Partition table lost after Hibernate

Bare Foot Kid said:

You were trying to do a startup repair to a system with 2 active partitions, active is the flag that tells the repair procedure where to create the "new" boot files and that caused the confusion.

Gotya. Thanks for all the help. This saved me a reformat

The instructions were confusing as to which partition on Disk0 to mark Active because DISKPART was giving you bad readouts from what you reported.

At this point, you should be asked to Detail Partition on each Disk0 partition so we could verify it intact and whether it is marked Active:



Once it's confirmed that 100mb or Win7 partition is marked Active, then run the Repairs with all other HD's unplugged - unless you want to detail each of the other HD's partitions to see if they are incorrectly marked Active.

Bare Foot Kid said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

You were trying to do a startup repair to a system with 2 active partitions, active is the flag that tells the repair procedure where to create the "new" boot files and that caused the confusion.

You are welcome; this is why we ask for a snip of disk management whenever possible, saves the confusion we (you and I) had.

Well mate, if I could boot into Windows to get you the drivemap, then we both would have saved a lot of time!

gregrocker said:

The instructions were confusing as to which partition on Disk0 to mark Active because DISKPART was giving you bad readouts from what you reported.

At this point, you should be asked to Detail Partition on each Disk0 partition so we could verify it intact and whether it is marked Active:



Once it's confirmed that 100mb or Win7 partition is marked Active, then run the Repairs with all other HD's unplugged - unless you want to detail each of the other HD's partitions to see if they are incorrectly marked Active.

Just checked (via gregrocker) and only the system (100MB) partition is marked active. Job well done guys. And now I know how to fix this in the future should it pop up.

Bare Foot Kid said:

Greg just listed the other way to figure it out above but few understand all that and I decided to forgo that to see if the way we did it would yield results then that was the next order of business.

Another way is to ask for a camera snap of booted Partition Wizard drive map. Most will reply with it. PW is easier to read and use than Diskpart since its a picture.

gregrocker said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

Greg just listed the other way to figure it out above but few understand all that and I decided to forgo that to see if the way we did it would yield results then that was the next order of business.

Another way is to ask for a camera snap of booted Partition Wizard drive map. Most will reply with it. PW is easier to read and use than Diskpart since its a picture.

I don't know if that would have solved things. I ran several partition manager apps off of LiveCDs and none of them even showed the HD that actually had Windows on them. Strangely enough, only the Win 7 install DVD recognized that there were 2 HDs and showed me the partitions in each.

I tried, PW, Gparted, and ran a couple of tools off of Hiren's. Only Win 7 showed what was really going on. Strange no? I did type out the drivemap in my first post that Win 7 showed me. But I guess that detail was not enough to figure out exactly what the specific issue was.

PS: It's so much nicer to be able to discuss this issue after it's been solved rather than before when I was freaking out!