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Cannot boot from my hard drive since booting from the recovery disc!

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Hi guys,

First post here so go easy on me please! I'm one seriously frustrated end user here! I have just spent the past 5 days installing Windows 7 64 bit ultimate on my PC and customising it down to the last final details. Today my copy of TI 2010 arrived and I installed the front end in Windows [I did nothing else]. I then rebooted the PC and decided to see what the recovery disc did. Again, I did nothing else but explore the menus. I then rebooted the PC and now I cannot get the thing to boot - It states I have to boot off of the Win 7 disc and do a repair (which it fails). Having had a nosey around, I see that there is a 'Reserved' partition (drive C) of 100mb where the recovery stuff is running from. So I'm guessing that when I restart the PC its trying to boot on this drive, when Win 7 is actually now on drive D. How the devil do I get it back to a bootable state please!!!

Thanks in advance.

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Toby Flack wrote:

Hi guys,

So I'm guessing that when I restart the PC its trying to boot on this drive, when Win 7 is actually now on drive D. How the devil do I get it back to a bootable state please!!!

Thanks in advance.

Toby,
Hello.. I have no clue as to what has happened ..by using the recovery disk.. However if it were my PC , i would boot into the "BIOS" menu and also check the "BIOS" configuration (Esc and F-10 on my PC) to check what has changed . If you can't see anything out of place, then use the boot menu to select your "Windows 7 \ 64 OS" and click on that... Once up then right click on computer >properties>advanced system setting>start-up and recovery>settings> make sure you choose Windows 7 from the drop down as default. Just a guess but at least it's somewhere to start from Regards Fred

Hello all,

Thank you very much for your posts. I will definitely help you.

JustPlainFred,

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Toby Flack,

Please accept my sincerest apologies for the inconvenience. You can fix your Windows boot loader, please use this article for instructions.

If you need additional help, please let me know.

Thank you.