aswrvrt.sys problem - essexboy to the rescue (please!)

[werdsmyth]

Oh dear. Here's what I got:

The type of the file system is NTFS.
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt.
Reading second NTFS boot sector instead.
All NTFS boot sectors are unreadable or corrupt. Cannot continue.

I'm guessing that's not good...

[essexboy]

I am afraid not.  We can try and recover the data that you need using a PE USB drive but then you would need to reformat 

[essexboy]

I have just thought there is a possibility we can repair the boot sector

At the command prompt type the following command

Bootrec.exe /FixBoot

Allow it to complete and try a reboot ..  There are another one or two commands we could try after this

[werdsmyth]

More than happy to give it a go if you're happy to give me options.

(although the whole system did crash...so having to restart...again.)

[werdsmyth]

"The operation completed successfully"

Do I chance a restart?

[essexboy]

Yes please ..  I will prepare the other commands if we need them

[werdsmyth]

On standard reboot I'm as far as the "Starting Windows" screen...but all I'm looking at is a pretty Windows logo fluttering in the digital breeze.

That's as far as I got before. 

[essexboy]

Kind of progress

OK could you now from the command prompt run a fresh FRST scan so that I can look at the current state

[werdsmyth]

This'll be a hoot...getting to command prompts so far has been...challenging...to say the least.

Do you recommend I try to reach a command prompt by hitting F8 on boot or by going via the Win 7 boot disc?

[essexboy]

Use the boot disc that should be quicker

[werdsmyth]

Still trying to reach a command prompt.

Boot disc is currently searching for Windows installations...and has been doing so for about 10min.

[essexboy]

OK when you get to the command prompt enter the following commands pressing enter after each.  This will rebuild the boot data to default and should enable you to then run FRST

bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd

[werdsmyth]

I've made it to a Windows load! Don't ask me how (hadn't got round to entering all those commands from your previous post) but I'm a long way further than I've been for a while.

Admittedly I'm still looking at a predominantly black screen at this precise moment...but I can see Core Temp has loaded, which only loads on Windows startup.

So...assuming I get to a point where I can actually access my drives in a Windows environment...and aside from frantically copying all the files I want to keep to other drives...would you recommend me doing anything else?

Turning off Avast maybe? Even uninstalling it?

[werdsmyth]

Spoke to soon. I got to a desktop...starting copying files...and it froze.

Had no choice but to restart and now I'm back to the hanging loading screen. Basically back to square 1.

[essexboy]

Sounds very much like a hard drive problem of some sort or maybe a temperature related problem

Could you run Chkdsk c: /r again from the command prompt and let me know if it sees the drive and boot sector