Reconfigured D drive on hard drive, now I cant boot


  1. fragged42
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    windows 7 32bit
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    Reconfigured D drive on hard drive, now I cant boot


    Reconfigured D drive afterward I couldn't boot my computer. Tried various methods to recover. I run Windows 7 home premium 32bit. As for why I reconfigured the drive, there was a virus on the drive that my antivirus couldnt remove, and I knew reconfiguring a drive would destroy any file on the drive... and since the drive was labeled RECOVERY I assumed that the drive was backup only and was not needed to boot the computer. Yes I feel very stupid. No, I wont do it ever again. So help please? I have an upgrade disk for windows 7 and I tried everything that I could think of, startup recovery didn't detect anything. soooooo.... Any ideas?
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  3. Golden
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    Hi,

    By "reconfigure", do you mean format? It sounds as if you reformatted the entire disk, including the Recovery partition? Is that correct?

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  4. AddRAM
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    Fooling with your D partition should have had no affect on C:
    Have you tried a startup repair with your windows 7 disc up to 3 times ?
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  6. fragged42
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    First yes I reformatted the D drive, thank you.

    I tried to do startup repair, but I kept getting a error message to the effect of 0x008000

    Don't know what Im supposed to do
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  7. bigmck
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
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    fragged42 said:
    First yes I reformatted the D drive, thank you.

    I tried to do startup repair, but I kept getting a error message to the effect of 0x008000

    Don't know what Im supposed to do
    Did you format C: and D:? If you only formatted D:, then there should be no problem in booting. It you formatted both of them, the only thing you can do to get your PC going is to install Win 7 again on your C: drive. Check out this tutorial. Clean Install Windows 7
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  8. gregrocker
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    Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot - Windows 7 Forums

    Make sure the 100mb System Reserved (preferred) or Win7 partition are marked Active or the 3 Startup Repairs will not know where to repair/rewrite the boot files.

    You may be still infected so check that first as Win7 won't repair sometimes when infected.

    Everything you need to try everything possible is in the link, including rescuiing your files to Clean Reinstall.
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  10. FuturDreamz
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    Windows 8 Pro (32-bit)
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    Are C: and D: separate disks, or are bot partitions on the same drive?
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