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BOOTMGR missing after power outage. SPECIAL CASE!
Hi everyone, I know there is a million and one tutorials, fixes and guides online and youtube and trust me I`ve scoured all of them in the last 3 days. With no avail.
My problem is the following.
I had a power cut and my windows 7 didn`t boot after, total lack of boot record and boot partition.
I tried fixing with Windows 7 USB, repair it ways that it cant be fixed automatically and that I should contact microsoft. First of all in the repair usb, the operating system or drive is not shown in the window where it is supposed to show up.
I made an Aomei partition assistant boot USB and I saw that my system partition is OK, all my data is there. I set it to active, rebuild MBR and restart. Still nothing.
Went back to windows repair USB, command line. Used Diskpart to select disk, select partition, active, exit.
Used Bootrec /fixboot, success. bootrec /fixmbr, success. bootrec /scanos, success, found windows on C:
then i got to bootrec /rebuildmbr and says the system is not available or invalid.
For now I split the partitions and managed to use a 70 GB partition to install windows 7 to at least copy my files from the unbootable partition and my other SSD.
My question is.....why cant i copy or port the new install bootmgr or boot files to the NON-working old partition and make it active and boot again.
Nothing seems to work, I would need files from that windows OS for my work. Is there any way to ghost just the partition or something. So now my C is the new 70 GB partition with working windows 7 but I would need the windows on the old partition to also be bootable.
Appreciate all the help I can get....exhausted and stumped after 2 days of trial and error.