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Windows Recovery disk shows operating system: Unknown on (Unknown)
I've been trolling the forums here for a while. Lots of great info but now I actually have an issue where I need some assistance.
When I was booting one day last week I got a nasty BSOD when Windows was trying to load. Then on the next reboot Windows 7 said it couldn't load and needed to do the recovery OS option from the Windows 7 repair on the CD. Well, before trying that I did a cold reboot and it got back into the OS fine so I didn't think much of it. Now, I noticed Ghost shows the C: drive status as "Unavailable" and it can't back it up anymore. It does give me an option to restore from one of my old backups. I'm thinking the MBR got hosed up somehow or something like that. But I'm skeptical to run an MBR repair since I have that 100MB partition on my SSD where my OS resides.
Ghost Shot>
This was about a week ago my Windows 7 started acting up right before the big patch Tuesday. I've been running it for over a year now and it's been solid. When I first set it up I installed it on my SSD (Intel 510 120GB) drive. One of the qualms I had with the install is Windows created a separate boot sector on the disk drive where it stored my boot files. This is known the the "system reserved" operating system files 100MB partition. Apparently the way to avoid this is to use a third party partition tool before doing the windows install. That way it will keep the Boot sector files on the same partition which is how I would of liked it for doing restores from Ghost 15,etc. Anyway, ghost was backing up my system C: drive before last week. I have yet to even try and use Ghost to see if it would successfully restore my OS but I've been using it to backup my C: drive anyways. Prior to last week it could backup my C: drive fine. I might try a Ghost restore point from a few weeks back before this happened but not sure yet.
Here's my partition setup in disk mgt.
And here's what the diskpart tool shows:
When I just tried the recovery options from the Windows 7 CD it says "operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) Local Disk." I guess I would need to load my SSD drivers to get this function to work correctly but not sure yet. I was reading the thread about restoring the MBR using the bootsect tool on the CD but I couldn't get the Recovery CD to see my OS. So, do you think I can just put the CD in the drive while Windows 7 is running and run this command > bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbrCode:DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 H GSP1RMCPRXF UDF DVD-ROM 3167 MB Healthy Volume 1 D GAMES NTFS Partition 459 GB Healthy Volume 2 E RAIDAPPLICA NTFS Partition 701 GB Healthy Volume 3 F BIOSLOADS FAT32 Partition 24 GB Healthy Volume 4 G BACKUPS NTFS Partition 117 GB Healthy Volume 5 System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 6 C NTFS Partition 111 GB Healthy Boot
I found this info in this thread>
MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot Record
Another strange thing I noticed was in my BIOS my Intel SSD now seems to show 3 volumes and I'm almost certain that was not this way before. It shows these >
A031 intel SSDSC2MH120A2
Intel Volume1
Intel Volume0
Not sure why? I'm pretty tired but I'd like to get my Ghost backing up again and Windows repair capable of seeing the OS. Any ideas what I should try? I'm tempted to do the MBR repair inside widows since it seems MBR related. I only have Windows 7 on this system and don't want to hose it up since it still works fine.
I don't recall loading anything that would of caused this issue and I'm not sure how it came about. I also just did a malware bytes scan and it came up clean. Thanks for any ideas/suggestions!