[RESOLVED] boot problems

hope i can explain this right
i am dual booting vista and 7 on 2 sata drives, this morning cranked up pc, it got to where it started to tell me to boot from cd hit enter just as usual, then it just stalled and wont move, the up and down arrows will not work, i have it set as 7 to boot as the default so it finally boots to 7, in 7 the keyboard arrows work fine.

went into msconfig and changed the boot order so vista would be default and rebooted, the screen came up saying files were messed up(not those same words) and to insert cd for repair the arrows wont work and startup normally is highlited so while i went for cd ir did slowly start up and now keyboard works but after several atempts i still cant select which operating sysyem i wont to use without going in to msconfig boot and changing the default any help will be appreciated

Try running Startup Repair:

Windows 7 Startup Repair

sparks thanks but should i run repair for 7 or vista both work fine after they boot up i just have to go into the boot order in msconfig to change default if i want it to boot it wont let me use the arrow keys in boot up to select which operating sytem to boot up

Run Win 7 Startup Repair, and it will take care of Vista too. Hopefully it will fix this problem.

For future reference, any time that you need to do anything to the boot files, always use the tools from the latest OS installed, and they will deal with any previous versions too.

thanks sparks

sparks, i need more help i cant boot to dvd when i get to boot screen it wont respond to keyboard to let me click on any key and just goes to the default


while the boot screen is up it does not respond it just starts the seconds count down and goes to the default

just to add i cant get into bios or anything during bootup tried diffrent keyboard same thing should i just reinstall 7

If you can't get into the BIOS setup, then you have a hardware problem. Windows problems would not cause that, since Windows is not even loaded yet. What type of keyboard are you using - PS/2 or USB?

have tried both they work fine after windows boots up it is just during boot manager that nothing works

just tried keyboard on other pc works fine during bootup

what else could it be? i thought maybe boot was corrupt and a reinstall of the 2nd os might recreate the boot files

finally fixed it, after a lot of googling i figured out my boot files must be messed up did a repair did not work finally formatted disc unhooked drive
from motherboard then reinstalled drive, reinstalled window 7 everything working fine now thanks for the replies