Author Topic: msconfig Utility (Read 16035 times)

qurious · « **on:** March 18, 2012, 06:21:04 pm »

In the System Configuration Utility the buttons in the Boot tab window are locked. All the other tabs are fine. I have run a system file check and check disk but the problem remains. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2012, 08:15:09 pm »

Haven't seen that before, can you post a screen shot?

Shane

qurious · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2012, 09:01:00 pm »

Screenshot doesn't show anything useful but all the buttons in this tab are locked.
Thank you for the reply.

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2012, 09:37:09 pm »

Thats the problem, nothing is showing up for the boot option.

As you see with the one I attached something should be showing up.

This means something is wrong with the boot manager on your system.

The free version of this should help you repair and rebuild it

http://neosmart.net/download.php?id=1

Shane

qurious · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2012, 08:41:18 am »

Thanks for the information Shane. If you are around have you any idea what this means [see screenshot]?

qurious · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:17:07 am »

Update! Used "bootrec /rebuildbcd" successfully but the msconfig boot window is still frozen.

Shane · « **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2012, 11:44:53 am »

Is the list still empty in the msconfig?

Shane

qurious · « **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2012, 12:05:08 pm »

Hi Shane. Yes there is no difference and no default OS listed in either EasyBCD or Windows dropdown menu [screenshot].

Shane · « **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2012, 12:06:45 pm »

What version of Windows and are you dual booting at all?

Such as having more than 1 OS installed.

Shane

Shane · « **Reply #9 on:** March 19, 2012, 12:07:55 pm »

I found this

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Thanks for offering fixes but I fixed it myself. My installation was not corrupt, quite the opposite. It loaded fine and all was well with the only exception being that the list of systems had nothing in it under the Startup and Recovery area.

In any case I solved it by setting the (I'm in a RAID-0 array) C: partition to 'Active' which over-wrote the boot manager. I then started the startup recovery from the Windows 7 disc and it put the boot manager back.

I was trying to use the msconfig tool to set active processors on boot from 1 to 4 but it was initially all unavailable because there was no system labeled in the 'Startup' area (System and Recovery). All of this was fixed after repairing the boot manager. So perhaps that did somehow get 'corrupt' even though all was working fine.

Shane

qurious · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2012, 08:35:46 pm »

Thanks for the information. Seems to be very relevant and tried to do what was indicated but afterwards the system reported Bootmgr missing. I restored from image backup but unfortunately the backup contains the same misconfiguration of the boot manager. Sick of this now and have no more ideas. Thanks for all your help, greatly appreciated!

Shane · « **Reply #11 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:37:41 pm »

A repair install would be a good idea before a fresh install

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Shane