Hi,
I have had this happen a few times in the past but was usually able to get around it by resetting BIOS settings, but this time it's not working. Here's the scenario:
Dell Latitude Laptops (various models) encrypted with SGE 6.1. User did *something* to his E6520 and now it does not boot properly. Sophos PBA messages come up as if it's about to give the POA screen, but instead just freezes, usually giving an artifact laced screen. I figure something happened to the MBR. I go into BIOS and change the SATA Operation from it's usual "RAID On" to AHCI. Same result. I swap it back, same result again. OK, Load up my 6.1 boot disc to get into WinPE. Decrypt the drive using C/R and attempt the bootrec/rebuild bcd - no installations are found. OK - bcdedit shows the default partition on the D: when it should be on the C: - change it to C, bootrec now finds the installation and I add it to the config. Reboot - no dice. I repeat the process to get into WinPE, this time trying the Repair MBR in BE_Restore, again, no good. I get desperate and try different combinations of tools to tell it how to boot the OS.
So by now I've probably messed something up, but my data is sitll in tact. I really don't want to have to rebuild the computer from scratch. I have backups of the data, but rebuilding the laptop can take a full day or two. Does anyone have any suggestions on fixing the MBR or Bootsector or whatever is causing boot to fail? Thanks in advance.
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