Guest thamastert Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 I tried to root my Desire. I followed the description from here Rooting Guide from this board, made a goldcard and did step1. i had an error here (something like 42 custom id check failed). after i tried step2 it couldn't find my phone. I tried it several times and restarted my phone, but it didnt work. after that i decided to restart windows. it showed me the bootscreen and changed to a black screen.. from here i couldnt start up windows. i can only see a cursor flashing on the top left corner. i cant press f8 to change start up option or do anything else. this happened on my netbook and a second time on another notebook. same here. are there any driver problems? did i something wrong when i made my goldcard? i choose the physical driver, not the logical. maybe i did something wrong here? please help me out of here because i dont have any working pc now... how can i rescue my pc and root the desire..?
Guest kroogar Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 how can i rescue my pc and root the desire..? Dunno about the pc - can you boot it in safe mode? If not then I really have no idea... Reg. rooting: I had a similar problem. Thought step 1 went fine (from my Win7 x64 machine) but step 2 insisted it couldn't find the phone. Did some research and came across this guide. I know it's Linux but don't let that scare you. Just d/l the image, burn it, boot it and follow the guide. Note that when actually selecting something from the recovery menu you have to press the optical trackball (guide doesn't say). Sorry about your pc... :(
Guest thamastert Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 thx for answering. about the pc: no i can't press f8 (can press but nothing happens) so i cant choose the safe mode or anzthing else... about the desire: will try it when i can boot my pc again :(
Guest kroogar Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 (edited) Hmm... really strange with the pc... can you boot from a CD? I really doubt that it has anything to do with the rooting attempt (tho it does seem strange). But if you don't get anything from your bios I'd probably say you're up a certain creek w/o a certain instrument... Edited June 4, 2010 by kroogar
Guest persko Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 I tried to root my Desire. I followed the description from here Rooting Guide from this board, made a goldcard and did step1. i had an error here (something like 42 custom id check failed). after i tried step2 it couldn't find my phone. I tried it several times and restarted my phone, but it didnt work. after that i decided to restart windows. it showed me the bootscreen and changed to a black screen.. from here i couldnt start up windows. i can only see a cursor flashing on the top left corner. i cant press f8 to change start up option or do anything else. this happened on my netbook and a second time on another notebook. same here. are there any driver problems? did i something wrong when i made my goldcard? i choose the physical driver, not the logical. maybe i did something wrong here? please help me out of here because i dont have any working pc now... how can i rescue my pc and root the desire..? Sounds like you have written your golddisk image to your harddisk, and not to the sd card. Per
Guest thamastert Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 Hmm... really strange with the pc... can you boot from a CD? I really doubt that it has anything to do with the rooting attempt (tho it does seem strange). But if you don't get anything from your bios I'd probably say you're up a certain creek w/o a certain instrument... it happened on two machines after trying to root... so it has to do with it...
Guest thamastert Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 (edited) Sounds like you have written your golddisk image to your harddisk, and not to the sd card. Per that was my guess, too. cus the the symptoms are like i have killed my hdd. so if so i could do everything till reboot and then primary it crashed - this sounds like i did it mentioned above, isn't it..? but i am sure i checked the physical, not logical drive. i am sure for 100%. how could it be if so..? and how can i rescue...? Edited June 4, 2010 by thamastert
Guest battletank Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 that was my guess, too. cus the the symptoms are like i have killed my hdd. so if so i could do everything till reboot and then primary it crashed - this sounds like i did it mentioned above, isn't it..? but i am sure i checked the physical, not logical drive. i am sure for 100%. how could it be if so..? and how can i rescue...? Picking the physical drive isn't going to stop this problem; "Under physical disk, select Removable Disk (your microSD card)" - it sounds like you've written to your hard disk, not your removable disk. I suspect the only recovery available would be to low-level format your hard disk and reinstall everything... :(
Guest kayceejayh Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 Simple... don't reboot your Computer with the phone plugged in! The computer is tying to boot off your phone.. which it can't. Unplug the phone and restart the machine.
Guest thamastert Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 Picking the physical drive isn't going to stop this problem; "Under physical disk, select Removable Disk (your microSD card)" - it sounds like you've written to your hard disk, not your removable disk. I suspect the only recovery available would be to low-level format your hard disk and reinstall everything... :( yeah of course i selected the removable disk... thats the strange thing..
Guest thamastert Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 Simple... don't reboot your Computer with the phone plugged in! The computer is tying to boot off your phone.. which it can't. Unplug the phone and restart the machine. i tried it with plugged and without phone. ->same result... ;((( s***......
