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A buddy accidentally deleted his boot partition. questions?
Hello all :)
I am sitting here with a buddies DELL inspiron M5030. I am currently getting the "Windows failed to start" that lists "File:\boot\BDC" "status: 0xc000000F
What I don't have:
The original windows install/repair CD. It did not ship with the laptop, and he didn't make a copy. ( I know this cd would easily fix my problem )
I also only have a general idea as to the variety of the operating system: the owners tells me its windows 7 64bit but doesn't know the variety. Not sure if that matters)
What happened is
I guess while he and his friend were trying to install a "duel boot Linux Mint 13 partition" they ran into some issues with several small partitions which confused them during the install. Somehow this confusion led them to delete? format? or change the status of the most important partition on a windows machine. (they say they did not delete or format it, they said they accidently switched it to active)
The owner was having problems with slow operation before and is what led him to install a mint partition on my advice. Since I underestimated the difficulty of accomplishing the task I have volunteered to try and fix it.
questions: ( I am trying to find a fix that does not involve a 3gig download )
Are there any options short of downloading an ISO of windows 7?
can a recovery repair disk accomplish this task?
can one be downloaded?
I can boot into a Linux mint desktop from CD. Is it possible to change the status of the partition from mint?
I also have Microsoft VM 2007 x64 on my own laptop, is it possible to create a bootable instance of VM to make the changes? ( I have really only used it in networking class).. My laptop has windows 8 professional and not windows 7.
I also have a ISO of the debug/checked windows 7 on a dvd. I tried to get this to boot and had no luck though. Maybe I need a bootable ISO creator?
Thank you all for reading and hopefully helping me out :)