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Can't get drive with new partitions to boot
I have been working on this all day. Found some great advice on this forum, however I have been unable to find anything that solves my situation.
I have 2 hard drive bays that allow me to cold swap drives and one internally installed backup drive called "Backup". I have three swappable drives labelled "Main" and "Spare" and "Simple" on the outside. All 3 drives have partitions that are labelled "Main 7" and "System Reserved" in windows 7.
Yesterday my desktop was running on the "Spare" drive. I started getting disk error messages. I did a full backup of the "Main 7" partition onto my backup drive. I ran chkdsk on "Spare" but received error that it was out of space. Reboot and files gone. Decided not to repair since having operating system issues lately anyway. Rebooted on "Simple" with "Main" in second slot. Wound up reformatting partitions on "Main". Created 100MB "System Reserved" and the remaining space was allocated to "Main 7". Using Acronis, I restored full backup onto "Main 7" partition of "Main" and restored older system backup onto "System Reserved" partition of "Main" and made this partition active.
Reboot and error message requesting boot disc. Reboot with Windows 7 Pro CD and no system listed to repair. Went through the repair / reboot three times and no changes. I can boot off "Simple" and see "Main", I just can't boot off "Main" only.
I tried bootsect from command line and get access denied error. Not sure how to get "Main" to be bootable. In the past I have cloned drives with Acronis, but now that "Spare" is corrupted, I am trying to restore each partition. I have included a screen capture of Disk Management for clarity.
Thanks so much for any help you can provide!
Rob