with the disc in and it got to where you said to go and it told me three times that it could not repair so then I selected the command promt and typed
C: then enter
It said "Device not ready"
So I tried the "dir" like you said but with the x because that was the only thing it would let me do the message said:

Volume in drive x is boot
Volume serial number is D60A- 0DC2
Then a long list with 3 colums formated like this:
(mm/dd/yyyy) hh:mm message

At the end of this string of messages it said "74 files 33,375,582 bytes, 6 Dir 32,731,136 bytes free"

What exactly should I have been looking for?

Thank you, stevenits1

[Macboatmaster]

Try this cmd at the cmd prompt
type this command press enter:

bcdedit | find "osdevice"

If that reports os device partition and a letter, then change now to THAT letter, the recovery environment sometimes moves drive letters one forward, so what was C maybe D
then run the chkdsk

[stevenits1]

Macboatmaster,

I did what you said and this is what it said:

X:sources>bcdedit
The boot configuration data could not be operated the requested system device cannot be found.

X:sources>osdevice
`osdevice`is not a recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file.

I'm I doing this the right way?

Thank you,
Steven

[Macboatmaster]

No you are not please type it as the one line cmd shown

bcdedit | find "osdevice"

[stevenits1]

I type it in just like you said:
X:sources>bcdedit / find "osdevice"
And it does nothing but give me this : X:sources.
I don't have the symbol that separates bcdedit and find on my phone but on my pc I did it just like you did. What is next ?

[Macboatmaster]

It is NOT /
It is |

[stevenits1]

That is what I was getting at when I said I don't have it on my phone because I'm replying to you from my phone. When I tried it on my PC I used the proper symbols. I used the proper symbol and it still did nothing.