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Arc said:

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250 GB is the SSD, right? And windows is installed on it?

There should be a (hidden) 100 MB system Reserved partition, but that is missing there. The boot files are generally stored in that 100 MB partition.

There are other discs with active partitions. So the chance of misplacing the boot files are always there.

Power the computer off. Remove the electrical cables. Open the computer. Unplug the SATA cables from the other discs than the SSD. Now Boot back to Partition wizard. Only the SSD will be shown.

Then rebuild MBR. How to Rebuild MBR with partition manager - Partition Wizard Rebuild MBR Help
Do it for 3 times. Then try to boot to windows. Does it boot? Let us know.

EDIT: One minute ..... it is the fact that the SSD if fully occupied???

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It isn't fully occupied. I have no idea why the partition manager is saying that.
Will do what you said. And Will update.

Arc said:

Attachment 336991

250 GB is the SSD, right? And windows is installed on it?

There should be a (hidden) 100 MB system Reserved partition, but that is missing there. The boot files are generally stored in that 100 MB partition.

There are other discs with active partitions. So the chance of misplacing the boot files are always there.

Power the computer off. Remove the electrical cables. Open the computer. Unplug the SATA cables from the other discs than the SSD. Now Boot back to Partition wizard. Only the SSD will be shown.

Then rebuild MBR. How to Rebuild MBR with partition manager - Partition Wizard Rebuild MBR Help
Do it for 3 times. Then try to boot to windows. Does it boot? Let us know.

EDIT: One minute ..... it is the fact that the SSD if fully occupied???

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I did as requested. The SSD says it's fully occupied, so I can't rebuild the MBR for some reason....

Edit: mind you I can't even right click and explore files. Maybe the SSD is dead?

Well suggestions and requests are good, as I am truly stumped by it.
I'll format it later and see what happens.

I mean, I've never had any less than say 20GB spare. So it's quite possible it's simply dead.

Edit: if I do a reinstall using the sevenforums guide, using the D drive for users and such, will my past users files be removed?

Thanks.

Arc said:

Those will not be removed. Only the SSD will be removed.

Excellent. Tried installing W7 but it only saw my mechanical. Did a wipe of the SSD and created a new partition, will see how that goes. Currently doing a surface test. But I highly suspect it's on it's last legs. Ordered a new one anyway...

Thanks to everyone for the help, truly and greatly appreciated.

Update: apparently the partition I had for users and such last time - windows in audit mode thinks it's corrupted.
In order to get rid of this annoyance I'm going to grab all important files from it and shove it on a external disk/usb...
Got systemrescue on a bootable USB that can do this.

Unless anyone has any ideas?

FWIW I only put it in after windows 7 was installed, as for some reason it was loading boot from that disk rather than the SSD where windows is installed...