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Windows 7 Fails to start MBR failure
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I recently had a dual boot windows 7 system. I had one install on my 1tb drive and 1 install on my 500gb drive. The dual installs were because I had a load of hardware failures and by the time I got to sorting that out I was left with 2 installs.
The first install (not used) occurred on the 1tb drive however my currently used install is on the 500Gb. I have recently decided to get rid of the other install completely to which I understood the only solution (right or wrong) was to get rid of the partition without leaving a lot of files kicking around. I did this, foolishly, and I obviously deleted the MBR on the 1TB drive when I got rid of the partition. Failure I get now is NTDLR is missing.
On restart I was hoping that I could recreate the MBR on the 500GB drive (therefore directly booting to the valid install) when it restarted however in attempting to do this (using the Win 7 CD) it cannot locate any OS available to assign the MBR to.
Are there any easy solutions to this before I spend the next week trying to create a boot to this drive and then formatting it out of frustration :)
Thanks very much guys