Windows 7 bootloader recovery software.

Friends, many of you have had problems loading the operating system more than once and you asked the question how to restore Windows 7 boot and make the operating system boot normally. In this article, we will look at the most common ways to restore the Windows 7 bootloader, which help in most cases.

1. Repair Windows 7 Boot Using Repair Tool

Boot with your version of Windows 7. The main thing is that the bitness of the system matches (32-bit or 64-bit). Also, it is desirable that the release coincides (Home, Professional, Ultimate).

Instead of installing, choose System Restore.

Go to the "System Recovery Options" window and select the "Startup Repair" restore tool.

After that, the recovery program will search for errors in the boot sector and boot partition of Windows 7 and, if found, will try to fix them. After that, you will need to reboot the system and perhaps Windows 7 will boot normally.

If the first time it was not possible to restore the boot using the Windows 7 recovery tool, then try repeating this process 1-2 more times. This often helps, as the repair tool can't always fix multiple issues in one pass.

2. Repair Windows 7 Boot Using Command Prompt

If you were unable to restore your Windows 7 boot using the automatic repair tool, then try to do it using the command line. Boot with your version of Windows 7 and choose "System Restore" instead of installing.

Go to the "System Recovery Options" window and select the "Command Prompt" recovery tool.

After that, a window with a black background will appear in which you will need to write several commands.

Enter the following commands in turn:

Switching the language is done by pressing Alt+Shift. After entering each command (line), you need to press the "Enter" key.

Then restart your computer.

After that, in most cases, problems associated with the boot sector and bootloader of Windows 7 will disappear and the operating system will boot normally.

If after using the command line, Windows 7 still does not boot, then try again using the automatic boot repair tool, as we discussed above.

3. Recovery boot Windows 7 with reinstallation of the system

If you were unable to restore the boot of the operating system using the methods described above, then most likely you will have to delete partitions.

Before reinstalling Windows 7, copy all the files that are important to you from your hard drive to or. This can be done using any bootable LiveCD. Please note that an external drive or flash drive must be connected to the PC before booting from the LiveCD, otherwise it may not be detected.

If, due to boot errors, you are unable to reinstall Windows 7, then delete all partitions from the disk using a third-party utility, such as the Acronis Disk Director boot disk. After that, try again with the creation of new partitions.

If, when reinstalling Windows 7 at the disk setup stage (creating partitions, choosing a partition for installation) or when you restart the computer during the installation process, you experience the same boot errors, then launch the command prompt and run the commands that we discussed above.

In order to prevent problems with loading in the future, you need to determine what exactly led to the problem and not repeat these errors. If you are unable to restore Windows boot, other errors occur with the installation and operation of the system, refer to the site http://esate.ru where you will find instructions for solving various problems with the operating system.

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Need some good advice on how to Windows 7 bootloader recovery if the startup recovery using the installation disk of the seven did not help. I’ll briefly explain what’s the matter: Windows 7 was first installed on the computer, then Windows XP was needed as the second system, after installation it naturally started alone, I used the EasyBCD program to load two operating systems. In the future, XP became unnecessary and I formatted the partition on which it was located from Windows 7. Now, when loading, there is nothing but a black screen. What can be done in this case? More details if possible. Sergei.

Windows 7 bootloader recovery

Hello friends! Most importantly, do not worry, your problem is simple and, in principle, the simple tool "Windows 7 Startup Repair" described in our article should help, but! If this article does not help you, then two others should help:

these articles describe some more good ways to restore the boot of your operating system, besides them there is one more, so try it and don't just give up.

Let me remind you that you cannot install an older operating system after a younger one, Windows 7 will in no case boot after installation on a Windows XP computer, since the latter overwrites the master boot record (MBR) on itself during installation. Therefore, you installed an additional boot manager, which is used to configure the boot of several operating systems and has its own bootloader in turn.

1. I also want to say that often file system errors are to blame for unsuccessful loading of Windows 7, you can fix them even when the operating system does not load, all the details are in our other article " "
2. Friends, in this article we will work with the Windows 7 Recovery Environment, or more precisely with the command line of the Recovery Environment. I will give you the necessary commands, but if it is difficult for you to remember them, you can. This will greatly facilitate your work.

