HDD Booting Error

[NinetyFour]

What caused this to happen -
I've recently purchased a dual-bay hdd dock with standalone cloning. I used the standalone cloning feature, but powered off the dock long before the process had finished due to using 3TB hdds.

 

Next Steps -

When I used the hard drive immediately after doing the aforementioned steps, I found the drive was unable to boot into windows. No data wast lost, but windows would not boot. I then backed up my data on an external HDD, wiped the drive, and tried to reinstall windows. When I tried to reinstall windows, I then got the windows error " 0x80070057 which turns out to be a bootsec error.

 

Using my windows installation cd (which I made), I went to recovery tools > command prompt and then tried running various programs such as 'bootsec.exe' and 'bootrec.exe' to fix the booting. Some steps that i've done also ended up erroring saying that I cannot fix the boot error on a UEFI bios / GPT partition.

 

HELP!

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

You've messed up the partition table, and windows is unable to recognize it.

Do you have another computer or a boot disk with a partition manager on it? If so boot that and use that to wipe the drive to RAW then try again.

 

@NinetyFour

[NinetyFour]

You've messed up the partition table, and windows is unable to recognize it.

Do you have another computer or a boot disk with a partition manager on it? If so boot that and use that to wipe the drive to RAW then try again.

 

@NinetyFour

 

Well you know what steps i've done so far. I do have a laptop, that i'm actually using right now, but every partition manager program i've found is like $60 - $200. Do you have any recommendations?

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

Well you know what steps i've done so far. I do have a laptop, that i'm actually using right now, but every partition manager program i've found is like $60 - $200. Do you have any recommendations?

Hiren's boot disk is a great tool that I like to use. Not sure if it's free to use or what the deal is with it, I have had a copy for many years now.

[NinetyFour]

Hiren's boot disk is a great tool that I like to use. Not sure if it's free to use or what the deal is with it, I have had a copy for many years now.

Sorry for the delayed response, work's been brutal.

Is this what you mean? If so, which download specifically?

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

Sorry for the delayed response, work's been brutal.

Is this what you mean? If so, which download specifically?

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

 

 

It should be an AiO CD image that you can burn to a disk or make a bootable CD out of with all that on it.

[NinetyFour]

It should be an AiO CD image that you can burn to a disk or make a bootable CD out of with all that on it.

I'm still working on figure out the right setup, but this is what you were talking about right?

http://www.hiren.info/articles/recovery/hard-drive-data-recovery-using-freeware-testdisk

 

What should I do with it, if it is?

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

Boot it up and use the partition software to fix your issue.

 

I'm still working on figure out the right setup, but this is what you were talking about right?

http://www.hiren.info/articles/recovery/hard-drive-data-recovery-using-freeware-testdisk

 

What should I do with it, if it is?

[NinetyFour]

Boot it up and use the partition software to fix your issue.

I have done this and ran through all the viable possibilities I could think of. Every partition and formatting technique I have tried has led either to windows error 0x80070057 or to the installation CD saying that the bios does not support the hardware even though on every setting I know it does.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

These are power user tools, not your average junk tool that windows has in it.

 

I have done this and ran through all the viable possibilities I could think of. Every partition and formatting technique I have tried has led either to windows error 0x80070057 or to the installation CD saying that the bios does not support the hardware even though on every setting I know it does.

[NinetyFour]

These are power user tools, not your average junk tool that windows has in it.

I understand that and chose it for that reason, but i'm no closer to fixing my issue and am just considering throwing in the towel and getting an ssd. I really need to figure out how to fix this though.