Windows 10: Having some issues booting specifically into anything windows related.

So my machine will boot into ubuntu fine.

I can't get it to boot into Windows or Windows recovery media and its fully stumped me.

Sometimes it gives me a DRIVER_PNP_WATCHDOG blue screen other times its just endlessly loading.

I've removed basically everything, and just tried booting with a drive with no windows installed and a USB recovery media drive and it just does the same.

Any ideas?

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Windows XP no boot

I have a no boot issue in windows XP. It just keeps giving me the "no boot device" or something similar. It will boot from the Windows XP Home disk without any issues. I have tried replacing the boot.ini, fixmbr, and fixboot. None of these have worked. I even went so far as to doing the repair by installing Windows XP Home. When it rebooted it still gave me the same reading.

I can get it to boot from a Paragon Rescue disk though. I am at a loss on this one. My next step is to run a boot virus check I suppose, as this system had over 300 trojans, virus' and malware.

This is a friends computer that has a bunch of his work related documents so I don't want to reformat or anything unless it has to.

 

Having issues with boot time on my gaming pc

Hi JonathanC,

I would also try using the Sysinternals tool, Process Monitor to log the boot time activity of your computer.

Process Monitor - Windows Sysinternals

Here is a blog post from Mark Russinovich detailing how he used it to solve a slow login and another article that provides more info on its boot logging capability:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2012/07/02/3506849.aspx

Use Process Monitor To Optimize The Windows Boot Process - gHacks Tech News

You might also consider using the Logon and Services tabs of Sysinternals Autoruns tool to ensure that you are running as clean a system as possible:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902

This tool should show more information than CCleaner (I could be wrong about that).

Please also run the following tools and let us know the results since MBR infections can cause slow boots (these infections cannot be removed with a re-format of the hard drive since the MBR is not written to during the standard format process).

You should backup any data that you cannot afford to lose before proceeding with the steps below since they can occasionally cause further issues:

TDSS Killer:
Download the Kaspersky TDSS Killer tool from here:

http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.exe

Instructions on how to use it are here:

http://support.kaspersky.com/find?faq_id=2663

You might also find the following article on TDSS rootkits useful:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-tdss-tdl3-alureon-rootkit-using-tdsskiller

Repairing MBR
If after the above steps, the issue of slow a boot up remains, I would suggest creating a new MBR using the Windows Recovery Console (I realize that you are using Windows 7, I have included the steps for Windows XP for reference only):

Windows XP
How to install the Recovery Console:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us

How to use and the commands available in the Recovery Console:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us

The command you will need is fixmbr

Windows Vista and Windows 7
The procedure for repairing the MBR using Windows Vista or Windows 7 is different from Windows XP, for information on the steps necessary, please see the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

As before, start the computer and put the Windows installation DVD in your optical drive and boot from it.

Press a key when prompted, set the language and keyboard layout that you wish to use when the GUI (Graphical User Interface) loads.

Follow the steps mentioned in the above knowledge base article to open a Command Prompt window and type:

Repair the MBR
Bootrec.exe /FixMbr

Reboot the computer.

If necessary (i.e. the issue is still occuring), type the following command:

Repair the Windows Boot Loader
Bootrec.exe /FixBoot

If necessary, type the following command:

Repair the BCD (Windows Vista and Windows 7 only)

Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd

If you encounter the "Bootmgr is Missing" error on boot up, you can instead use the following commands to resolve it:

Follow the above steps but substitute the commands after opening the Command Prompt window (using the boot from DVD steps mentioned in the above knowledge base article):

bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd

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MBR.exe:
http://www2.gmer.net/mbr/mbr.exe

Download this program and run it as administrator. If the text file (.txt) file that it creates in the same folder as you downloaded this program to mentions any of the following text, you probably have an infection:

Copy of MBR has been found in sector
malicious code @ sector
PE file found in sector at [memory location within MBR]

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The steps details above should remove this infection if it is present, if not, please re-post in this thread.

I hope the above information is of assistance to you.

Thank you.

 

Having issues with boot time on my gaming pc

Will be trying this now, Never thought of the MBR at all, wonder if maybe thats causing the issue...

Well never have and never will install norton lol! damn thing is a virus in its self! as for my boot sequence I am pretty tech savvy, the only thing booting before my hard drive is the cd rom, but moving it down does nothing lol... This problem is throwing everyone in a loop huh ?