| Windows 7: Accidentally marked drive C as active |
23 Aug 2009
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Accidentally marked drive C as active I started O&O partition manager and accidentally pressed active on partition C and now I cannot boot windows...
I am using build 7600 x86 I loaded up the windows 7 iso on a usb memory and booted from it and chose repair, it said it found things to repair, i pressed ok, it rebooted but it did not help, now I chose from the repair menu to automatically search and fix, it said startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically and it want to send information about this problem, I wonder how it figured on doing that...
oh yes i started the repair again and pressed command promt and followed this guide: MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot Record and the first thing it said about D being the "DVD" was wrong in my case, it was E and from then on the guide was excally like in my case and I completed the guide, rebooted and still the same message "BOOTMGR is missing Press ctrl alt del to restart"
So what can i do to fix this? without needing to reinstall windows
Last edited by premier69; 23 Aug 2009 at 01:29 PM..
Reason: added more.
| My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number White Box OS Windows 7 RTM x64 CPU Core 2 Quad 2.6GHz Motherboard Gigabyte Ga-x48-ds5 Memory 4GB Ram Graphics Card Asus nvidia 260 Sound Card Built in, Using Optical Out with Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Monitor(s) Displays Acer T230H & Samsung LCD TV FULL HD "LE46B530" Screen Resolution 1920x1080 + 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech Dinovo edge Mouse wireless laser mouse PSU 750 watt Case Antec P180 Cooling Default Intel stock Hard Drives 8 of them, about 6.5TB Internet Speed 15mbit Cable Other Info Primary monitor is multitouch (yay) |
23 Aug 2009
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#2 | | Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) Mumbai, India |
If you can reach the Recovery environment thru usb, open command prompt and type: C: (Press Enter) diskmgmt.msc (Press Enter)
See if you can open disk management, if yes, revert the changes that you made. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN OS Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) CPU Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Motherboard Samsung Electronics Memory 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1) Graphics Card AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display Screen Resolution 1366x768 Hard Drives 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD Internet Speed sucks Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Browser Google Chrome (Sync enabled) |
23 Aug 2009
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i got to the stage where i entered diskmgmt.msc and it said that it was not recognized as an internal or external command bla bla... | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number White Box OS Windows 7 RTM x64 CPU Core 2 Quad 2.6GHz Motherboard Gigabyte Ga-x48-ds5 Memory 4GB Ram Graphics Card Asus nvidia 260 Sound Card Built in, Using Optical Out with Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Monitor(s) Displays Acer T230H & Samsung LCD TV FULL HD "LE46B530" Screen Resolution 1920x1080 + 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech Dinovo edge Mouse wireless laser mouse PSU 750 watt Case Antec P180 Cooling Default Intel stock Hard Drives 8 of them, about 6.5TB Internet Speed 15mbit Cable Other Info Primary monitor is multitouch (yay) |
23 Aug 2009
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#4 | | Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) Mumbai, India |
when you open command prompt, by default, it will stay on X: You'll need to come to C drive and then type diskmgmt.msc | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN OS Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) CPU Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Motherboard Samsung Electronics Memory 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1) Graphics Card AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display Screen Resolution 1366x768 Hard Drives 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD Internet Speed sucks Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Browser Google Chrome (Sync enabled) |
23 Aug 2009
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i typed dir and it seems to be my C: drive, does how do i enter the 100mb partition? where i can type diskmgmt.msc? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number White Box OS Windows 7 RTM x64 CPU Core 2 Quad 2.6GHz Motherboard Gigabyte Ga-x48-ds5 Memory 4GB Ram Graphics Card Asus nvidia 260 Sound Card Built in, Using Optical Out with Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Monitor(s) Displays Acer T230H & Samsung LCD TV FULL HD "LE46B530" Screen Resolution 1920x1080 + 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech Dinovo edge Mouse wireless laser mouse PSU 750 watt Case Antec P180 Cooling Default Intel stock Hard Drives 8 of them, about 6.5TB Internet Speed 15mbit Cable Other Info Primary monitor is multitouch (yay) |
23 Aug 2009
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#6 | | Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) Mumbai, India |
Or, on the C:\ prompt,
type the following commands and press enter.
diskpart
list volume
select partition C
inactive
Reboot your computer. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN OS Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) CPU Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Motherboard Samsung Electronics Memory 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1) Graphics Card AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display Screen Resolution 1366x768 Hard Drives 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD Internet Speed sucks Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Browser Google Chrome (Sync enabled) |
23 Aug 2009
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i typed in diskpart and this is what it says:
actually I´m gonna include a picture, that should explain more clearly. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number White Box OS Windows 7 RTM x64 CPU Core 2 Quad 2.6GHz Motherboard Gigabyte Ga-x48-ds5 Memory 4GB Ram Graphics Card Asus nvidia 260 Sound Card Built in, Using Optical Out with Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Monitor(s) Displays Acer T230H & Samsung LCD TV FULL HD "LE46B530" Screen Resolution 1920x1080 + 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech Dinovo edge Mouse wireless laser mouse PSU 750 watt Case Antec P180 Cooling Default Intel stock Hard Drives 8 of them, about 6.5TB Internet Speed 15mbit Cable Other Info Primary monitor is multitouch (yay) |
23 Aug 2009
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#8 | | Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) Mumbai, India |
now type select partition X (where x is the partition you marked active)
then type inactive Restart your pc. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN OS Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) CPU Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Motherboard Samsung Electronics Memory 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1) Graphics Card AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display Screen Resolution 1366x768 Hard Drives 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD Internet Speed sucks Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Browser Google Chrome (Sync enabled) |
23 Aug 2009
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yeah i did that, then rebooted and it booted direcly from the usb memory, i disconnected it and now there wasn´t even a bootmgr error anymore, thanks anyway, I screwed the pooch on this one, Reinstall... | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number White Box OS Windows 7 RTM x64 CPU Core 2 Quad 2.6GHz Motherboard Gigabyte Ga-x48-ds5 Memory 4GB Ram Graphics Card Asus nvidia 260 Sound Card Built in, Using Optical Out with Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Monitor(s) Displays Acer T230H & Samsung LCD TV FULL HD "LE46B530" Screen Resolution 1920x1080 + 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech Dinovo edge Mouse wireless laser mouse PSU 750 watt Case Antec P180 Cooling Default Intel stock Hard Drives 8 of them, about 6.5TB Internet Speed 15mbit Cable Other Info Primary monitor is multitouch (yay) |
23 Aug 2009
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#10 | | Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) Mumbai, India |
sad to hear that. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Samsung NP530U4B-S02IN OS Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) CPU Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2467M (1.60GHz, 3MB L3 Cache) Motherboard Samsung Electronics Memory 6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (on BD 4GB + 2GB x 1) Graphics Card AMD Radeon™ HD7550M 1GB DDR3 (Ext. Graphic) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays 35.56cm (14.0) SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display Screen Resolution 1366x768 Hard Drives 1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5400RPM) with ExpressCache 16GB SSD Internet Speed sucks Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Browser Google Chrome (Sync enabled) Accidentally marked drive C as active problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:35 AM. | |