I am running Windows 7 and my C drive had very little space left on it. I used Easus Partition Manager to extend my E drive. I of course took a backup of my E Drive. However, after performing the operations and attempting to reboot the computer, it would open onto a black screen with the mouse pointer on it. I waited for 5 minutes and no change, I could only assume it had hung. I can boot it in safe mode with no issue. How do I boot normally?
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To repair booting windows, follow these steps
- Boot From the Windows Install Disc
- And then click through until you see the “Repair your computer” link in the lower left-hand corner
- You’ll need to choose the correct installation of Windows and then click the Next button
- And then you’ll get to the System Recovery Options screen, where you can get to the Command Prompt.
- If you want to restore the master boot record,
you can simply type in the following command:
bootrec /fixmbr
You can also write a new boot sector onto the system partition with this command (which is often more useful):
bootrec /fixboot
Also you can using the Automated Startup Repair, just use the Startup Repair option from the Recovery menu .
see this page for screenshots ...
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1If they are able to boot up in start mode, then the MBR and the boot sector are already good. Aug 30, 2013 at 19:58
Building on MYamanT's comment, you should try bootrec /REBUILDBCD, if that doesn't work, you can use BCDEdit to look for errors in your BCD store.