Windows 7 crashing during boot

[subxero]

Could someone please help me. I am dual booting Windows 7 & OSX. All has been fine up until this morning. When I boot to Windows 7, it gets as far as the animated logo sequence and then reboots my machine. I tried the recovery console, (both from the drive and the installation disc) but it does not detect the installation (drive). It gives the option to install hard drive drivers, but that should not be the issue, as MS have their own generic drivers which were used in the original installation in the first place.

There is nothing wrong with the drive. I can access it fine from OSX.

 

[blaaislaai]

What was installed first.. OSX or Windows7 ? You should get to the boot menu and disable "Automatic Restart on system failure" to actually see the reason why its booting. You should end up with a blue screen then.

 

[subxero]

I had XP first. Installed OSX Snow Leopard on the second drive in November last year (had OSX Leopard on it before & Tiger before that). Formatted the XP drive and installed 7 at the beginning of the year. It does,t matter really. the multiboot menu is installed on the OSX drive. So in BIOS, I can set first boot to either. By setting first boot to the 7 drive ignores the OSX drive completely.

I went into the DOS prompt from the recovery console and tried to change from the virtual temp drive x: to c: and get an error ... something about the volume being corrupt and unreadable.

The strange thing is Windows does start booting from the drive ... just crashes as the logo comes together. Hell, it even runs the recovery console from the drive too. I'm quite baffled.

EDIT: Hit F8 on startup and chose the Disable Automatic Restart on system failure option ... Got the blue screen which says Restart your machine and run CHKDSK /F. That was what I wanted to do in the first place. But recovery console does not detect the drive, so cannot run the command. Will probably find it quicker to backup from OSX and re-install. FacePalm moment of note! I hate not being able to repair issues instead of format and re-install...

 

[kronoSX]

get a program called easybcd or similar for osx..etc and try repair

 

[SecretCode]

I had a similar thing on a machine dual booting Win 7 and Ubuntu with GRUB2. In my case though, a second attempt at booting Win 7 would always succeed so I haven't investigated any further.