If the steps in the tutorial did not work, make sure to pay close attention to the Note: in step 8 for more options to fix the issue. I have a feeling you will be unable to carry out those tasks as they require access to the drive, though...
I tried both steps, the MBR one and the bootrec one, they didn't work. When trying to boot now, it says under a Windows Boot Manager screen that windows failed to start. Then it says to insert the disc, restart, click repair computer, etc.
I tried rebuilding the BCD and typed all the other lines like bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot, bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr , etc. I even typed it for E: and it says the drive could not be opened or something.
My friend is suggesting How to fix your Windows MBR with an Ubuntu liveCD | ArsGeek
If you run that, check three times that you have the right drive that you are working with. You don't want to overwrite the backup drive in your system.
"Boot into your Ubuntu LiveCD on the offending machine. Once Ubuntu starts up, go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources and enable (by checking it off) the Universal repository."
I have a newer version of Ubuntu and I found Software Sources under System Settings, but I don't see the Universal option.
Btw now for the drives, it lists 600 GB system reserved, and a 600 gb filesystem (but it is only showing files from the first, windows partition)...
You may have to Google around for where to find your Ubuntu version's universal option.
That is probably because we did not restore the second half; my fault, sorry about that... If you want to, you can go back into testdisk and mark the last partition that was deleted as a primary partition and rewrite the drive.
* [System Reserved]
P (3rd partition)
P (7th partition)
I ran a quick search and it seemed to automatically put a * next to the system reserved, and P next to the other two partitions, so I wrote that and restarted. However I am still getting a screen that says Windows failed to start under Windows Boot Manager. I fear this is because I tried running the other MBR and Windows bootrec things that you suggested.
Regarding the Ubuntu fix, I found another link that seems to be more recent and worked with the version I was using, but I can't see if it really worked because I have a different problem now.
[HowTo] Restore MBR Windows using Boot Repair | HowOpenSource
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.
I don't think that is going to work at this point.
Anyway, I have re-imaged my HDD using the image backup that I copied to my secondary drive. I lost some recent data but most of my programs were already in the image, and everything was backed up already. So now I am able to boot up normally as if my problem didn't happen. Thanks for the help anyways.
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