The bootrec command will search for Windows installations not included in the BCD and then ask you if you'd like to add one or more to it. You should see one of the following messages at the command line.
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Today while browsing my PC froze, so I shut down using the button and then tried to reboot. It hung at the Windows logo screen, so I then rebooted and tried 'startup repair' options. It didnt seem to work and hung on that 'repairing' screen for two hours, then I headed back to google and found someone with similar probelm: And then tried again but used their method with command prompt. After the first and 2nd: bootrec.exe /fixmbr bootrec.exe /fixboot both succesful I then tried bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd But, it returned: 'total identified windows installations: 0' Then, realising I was in x: drive instead of c: I tried to change directories but when I typed c: it seemed to move there but I couldn't type anymore when it had, so I seem to be stuck in x: and have no idea whats going on now! EDIT: BACK IN BUSINESS!
Thanks for all your help. So the problem was that it seemed that startup recovery was not working properly and was looping after my PC froze then I rebooted but it would not boot, then after trying a bunch of things I freaked out and came here and posted a question that was actually not related to the problem. Anyway so the solution was following this tutorial here EXACTLY: Please note that I freaked out half way through and came here to ask for your help, meanwhile the above link fixed it - it was in startup recovery for 3 hours by the way! Thanks again. I work with Dells daily and you can typically see if the drive has failed via the on-board F12 diagnostic menu. I'm not sure if that works for this Dimension since it's older though. When you first see the Dell screen, hit F12 continually and see if it pulls up a boot mode menu with an option to select and run diagnostics.
The diagnostic tool will give you an error code on the hard drive if it has problems. Otherwise, you could only really tell with chkdsk errors or an error that the drive isn't detected at all.