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CRITICAL: Bootldr missing, need to restore using only USB.
Hi all,
Mission-critical problem here that has my netbook unbootable (the machine I need when I travel on business).
There's a long and irrelevant reason for this happening, but the upshot is I had two Win7 partitions. Using the disk management control panel on the new Win7 partition I changed the Active/boot partition from the old partition, that I was about to delete, to the new partition that was running as I wanted. I rebooted and then got stuck with no bootldr. I thought I'd marked the new partition active/boot, but I guess it didn't take so I'm left with an ASUS paperweight until I can solve it.
Things went from bad to worse when I attempted a repair installation from the USB stick that my disk image was mounted on. This is a Netbook with no optical drive, so the only option was a USB installation. The only problem is that there's no repair option on this installer. It's install or nothing.
I've looked for hours online for a viable solution but everything is boiling down to "create a rescue CD"...SEE ABOVE...there is no optical drive in this machine; I *can* boot to a USB stick easily enough so that's the ONLY I can take.
What should be my next steps in getting this system bootable? My Win7 tech knowledge level on a scale of 1-10 is about a 5 or 6, tops.