Win 7 64-bit unable to boot (blinking cursor)

[Takuya]

I feel quite embarrassed at being unable to figure this out, being a CS major and all.

I restored my Boot Camp partition from a disk image, and I know that's always a recipe for disaster but hear me out. I would reinstall but right now I don't have my disks.

At first, it said "no bootable device"

I ran fdisk and diskpart to mark the partition as active via MBR and GPT.

Then I ran bootrec /fixmbr, /fixboot, /rebuildBcd.

I've tried deleting the bcd and letting the system rebuild it.

I've also tried bcdboot, and bootsect /nt60 all.

I have BCD entries, but I can't even access the safe mode options with F8.

I dunno what to do at this point. Any suggestions?

I also tried to synchronize the MBR with rEFIt.

 

[mynameismary]

I feel quite embarrassed at being unable to figure this out, being a CS major and all.

I restored my Boot Camp partition from a disk image, and I know that's always a recipe for disaster but hear me out. I would reinstall but right now I don't have my disks.

At first, it said "no bootable device"

I ran fdisk and diskpart to mark the partition as active via MBR and GPT.

Then I ran bootrec /fixmbr, /fixboot, /rebuildBcd.

I've tried deleting the bcd and letting the system rebuild it.

I've also tried bcdboot, and bootsect /nt60 all.

I have BCD entries, but I can't even access the safe mode options with F8.

I dunno what to do at this point. Any suggestions?

I also tried to synchronize the MBR with rEFIt.

This may not do anything for you at all, but why not try to help, right?

I restored my Windows from a clone when I swapped out my hard drive for a new (bigger!) one. I used Ghost, if that matters.
I ran bootcamp and a new install of XP3. Rebooted. Installed Ghost then booted from the Ghost CD. Restored Win 7 from Ghost image. All is well.

Either way, I wish you luck!

 

[balamw]

I restored my Boot Camp partition from a disk image, and I know that's always a recipe for disaster but hear me out.

A few pieces of information you didn't provide that could be helpful.

Which Mac? Which particular W7 variant? Which imaging software/approach did you use?

Winclone actually works extremely well and is usually not a recipe for disaster so I'm surprised by your assertion that imaging is.

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[Takuya]

I ended up finally procuring a disc and just reinstalling.

Imaging with diskutility is what I meant, since DU, diskutil, and their brethren don't do a bit-for-bit copy like winclone.

All is good though.

I am pretty sure the incompatibility was solely the bootcode and differing UUIDs.

 

[balamw]

Glad to hear it!

Imaging with diskutility is what I meant, since DU, diskutil, and their brethren don't do a bit-for-bit copy like winclone.

Actually, depending on the mode it's used in, Winclone is just a GUI front end to diskutil or ntfsclone and doesn't have a bit copy mode. It just does a bit more accounting to put things back the way they were and make things bootable again.

You can see exactly what it is doing in the log files.

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