Screwed my install? Wont boot!

ussj4brolli · 12 Sep 2009

SIW2 said:

I am not familiar with your setup, but I know Partition Wizard.

The program is fine - it just did what you told it.

Before you deleted the 100mb partition , did it say Active&Boot next to it in the PW main window?

Suggest you boot the PW cd and make sure the partition you want the boot critical files on is marked Active ( it must be a Primary partition).

Then run startup repair from the 7 dvd 3 times.

Reinstalling the OS as we speak. i was not blaming the software itself, but 7. It seemed that it was using the boot files/manager/what have you that was left behind on the HDDs, and did not create a new one. And so when i told the program to delete it..we had some issues. lol

spydaz · 12 Sep 2009

Quikly Un hook the raid temporarly...
Then fully format your os drive.... if you have a spare drive....
then reconnect the raid drives and use them as your storage....

or use partion magic / or simular program to create the 100 mb fat32 partition....then using BCDEDIT to point to your ORIGINAL Installation of WIndows....

ussj4brolli · 12 Sep 2009

Tews said:

Im sure that there is a perfectly logical reason for this, which escapes me at the moment

.. Hopefully, someone will come along and explain it....

I didnt expect it to kill my OS install, because the HDDs had nothing to do with the OS anymore.

spydaz · 12 Sep 2009

use bcd edit to list the partition information....

You will need to boot up into a windows PE ENVRONMENT or RE Environment, Which can be made on another machine....

If you have unallocated disk space on the raid then you could quickly Re-Install windows on to the unallocated disk space and windows should RE-Create the SYSTEM hidden partion drive..... On the Window dVD the is also a BOOSECTOR COMMAND To REPLACE DELETED BOOT PARTITIONS...

BOOTSECT.EXE > WINDOWS DISK/BOOT <<<<<<< THIS WILL REPAIR IT!

Tews · 12 Sep 2009

spydaz said:

use bcd edit to list the partition information....

You will need to boot up into a windows PE ENVRONMENT or RE Environment, Which can be made on another machine....

If you have unallocated disk space on the raid then you could quickly Re-Install windows on to the unallocated disk space and windows should RE-Create the SYSTEM hidden partion drive..... On the Window dVD the is also a BOOSECTOR COMMAND To REPLACE DELETED BOOT PARTITIONS...

BOOTSECT.EXE > WINDOWS DISK/BOOT <<<<<<< THIS WILL REPAIR IT!

I think its too late for this option .... the OP is already reinstalling ...

SIW2 · 12 Sep 2009

Depending on how you have it set up - you may get the same problem again - in case you missed the edit to my last post:

Windows will always install the boot files on the first Active partition the installer comes across. The rest of the o/s installs on the partition you pointed at.

SIW2 · 12 Sep 2009

What is this command?

BOOTSECT.EXE > WINDOWS DISK/BOOT

Tews · 12 Sep 2009

SIW2 said:

What is this command?

BOOTSECT.EXE > WINDOWS DISK/BOOT

Obviously one neither the OP, or myself knew about!!

SIW2 · 12 Sep 2009

Not sure what he was getting at , bootsect.exe can be used to write the bootsector code only, or optionally the mbr code as well.

It won't , to my knowledge , replace/rebuild any of the boot critical files (bootmgr and the Boot folder containing bcd).

The syntax goes like this:

bootsect {/nt60|/nt52} {SYS|ALL|<DriveLetter>:} [/force] [/mbr]

ussj4brolli · 12 Sep 2009

reinstalled. Everything is fine now. My 1Tbs are now one partition, and the SSD is working flawlessly.
was freaking out because i thought i lost everything on my 1tb`s.
thanks everyone. Yeah had no idea about that command.
On a side note: Why was windows using that boot from the HDDs and not making one on the SSD? (now i dont have a pause before the boot screen

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