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Unable to back up or create system restore point

I am booting from the crucial SSD it is the 1st boot device. When I ran startup repair in the system recovery options ( for 3 times as per the sysnative tutorial) I still get BOOTMGR is missing. I have run CHKDSK on all disks as per the tuturial and all report no problems found except "unable to post event log 50".

I will now try to boot with only rhe SSD connected
 
OK. Leave all the other drives disconnected and boot to your Win 7 DVD and select repair my computer. Follow the steps in Method 2 in this Microsoft link. That should rebuild your boot configuration so the computer will know where your Windows installation is when it starts up.

Restart, remove the DVD, and see if you can get into Windows. Do a couple cold starts and shut downs to make sure it's working. If you get that far, then try reconnecting your other drives.
 
Hello Fred

I tried that yesterday and bootrec did complete successfully. But I still got BOOTMGR is missing message when I rebooted. So I installed a new spare SSD and did a clean install of windows. AHCI is now showing in the device manager. I just need to repartition the other drives & configure the storage. I had hoped for a SSD install tutorial on sysnative as there are many conflicting guides on line.

Thank you for your time & advice very much appreciated
Neil
 
You're welcome, Neil. That's really odd... Was Windows cloned from a disc drive to the SSD that was giving you a problem, or was it a fresh install? There isn't a whole lot you need to do when installing an SSD with Win 7. Windows should take care of sector alignment. Make sure you update the drive's firmware & turn off Windows defrag. In some cases you may need to manually load a driver during install, but that's all I can think of.
 
It was a fresh install. So I update the Firmware immediately. Windows defrag is automatically turned off in win7 for the SSD but still runs for other drives. My point about SSD tutorial is the issues concerning how to verify trim is enabled, do I move the page file, how to check AHCI controller driver is set to support Trim. Do I disable superfetch /prefetch/bootfetch? should I change location of temp files to other drive? How to redirect Picture / Music / Document files ?
 
robbo462003 said:
My point about SSD tutorial is the issues concerning how to verify trim is enabled, do I move the page file, how to check AHCI controller driver is set to support Trim. Do I disable superfetch /prefetch/bootfetch? should I change location of temp files to other drive? How to redirect Picture / Music / Document files ?
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It sounds more like you're looking for a Wiki article.
  • The page file should always be on the boot drive.
  • There's no reason to change the location of temp files
  • Trim is a Windows 7 command. If you want to make sure it's enabled, you can check it a few ways:
  • Open a command prompt as an administrator and use the Fsutil commands.
  • Type fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify and press enter
  • if DisableDeleteNotify = 0 then TRIM is enabled. If it's set to 1 it's disabled
If you need to turn TRIM ON
  • At the command prompt, type fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0 and press enter
  • (replacing the zero with a 1 would disable TRIM)

If you want to test TRIM to make sure it's working, there's a program you can run here

Superfetch, prefetch, etc. I think Windows 7 disables these if it detects an SSD drive. AFAIK, the thought process is that disabling these services eliminate extra writes to the drive, hopefully "prolonging the drive life". Not a big deal to me, but you can turn these services off if you want.

You can redirect Windows to change the location of your default Documents, etc. folders. I know you can change it in the registry but don't remember the keys or if Win 7 has a shortcut to make the change within the OS. You could start a new thread or Google it if you'd like.
 
Yes I should have looked for a Wiki article but Ive more confidence in sysnative,

Thanks again Fred for your help
 
You're welcome, Neil. Glad you're up and running again. I'm not even sure what's here for SSD tutorials. Staff tend to write articles over time about topics they know well. IMO, there's a lot of subjective info on the net where people are trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe in keeping it simple and letting Windows work the way it's designed to work, so use some of the tweaks with caution.
 

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