Help with repairing windows!


  1. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #1

    Help with repairing windows!


    Well, i decided to Dual boot Hackintosh (iDeneb) and Windows 7 on my HP laptop. I got OS X up and running and i can't seem to repair my Windows 7. The installation disk can't find and fix the problem automatically, so i went to Command line prompt and when i type it Bootrec.exe/scanOS is says that it can't find any installed windows on the disks. I am 100% sure i did not over write my windows partition with the OS X and honestly, i have no idea how to get Windows running again without having to install from scratch. Help?
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  2. Posts : 617
    Windows 7 64Bit Ultimate Edition SP1
       #2

    I do not know if this shall be off much help, when i have had dual boot problems, i have used a program called "EasyBCD" which has helped me repair my Windows 7 Bootrec.

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  3. Posts : 6,243
    win 7 ultimate32bit, Win8.1pro wmc 32bit
       #3

    Hi Dabrenn, Welcome to the forums , have a look at this excellent tutorial Repair Install and this Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu they may be of some use to you :)
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  4. Posts : 16,154
    7 X64
       #4

    Hard to tell exactly what you did during install, but you could try this: ( press enter after each command )

    Boot the 7 recovery cd.

    Go to command prompt, type:

    Diskpart

    lis vol

    find the letter it gives for your windows 7 partition - you can tell by the size. ( I am using ? below - replace it with the letter diskpart gave you for your win 7 partition )

    sel vol ?:

    act

    exi

    bcdboot ?:\windows /s ?:

    bootsect /nt60 ?: /mbr
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    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
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    Last edited by Layback Bear; 27 Mar 2011 at 15:18. Reason: added a line.
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  6. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    SIW2 said:
    Hard to tell exactly what you did during install, but you could try this: ( press enter after each command )

    Boot the 7 recovery cd.

    Go to command prompt, type:

    Diskpart

    lis vol

    find the letter it gives for your windows 7 partition - you can tell by the size. ( I am using ? below - replace it with the letter diskpart gave you for your win 7 partition )

    sel vol ?:

    act

    exi

    bcdboot ?:\windows /s ?:

    bootsect /nt60 ?: /mbr
    It can only find 1 partition, and that partition only has 3000 MB on it. If i try to reinstall Windows completely, it can't find any avaliable disks to install it on. When i go to disk utility on the Hackintosh Install, it can find the 60 gb partition i made for it, and the 400 something gb partition i have for windows. Why can't the windows find them?
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