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My BBM 1.0.5 has died

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:21 am
by RFSndrs
I came home from work this evening and my computer won't boot. It looks like:

Loading Operating System...
Boot from CD/DVD:
Boot from CD/DVD: (I have 2 DVDs installed)

I then put my BBM CD in the drive and rebooted. It came up with Upgrade as the only choice (the rest were grey)

So, I upgraded...nada. I then upgraded selecting the partition to install BBM...nada. I then tried resetting the MBR to Win7...nada. (I have Win7sp1 Ultimate installed.) I can see the partitions in the CD version of BBM (There are seven or eight and partitions are NOT limited.) But anything I seem to do, I can't get the drive to show the BBM menu or boot. (In retrospect, it's a good thing changing MBR to Win7 didn't work because of the unlimited partitions.)

I have 2 SATA drives installed, one 1.5TB with the OS's and the other a 1TB with images (I don't boot from this drive.) I can see both drives in BIOS and the boot drive settings are correct. I can see both drives in BBM. The Win7ULT partition is set active in MBR.

Hopefully, this is just an oversight on my part, but I don't know where to go next. Any suggestions??

Thanks for any help you may give,
Bob Sanders

Re: My BBM 1.0.5 has died

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:50 am
by DrTeeth
Try booting with one DVD drive and then the other - one might have died or a port on your m/b might have. Some USB devices when either faulty or powered up on boot can do strange things. Good luck.

DrT

Re: My BBM 1.0.5 has died

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:11 am
by RFSndrs
Thank you for your input and time to try help me.

The problem wasn't the CD/DVD drive. It is okay and I have BBM back again and here is what I did to get it back.

I had an old 500 GB drive around so I installed it with all other HDs removed and used the CD to delete all files on the 500GB drive. I had the CD install BBM on a separate partition. It did it at the beginning of the drive (as I expected it would). I restored my last backup (Jan 23, 2012) and the menu came up and I booted into my 'old' Win7ULT on the 500GB drive. It worked. I shutdown and reconnected my 1.5TB drive. I was able to see the 1.5TB drive, so I set a boot item for the Win7ULT on the 1.5TB drive. I rebooted and selected the 1.5TB Win7ULT. It said that the previous shutdown was a crash and would I like to boot normally, into safe mode, etc., etc. I said to boot normally and the partition booted normally. I removed the 500 GB drive and booted into the 1.5TB drive. BBM was now available and all was okay. I don't really what happened other than BBM couldn't handle a 'crash' drive, but I have had an occasional crash in the past and BBM worked as advertised. Any ideas on this as I really would like to know what happened?

Thanks,

Bob S

Re: My BBM 1.0.5 has died

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:52 pm
by RFSndrs
Guess this is just a bug...eh?

Re: My BBM 1.0.5 has died

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:34 pm
by DrTeeth
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:52:32 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
RFSndrs disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Guess this is just a bug...eh?

No idea, but I really admire your detective work.
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Cheers

DrT
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Re: My BBM 1.0.5 has died

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:45 pm
by TeraByte Support
Then BootIt wasn't even being booted by the BIOS up to that point (or you'd
get a message). If you'd wait a long time, the BIOS may have ended up
timing out, reporting a bad drive, then booting. If the drives are good,
may have required resetting BIOS to default or optimized values.

"RFSndrs" wrote in message news:1199@public.bootitbm...

I came home from work this evening and my computer won't boot. It looks
like:

Loading Operating System...
Boot from CD/DVD:
Boot from CD/DVD: (I have 2 DVDs installed)