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Forget the previous post. This is a situation not generally seen.
You mark E as active and then run startup repair, ans see what happens.
Forget the previous post. This is a situation not generally seen.
You mark E as active and then run startup repair, ans see what happens.
presumably after the 3rd startup repair I reboot as normal and see what happens?
Oh OK.
Do I have to do anything to the first partition I marked as active?
Whenever you are marking another one as active, that previous one automatically will be unmarked. There can be only one active partition in a HDD.
Is it is listed as C, D, E, F, and G , strange, but disk 1 partition 1 should be the E .
Did you have dual boot setup anytime ?
When I had removed disk 1 and was just using Disk 0 it reported that Win7 was on the 76GB D: drive.
I have put disk 1 back in and marked partition 1 as active and run the startup repair three times now with a reboot after the first two.
Each time it says that it is looking at the Win7 on the 76GB partition (E:)
and each time it says that "Startup Repair could not detect a problem."
So then I rebooted from the disk and BSOD Process 1 initialization failed.
That should be the right situation. But the drive letters are all messed up there . Assuming it, I posted this one WIN7 won't boot. What should I do before trying a clean install? , but later confused seeing your response :)
As the situation is, my previous assumption was right, as I think. You mark the 100 mb partion of disk 0 active again, and try startup repair. it should work now.
To check the disk layout I went to the custom install options because this lays out all the partitions.
size free
Disk 0 Part 1 100.0 MB 70.0 MB System
Disk 0 Part 2 74.4 GB 5.5 GB Primary
Disk 1 Partition1: UserData 500.0 GB 466.0 GB System
Disk 1 Partition2: ProgFiles 500.0 GB 409.8 GB Primary
Disk 1 Partition3: Backup 397.3 GB 21.1 GB Primary
There are now 2 System partitions. I presume I need to change that?
and when I do a Dir of each drive I have found that
C: nothing found and no size info
D: 500GB free
E: 5GB free
F: 440GB free
G: 22GB free
So E: = Disk 0 part 2
D: = Disk 1 part 1
F: = Disk 1 part 2
G: = Disk 1 part 3
Early start at work tomorrow so I'm off for a while now.