ok will try that tomorrow. But I am pretty sure that I marked as active in wizard. And I did it again in diskpart. In that regard the asterisk would stay up for a few minutes then disappear.
And what is with that empty 8 gb that is to the left of C? Maybe that is bad?
Thanks again.
Michael
It's a minor flaw we see sometimes in PW. It can likely be corrected installing the PW Home Version later.
What's important is that all of the steps given were covered, and there were a lot so double-check you completed each. You must have a Primary partition, which will always allow Active flag, then 3 separate Startup Repairs during which it writes the System boot files to C and starts it up.
If this fails we can always construct a fresh Win7 boot partition, and the XP HD will still boot Win7 when set first to boot in BIOS, albeit with the problems you originally reported.
OK. Will check all tomorrow. But I know for a fact that the Win partition is primary because it says so in diskpart. But the active flag kept shutting off.
Thanks for all your advice Greg.
Michael
Go by what the Partition Wizard boot disk says on the partition labels.
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Greg:
Hello again.
Went into PW. 0nly the one drive now. It is set to primary and it is set to active. It is as far to the left as it can go.
When you start it says the thing about hit a key if you want to beoot from cd. You let that that go by and you get nothing but a blinking cursor. Everything halts right there.
In the alternative if you do boot off the cd it takes you to the repair console thing. Once there you ask it to do a repair and the answer always comes back that nothing is wrong.
Then you reboot and everything happens all over again.
In short, there is no "repair" that you see happening.
Thanks.
Michael
Run three separate Startup Repairs with reboots no matter what it reports. We are using Startup Repair here to write boot files which requires sequencing it outside its normal usage.
If that fails open the installer's Command Line to run each of these followed by enter.
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixmbr
bootsect /rebuildbcd
If that fails boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD, confirm WIn7 partition is Active or Modify>Set to Active, then run Partition Wizard Rebuild MBR Video Help.
On each "reboot" do you leave the cd in, or pulli out?
Just don't reboot it, but you can leave it in the drive unless it's booting itself somehow.
Greg:
I did it the way you said. On each boot you get the question about press a key to boot from cd. if you ignore that and let it sit the same message remains on the screen. There's just a blinking cursor. So I guess I have to try that fix stuff.
Thanks.
Michael
Greg: Did the PW thing this time. Still shows as active but coming back out everything stays the same.
Brother.
Thanks.
Michael
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