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Unable to boot to Vista - Windows Boot Manager - \Boot\BCD error

Întrebare Unable to boot to Vista - Windows Boot Manager - \Boot\BCD error

  • Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:18 AM
     
     
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    I have a Dell XPS M1730 laptop running Windows Vista that would not boot today.  I am getting the "An error occurred while trying to read the boot configuration data" error message.  

    First thing I tried was booting from the Vista CD and running the repair console.  The OS is not displayed on the first screen of the recovery console but I was still able to run the Startup Repair option.  This fails though saying there is no OS loaded.  I then proceeded to open command prompt and ran bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, and bootrec /RebuildBCD.  These all complete, but when the BCD rebuild finishes it says there are no OS's loaded again.  I found another site that had me rename the memtest.exe file and replace the BCD file with it to get it on a lower sector to no avail.  

    While in recovery console I can browse the file system on the drive without any issues.  I installed the drive into a desktop and am currently backing up the files in case I need to re-install the OS.  

    I do not think the drive is bad and would much rather fix the issue if I can than re-install the OS and all apps.  Hopefully someone has some ideas?