0x000000e: A True Story

That's how I have Mint 10 installed on my desktop, through the Caviar Black drive that I bought earlier in the year. I have 600GB of it partitioned as "Backup", the rest goes for Mint, and a final 4GB "swap" partition. I believe that it serves the same purpose as the "pagefile" does in Windows, but that may not be exact.

Anyway, I can run Mint through USB this way, it's a little slower, but far faster than my notebook runs. Plus I have 6 Windows VM's within it, so actually I have the best of both worlds in one.

Cat

Okay, the Windows 7 DVD burned, but didn't boot. Along with three others that I tried. I checked the files inside and they seemed fine. I also found a guy who had made a Windows 7 x64 recovery iso (OMGYAY!), but I burned that and it didn't boot either. I also managed to install Ubuntu and boot to it. From there I used Lilo to attempt to reset the MBR on Windows, which put me back at the beginning. I restart and... blank screen. I can't boot into anything now.

I feel like this is a puzzle, like a Rubik's Cube. By the way, when I tried to do Startup Repair inside the W7 install DVD, it gave me the following error.

ROOT CAUSE
Boot Configuration Corrupt
Action: Partition Table repair
Error code: 0x490

That's not word for word, but it's what happened.

Halp?

HI BetaMan

Looking up 0x490 at MSDN Search, the only relevant topic seems to be this one.

How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows

First of all I'll assume you're setting the DVD drive as the "First Boot Device" in the motherboard's BIOS>

Second, I am sure you burned the Windows 7 ISO image to the DVD using something like ImgBurn to where you can verify the burn to make sure all went okay. Plus you also burnt no faster than 4-8X burning speed to get a good accurate burn.

Yes, I set it as the first boot device, but no, I used the default Ubuntu 9.10 DVD/CD burner at the time. I'm going to retry it now with the Apple Leopard default burner because that one verifies and I'm sure is works. While that's burning, I'm going to try "bootrec.exe /rebuildBCD". It sounds like it might help;

GUYS! I managed to get Windows to attempt to install, and it got through all of the stages except "Completing Installation", where it told me that the directory "C:/boot" was corrupted. SADNESS! However, once I closed that window and went to startup repair, it told me that it discovered a partition that was broken and could recover it, so I clicked yes, and it restarted and booted. My heart was beating, until I didn't even get an OS selection screen. The BIOS dumped and the my screen looked like the following.

<double rainbow guy> What does this mean?? </double rainbow guy> Hmm, I assume it's because of the corrupted boot folder on the installation disk. So basically, I need the /boot folder of someone's W7 x86 install disk.

I can has pl0x?

Also, the recover CD might just do the job, so we'll see.

EDIT: Alright, I'm burning the disk right now on 10x and verify checked. We'll see how this goes down.

I hope it burns okay at 10X, I recommended no faster than 8X. I myself burn install ISOs no faster than 4X. Thrax disagrees with me on this one, but it has never failed me. It may take 12 minutes or so, but I just go have a cigarette and when I come back it's done.

I have always found that using a windows-based application to burn windows software with is the best way to go.

Okay, here's the update.

I've managed to install Windows 7 Ultimate x86 on the 64GB partition that XP was on, but the 337GB main partition is corrupted. I ran a checkdisk and I'm going to run another, but I can't even browse it in explorer. I get the following message.

Where do I go from here?

I'm bumping this because I don't think anyone has seen it. I've Googled for answers, but that hasn't worked.