• The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the first sector on the hard disk, which contains the partition table and a small bootloader program that reads data in this table from which partition of the hard disk to boot the OS, then the information is transferred to the partition with the installed operating system, to download it. If the master boot record contains incorrect information about the location of the system, then we will receive various errors during boot, here is one of them "BOOTMGR is missing press CTR-Alt-Del for restart" or we will observe a black screen. The problem is being fixed Windows 7 bootloader recovery.

When you uninstalled old XP along with EasyBCD, you left your computer to fend for itself with a boot record that it did not understand, and it gives you a black screen as a token of gratitude. To remedy the situation, we will boot recovery Windows 7, namely, we will overwrite the master boot record using the utility Bootrec.exelocated on the recovery disk or on the Windows 7 installation disk (friends, if you have a netbook and want to use the recovery environment located on a USB flash drive, then read the comments first). Also, with this utility, we will write a new boot sector, understandable by Windows 7.

Windows 7 Boot Repair Automatically

We boot from the recovery disk or the installation disk with Windows 7, in the initial phase of booting the computer, when prompted to boot from the disk "Press any key to boot from CD ...", press any key on the keyboard for 5 seconds, otherwise you will not boot from the disk

There is a short search for installed Windows systems and an analysis of problems that prevent them from loading

Usually problems are found quickly and the recovery environment offers to fix them automatically. Click on the "Fix and restart" button, after which the computer will restart and the Windows 7 boot will be restored.

If the system boot problems continue or you are not prompted to fix the problems automatically, then in this window you need to select the operating system that you want to restore, you most likely have one and Next.

Choose a tool firstLaunch Recovery, it can also solve problems with loading Windows 7

Restoring the Windows 7 bootloader manually

If this remedy does not help, choose the remedy Command line

We enter the commands:

diskpart

lis vol (we display a list of hard disk partitions and see that "Volume 1" is a hidden partition System Reserved (Reserved by the system), the volume is 100 MB, it should contain Windows 7 boot files and it should be made active). We also see a partition with Windows 7 installed, it has the letter D:, the volume is 60 GB.

sel vol 1 (select Volume 1)

activ (make it active)

exit (exit diskpart)

bcdboot D:\Windows (where D: is the partition where Windows 7 is installed), this command restores the Windows 7 boot files (the bootmgr file and the boot storage (BCD) configuration files)!

"Download files created successfully"

Restoring the Windows 7 bootloader manually (method number 2)

In the command prompt window, enter the Bootrec command and Enter

comes full information about the capabilities of the utility. Select the MBR entry Bootrec.exe /FixMbr .

Operation completed successfully. A new boot record has been written to the first sector of the boot partition.
The second command Bootrec.exe /FixBoot writes a new boot sector.

Operation completed successfully. exit. Next, we try to load our Windows 7.

Friends, if the Bootrec.exe /FixMbr and Bootrec.exe /Fixboot commands do not help you, do not despair, there is one more tool.

Method number 3

We enter the command Bootrec /ScanOs, it will scan all your hard drives and partitions for operating systems, and if any are found, a corresponding warning will appear. Then you need to enter the command Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd, this utility will offer to add the found Windows to the boot menu, agree and enter Y and press Enter, all the Windows found are added to the boot menu.

In my case, two operating systems were found. Everything is visible on the screenshot.

In addition to the above method, there is another one, enter bootsect /NT60 SYS on the command line, the main boot code will also be updated.

exit

So, the error is that on both hard drives, the first hidden partitions System Reserved (Reserved by the system) should be marked with a red flag. On Windows 7, the volume of such a partition is 100 MB, and on Windows 8 350 MB, these partitions have the following attributes: System. Active and it is on these partitions that the boot storage configuration (BCD) files and the system boot manager file (the bootmgr file) reside. And we get these attributes are other sections. Because of this, Windows 7 and Windows 8 won't boot.

Select the first hard Disk 1, click on the first partition System Reserved (Reserved by the system) with the right mouse and select "Mark as active"

The "System Reserved" volume will be marked as active. We press OK.

We do the same with Disk 2. Acronis Disk Director runs in pending operation mode, so that the changes take effect, click the "Apply pending operations" button

Proceed.

As you can see, after our changes, those sections that you need have become active.

