What solutions have you tried that failed? It's best to know what didn't work before one starts suggesting what might work. That notwithstanding: Has it ever worked before? If so, what may have changed in the interim? Is this a new installation and if so, where did you get the installation disk or ISO file? You don't have to use a repair disk made by a certain machine. Any Win7 32 bit disk will work on any Win7 32 bit OS machine. Same for 64 bit. Try making a disk on a different machine as a temporary workaround. You might try running the system file checker: sfc /scannow.
additionally for sfc if being ran from dvd repair cmd prompt the boot partition usualy is hidden 100mb first then the actual ntfs c: then you would need sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c: /offwindir=d:
I ran that command and didn't help the only thing I haven't tried yet is this one because I didn't really understand it Here's the correct way to fix this problem for Windows 7 (and probably Vista too!)... Open a command prompt. Type bcdedit /enum all You will see an entry (probably several) that says C:\Recovery\(some long string)\winre.wim,(same long string) Make the following directory based on the value (some long string) that is shown above. For example purposes only: md c:\Recovery\0b3447fa-c429-11de-afd2-bdec487c77bb If folder already exists, great Insert your Windows 7 install DVD and cancel any autorun prompts. Assumption is that D: is your CD/DVD drive - change accordingly ;-) copy d:\sources\boot.wim c:\Recovery\0b3447fa-c429-11de-afd2-bdec487c77bb\winre.wim (or just open in explorer and drag d:\sources\boot.wim to the folder on your HDD and rename it to winre.wim - this is the all important part! copy d:\boot\boot.sdi c:\Recovery\0b3447fa-c429-11de-afd2-bdec487c77bb copy d:\boot\bootfix.bin c:\Recovery\0b3447fa-c429-11de-afd2-bdec487c77bb Remember, the folder "0b3447fa-c429-11de-afd2-bdec487c77bb" will probably not be the same on your machine...run bcdedit /enum all and find the correct name of the folder from the list (which will have "C:\Recovery" and "winre.wim" in the entry) Ruin recdisc.exe and voila you can make your recovery CD/DVD ;-) Also, this may also fix problems booting to the recovery partition (100MB) using "F8" (W7 only) - at least it did for me
thanks, but I didn't know where I should run this command from inside the windows or from the installation disc
Run the system file checker from both locations ... won't hurt a thing. May not find anything wrong but it won't hurt to run it. If that fails, sounds like it's time to do a full system restoration. That or wipe your drive and install Windows 7 using an ISO gotten via a link provided by this site. Or, if the rest of your system is functioning properly, just live with it.
"sfc /scannow" worked with me from both places but "sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c: /offwindir=d:" didn't work with me maybe I ran it wrongly anyway is there any other solution
if it is a "https:" address it would need to be an exception or trusted address in explorer would it not? check credentials in AV software as well.. Just a thought
If you can't live with it. "If that fails, sounds like it's time to do a full system restoration. That or wipe your drive and install Windows 7 using an ISO gotten via a link provided by this site."