Guest DarrenMowat Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 If you've written the goldcard image to the hard disk then you might be able to just reinstall the windows 7 boot loader. Boot off the windows 7 install disk and on the screen after the language screen choose "Repair your computer". On the next screen choose "Recovery Console" and run these two commands separately: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot Then reboot, if your lucky this will work, otherwise you'll probably need to reinstall windows.
Guest tinyk Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 Got the exact same thing, turn computer on this morning and it comes up cannot find disk :( Guess Im going to have to try some options, most are difficult as it does not have a cd rom so that rules out some of the choices :( Will post if I find a simple solution
Guest thamastert Posted June 8, 2010 Report Posted June 8, 2010 If you've written the goldcard image to the hard disk then you might be able to just reinstall the windows 7 boot loader. Boot off the windows 7 install disk and on the screen after the language screen choose "Repair your computer". On the next screen choose "Recovery Console" and run these two commands separately: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot Then reboot, if your lucky this will work, otherwise you'll probably need to reinstall windows. that exactly fixed it! the two commands made my netbook start and also the other notebook. i was so sure i didnt do this noob thing to kill the mbr of the hdd. ...strange... i will do it again and see what will happen. but for the moment u made my day! - The suicide Desire Rooter -
Guest Need_A_Username Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 If you've written the goldcard image to the hard disk then you might be able to just reinstall the windows 7 boot loader. Boot off the windows 7 install disk and on the screen after the language screen choose "Repair your computer". On the next screen choose "Recovery Console" and run these two commands separately: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot Then reboot, if your lucky this will work, otherwise you'll probably need to reinstall windows. Those are indeed the two best commands you can use in windows xD
Guest Emperork Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 i had this problem weeks ago. Literally nothing I could do about it, and I consider myself a respectable PC nerd. Had to remove the HDD, put it into a caddy and back up what I wanted, then reinstalled a more up to date version of win 7.
Guest Emperork Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 i tried everything, startup repair, the works. it just won't happen. do what i did and remove the HDD and back up. Rooting my desire purely for the sake of apps2sd, (which doesn't really even work properly) was the worst decision I made. I intend to unroot for Froyo and then install a clean rom. How I pray Froyo comes out soon.
Guest fatwolf Posted June 9, 2010 Report Posted June 9, 2010 Just an FYI. If you use a SATA hard drive and you have a newer mainboard that supports hotplug/hotswap your primary HDD will appear as a removable drive. You should only have hotswap enabled on ports you plan to hotswap with but some have it enabled on all ports so all drives come up as removable Its why you can also use safely remove drive on your primary drive. Because windows 7 now stores its primary boot information in a small partition in the 1st 100mb of your drive writing the goldcard image to the drive would have overwritten your mbr and stopped the system from seeing the boot area. This is why the fixmbr and fixboot commands will work as they are designed to recover the MBR and the boot partition in the 1st 100mb. 1st they will fix the master boot record of your drive which is the 1st 512bytes of the disk(what you would have overwritten with the goldcard) and then it will recover the partition itself. The same method can also be used to recover XP or Vista. However only Vista would have shown a removable drive for a primary drive XP does not really know about removable drives that much.
Guest thamastert Posted June 10, 2010 Report Posted June 10, 2010 (edited) Just an FYI. If you use a SATA hard drive and you have a newer mainboard that supports hotplug/hotswap your primary HDD will appear as a removable drive. You should only have hotswap enabled on ports you plan to hotswap with but some have it enabled on all ports so all drives come up as removable Its why you can also use safely remove drive on your primary drive. Because windows 7 now stores its primary boot information in a small partition in the 1st 100mb of your drive writing the goldcard image to the drive would have overwritten your mbr and stopped the system from seeing the boot area. This is why the fixmbr and fixboot commands will work as they are designed to recover the MBR and the boot partition in the 1st 100mb. 1st they will fix the master boot record of your drive which is the 1st 512bytes of the disk(what you would have overwritten with the goldcard) and then it will recover the partition itself. The same method can also be used to recover XP or Vista. However only Vista would have shown a removable drive for a primary drive XP does not really know about removable drives that much. yes. i heard from others having exactly the same problem. so i suggest don't rooting ur desire at midnight after work :) i thought that i have some computer skills, too. but this noobish mistake let me doubting about that :) finally i rooted my desire and installed froyo. it works fine and i think my phone got some boost as well.. thanks again for help Edited June 10, 2010 by thamastert
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