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I have a Dell Latitude E6530 laptop that somehow went south after a pulled a USB stick out of the computer while the BIOS screen was showing. All the data in all the partitions including Windows 10 PRO are intact. I can view all the files in the directories. The problem is the system just won't boot. This system originally had Windows 7 PRO that I updated to Windows 10 PRO. The system is UEFI capable and I have enabled the legacy roms in the BIOS and I have the Boot Sequence set to Legacy. the hard disk layout is NOT UEFI. It is MBR. When I try to boot all devices that are on the boot options menu (F12 when the BIOS screen appears), I have 2 Legacy Boot Devices: the Internal Hard Drive and the DVD/CD drive, but when I attempt to boot form either of them (LEGACY), I get the "No physical memory..." message. I can only boot devices that are UEFI such as the DVD/CD or an external USB bootable stick. I have run the memory test diagnostic on the computer 4 times. No problems. I have run chkdsk the computer a couple times. No problems. I have tried to rebuild the BCD, but with the latest ISO, I get access error for bootrec /fixboot. If I drop back to ISO 1703, bootrec /fixboot works, but I get "The requested system device cannot be found" when trying to execute bootrec /RebuildBcd. I feel like the whole problem is because I cannot boot legacy devices. To make matters worse I tried to reninstall Windows from the ISO DVD, but it won't let me do it. I just really want to be able to boot Windows hopefully without reinstalling or losing *anything* since all my data is there still, but until I can successfully "restore" Legacy Boot options working, I don't think I can. Any help appreciated.
Jordan Krim
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Run from Windows 10 ISO DVD/CD booted via UEFI doing F12 on BIOS screen options menu (because cannot boot this DVD/CD in Legacy Mode or get "No physical. .. message") in an administrator prompt command window:
x:\Sources: bcdedit /Enum All
The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
The requested system device cannot be found.
The other operating system eCS is called ecomStation. It is a follow on to IBM OS/2 when that was abandoned by IBM. It is physically on the same HD in a logical partition. I dual boot Windows and eCS from a Boot Manager called IBM Boot Manager installed on the HD in the MBR. This all used to work with MBR and not GPT and no UEFI. I have no idea why my BIOS is "broken".
(1) Hmm. I guess flashing the BIOS is equivalent to what SasaSamardzic did in here...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/get-error-no-physical-memory-is-available-at-the/3613763b-fc8c-48d1-bc21-f16d9b9c391a Get error: "No physical memory is available at the location required for the windows boot manager. The system cannot continue"
But have you added hardware that could be causing conflict with the boot process like he & ilounge (the OP) did? For instance, what is eCS? Is that something from Amazon? How does it boot?
(2) I think it is unwise to have two complete operating systems plugged in at once, though possibly it is riskier when in UEFI mode. But you have both modes active at once. Multiple System Reserved &/or EFI partitions can be a confusion at boot/reboot. At a Command Prompt, show...
DiskPart <<<Enter DiskPart
List Vol <<<List volumes & letters
List Disk <<<List the disks
Select Disk 0 <<<Focus on Disk 0
List Part <<<List its partitions
Select Disk 1
List Part
Select Disk 2 <<<Etc., for each internal disk
List Part
Exit <<<Leave DiskPart
BCDEdit /Enum All <<<Show the BCD
Is the eCS on an internal HDD or is it external?
Jordan, again, Installing to Legacy on a modern UEFI system is like buying a new car and disabling all of the safety and performance features.
I understand you have CSM/Legacy Boot enabled because you have Windows installed in Legacy Mode to MBR. You are also getting a Windows Boot Manager error which means that UEFI is somehow still enabled enough it can generate that error. For this reason ONLY I asked you if you can disable UEFI in your BIOS - some can, some can't and the most you can do is enable Legacy or CSM.
In any case the issue being with Windows Boot Manager is a hardware issue with the motherboard so you should contact the Motherboard manufacturer for help with the error. During the first year they must fix or replace it, after that they may still help or you can ask in their forums. You can also ask in the best hardware forums Tom's Hardware here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/
What I would do in this case is enable UEFI, boot the Windows installation media as a UEFI device, during Custom Install delete al partitions off the drive, choose the resulting Unallocated Space and click Next to auto-create and format the needed partitions to GPT and begin install - this makes it foolproof.
You can keep Legacy CSM enabled to boot your other operating system if it's on another hard drive, boot it from the one-time BIOS boot menu key for your motherboard.
Report back results for each step so I know what else to suggest.
Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.
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I am not sure what you mean by am I able to disable UEFI to test that. The BIOS is UEFI capable, but it is set to Legacy Boot because I don't think eCS (the other operating system) will boot if UEFI is enabled. But no I have obviously not tried it becuase the BIOS set UEFI mode only has 1 device: the DVD/CD. The hard disk will not show up in the boot options in the BIOS because it is MBR still. The system originally when working was MBR, Legacy Boot with Legacy ROMs installed. I really don't know why I have to convert to UEFI if it was working before. It seems to be a catch all to solve all problems rather than go to the root cause of the problem and solve that to return the system to working with MBR (Legacy Boot) as it was before.
Jordan Krim
