Sager bios enter
I noticed in the bios that there are 2 HDDs in there- disk 0 and disk 1 yet only one disk shows up in mini Xp when I use hirams boot disk and look in disk manager.
Sager bios enter windows#
It seems this is to do with the hard drive but I don't know anything else.ĭuring the steps above it did try to start a few times and run the chkdsk thing itself but it just kept repeating that and then I removed the windows DVD and it would then only go to a black screen with cursor flashing- stayed like that for hours. This time a blue screen stayed on!! I could read it. I finally saw the option to hit F8 very briefly so hit F8 and it brought up the options I had seen only once before- to not auto restart on a stop. I thought about the flash of blue I saw a few times earlier and looked for hours while it tried to boot. Http /Ok I tried both procedures to fix the MBR and it went through a lot of steps but it still doesn't start up. So nothing seems to get past this so far. In the boot sequence tried moving the second HDD from 6 up to 2 and booted- I saw ablue screen flash briefly then back to square 1- restart. In the BIOS I see two HItachi drives on SATA ports 1 and 2. In disk manager I see disk 0 with two partitions (C: System -Healthy active) and (D: Windows healthy) In device manager the only disk I see is Volume0 and it says manufacturer unknown The Windows drive has the program files and other folders. I never saw these messages in the start ups. Some of the english text there says "a disk read error ocurred BOOTMGR is missing BOOTMGR is compressed. The file named BOOTSECT.BAK will open in notepad++ I looked in the C: (system drive) and among the files there is bootmgr, BOOTMGR.BAK, IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS. There is a system drive (C and WIndows drive (D I attached a USB disk and copied the files to it but hey may not be of any use without the machine running again. Hirams boot disk again- I tried mini windows xp and it starts like this and gives a desktop. At one time I managed to get an option to NOT restart on errors (maybe that was the Windows CD) so I chose that and the next start showed a blue screen. It has restarted so many times I couldn't keep track. I'm afraid I am busy at work so I had it running to the side of me so couldn't monitor all the screens. If I don't choose within so many seconds it starts up anyway and -flash- back to thje bios splash screen( it says Sager) then the boot manager. Whatever I choose here it simply loads the files for a few seconds then the screen shuts down and the bios splash screen appears agin and its back to the windows boot manager screen.
Sager bios enter windows 7#
If I choose windows 7 (recovered) it shows a menu for start up options (safe mode etc.) If i choose windows 7 it does the same restart thing.
Sager bios enter professional#
It now shows a "windows boot manager" screen at start up and gives the option to start windows 7 or windows 7 professional (recovered). I tried a windows 7 cd and ran the repair installation but it couldn't start properly either. had to dimount the drive as it requested, the it reported no problems.Īfter all the options the only one left is to restart- back to square 1 I tried memory diagnostic- no difference (it boots up on a linux CD anyway so memory is probably ok- it seems like the boot hard drive is the issue). I tried start up repair but it didn't work I tried system restore but it failed the only restore point (an update) That allows it to start windows 7 but as soon as it starts it says it detected a fault and the black screen gives the option to run the startup repair tool. OK- I have tried hirams boot disk and tried fixing the MBR.