Exit the program and reboot. The result of the work is positive - both operating systems are loaded in turn.

Despite the huge number of built-in security measures, the abundance of multifunctional antiviruses and firewalls, the Windows bootloader can be damaged. This makes it impossible to start the operating system. If at startup you see a black screen for a long time without any visible changes or the inscription "bootmgr is missing" - you have become a victim of this particular problem. In this case, repairing the startup of Windows 7 can help.

Bootmgr is a special program called the Windows startup manager. It is to her that the BIOS transfers control after checking the health of the components and the hard drive. The manager reads information from the first sector of the disk and finds all the necessary data to start the OS, after which the process of starting the system itself begins.

Causes of breakdown

The most common cause of damage to the Windows bootloader is virus infection on the computer. In the process of actively surfing the Internet, as well as installing a variety of free software downloaded from dubious sources, a user can inadvertently download a malicious program that changes or removes part of the Bootmgr bootloader.

A similar result may occur due to power outages during operation of the device or incorrect changes to the boot sector of the hard drive. Therefore, never turn off the computer by unplugging the power cord or using the power supply shutdown button.

Windows Recovery

You can carry out this procedure using the installation disk or bootable USB flash drive. There are many ways to create a flash drive. One of the easiest is with special utilities like UNetBootIn or UltraISO. Burn the Windows 7 image to media, restart the computer and follow the instructions:

After this procedure, try restarting your computer and check the result. If the system still does not boot, try again to go to the options menu and select the "System Restore" item there. This process is more complicated and will take longer, but it can help solve the problem.

Starting the computer involves checking the BIOS of all hardware, and if the self-test is successful, loading Windows. The system is loaded thanks to the bootloader, in which special data is recorded for this. This data can be corrupted at any time and a type error and others will appear. If you see a similar error on the screen, or similar, but the fact is that Windows does not boot, you need to Windows 7 bootloader recovery. By the way, I wrote about restoring a boot record for other systems in the following articles:

Now let's get down to business.

Restoring the Windows 7 bootloader using a recovery disk

You need to get a disk with Windows 7, if there is one - great, but no, then make a bootable USB flash drive. The version in this case is not important, bit depth especially too. Boot from a flash drive. When you see the Windows installer at the bottom left, click "System Restore".

A small window will appear with system restore options. Select the system to restore. We press the "Next" button.

And here is the window with the necessary options. To get started, you can try automatic troubleshooting, this is the very first item, called "Launch Recovery". By clicking it, you just wait. The disadvantage of this method is that it does not always work, so we will use manual methods.

Using the command line

In recovery options, open a command prompt. There, enter the following command:

bootrec /fixmbr

With this simple command, you can restore the boot record on Windows 7. If it doesn’t help, go to the next step:

bootrec /fixboot

Both commands are more likely to restore the Windows 7 bootloader. Close the command prompt, restart the computer and see what happens. In fact, the system should boot without problems. If this is not the case, I have prepared a few more methods.

Using command line #Method 2

Again we enter the following commands and one additional one:

• bootrec /fixmbr
• bootrec /fixboot
• bootsect /nt60 ALL /force /mbr

Trying to boot the system.

Editing the boot.ini file

A special boot.ini file is responsible for booting the system. Today we will torture him. Perhaps its integrity was compromised as a result of a virus attack or a simple PC failure, so Restoring the bootloader of Windows 7 or another system is a priority.

We again need a bootable USB flash drive with the seven. Once downloaded, click the "Install" button. Go to the window with the choice of disk for installing the system. Press the Shift+F10 keys to launch the command prompt.

At the command line, enter:

notepad

We will open a notepad, where we need to click "File" and "Open". In the system drive, enable showing system files, otherwise you will not see boot.ini.

Edit this file with notepad. There are the following options:

• timeout=10– time to select the operating system boot (if there are several);
• multi(0) And disk(0)– these items should always look like this;
• rdisk(0)– disk number where the system partition is located. If you have two disks, then the parameter may look like rdisk(1).

The file itself may look like this, only instead of XP - Windows 7.

In most cases, editing Boot.ini will not be required. I also advise you to read about the errors of the following nature. There are slightly different methods for restoring the bootloader, but for Windows 7 they are also suitable.