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BootMgr Missing after Easus Repart of C - No Repair Tool is Working
Hello all, I hope someone can help me.
This is a neighbor's desktop (now in my possession to fix): HP Premier Slimline 1TB EFI/GPT Partitioned like this:
C (OS-W764) 100GB
D (Hidden HP Recovery Part 2GB)
E (DVD ROM)
F Pictures 200GB
G Another... 200GB
H Misc.... 500GB
She wanted to take 100GB from G and add it to C. So I used Easus to do that. All went well moving it from G to F, but then when adding the unallocated space to C, instead of Easus intercepting the reboot, the Windows Recovery routine kicked in and said it needed to repair Windows... when it rebooted it went into a DOS routine searching for DHCP.... until it finally said there was no bootable disc.
I ran the repair tool a few times with the same result. Finally, I booted from a Paragon rescue CD to restore a backup from an external drive. The operation completed but when I rebooted I got "Missing Boot Manager" error.
And now when I try to boot from the retail W7 CD or a Windows repair CD, I get "this disc not compatible with your system". So I cannot get to a command prompt to try the fix mbr commands.
All the partitions and data are there... it's just the MBR messed up (or the GUID or whatever a GPT disk uses). Obviously Easus was not able to finish its job of resizing C.... Unless it's just the BM messed up. So ...
1. Does anyone know of a BOOTABLE CD tool that will repair the Boot Manager for GPT disks?
2. If I have to reformat the drive and start over, which BOOTABLE tool should I use? (I have never worked with a EFI/GUID/GPT disk.) Again, I cannot use a tool inside Windows... it has to be from a bootable CD/DVD.
Any help at all will be truly appreciated.