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Win7 MBR Issues After New Deleted Dual Boot
I am in need of your expertise =)
Here is the scenario:
I have 3 SATA2 platter drives and have my Win7 Pro installed on my Samsung Spinpoint 740GB drive.
My wife gave me an OCZ 120GB Vertex2 SSD for Christmas so I decided to dual boot Win7 on that drive to make sure it worked OK etc prior to wiping my Spinpoint C: drive.
The OCZ became my X: drive and I would get the option to boot from either drive at start up.
Last night, after about a month of running off the OCZ without an issue I decided to wipe my C: drive via Acronis and utilize the SSD solely.
Now I figured Win7 would see that there was no OS on the C: drive anymore and tag my X: drive as C: and boot up, wrong! =(
Upon format of the Spinpoint C: upon boot up via Acronis I get this once rebooting:
MBR Error 1 Insert Floppy (I hit enter and then I get)
MBR Error 2 Insert Floppy (I hit enter and this repeats)
So I took my Win7 DVD and booted up via that and chose Repair start up and that had major issues as it still saw my Spinpoint as C: and my SSD as X:
I removed the Spinpoint and it chose to make my 2TB storage drive as C: LOL!?
So I then removed the power to my entire array of platter SATA drives so that just my SSD and DVD drive were connected.
Upon boot up via the DVD my SSD is now C: BUT when I try to repair it I do not get the drive listed in the window as an OS drive to choose
(Like here):
and the DVD ends up creating a 33mb partition called X: and installs the Win7 repair files on that partition instead.
So when I try to boot up after trying bootsec /FixMBR & /FixBoot (which initially tells me it is successful prior to reboot) I get::
"Reboot & Select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key"
Any ideas on how to get the SSD to boot up without having to wipe it and reinstall?
Cheers in advance everyone!