Partitioned drive and somehow it removed the boot file


  1. Posts : 85
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #1

    Partitioned drive and somehow it removed the boot file


    I tried the repair fron 7 dvd and no luck. I also tried this

    The DISKPART program recognizes a set of commands.
    Most of the ones of interest to you were given in another post.
    · type DiskPart, Enter key
    · type List disk, Enter key
    note the numeral of the disk you want to clean
    for example purposes, I’ll be using the numeral 0
    · type Select disk 0, Enter key
    · type Detail disk, Enter key
    this info will let you know if you selected correctly
    · type Select Partition 1, Enter key
    this selects the Win 7 partition
    · type Active, Enter key
    this declares the partition as the boot partition
    · type EXIT, Enter key (this exits DiskPart)
    · type EXIT, Enter key (this gets you back where you were)


    and this came up

    virtual disk service error: the specific partition type is not valid for this operation

    I tried gparted and nothing will let me make my main drive the active boot one again.

    Do I have to take into the shop and have them fix it since they would have more options or is it something I can fix? I need a fix fast.

    Is there a way for me to get the main drive which is partitioned into 2 cloned and then just reformat my whole drive and then clone the files back onto the drive? I'm just fishinbg here.
    ?
    Is there a win 7 live disk that can be used like the knoppix live?
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  2. Posts : 1,939
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
       #2

    Can you please start from the beginning and help us help you???

    It appears that you have more than 1 HDD, is this the case? Or are you referring to the partitions on a single drive?

    If multiple HDDs... which drive did you partition? Boot HDD or other?

    Your question is severly lacking in detail...
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  3. Posts : 85
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I have 3 hard drives. My main one is partition into 2. (Drive c and I) I went to resize the c drive and acronis disk manager somehow made that added space into another partitrion and made that a boot one. Not sure if Acronis did that but drive x wound up being the boot drive which I didn't realized until I deleted in through gparted. For some reason my main drive was listed as gpt whatever that was and I never saw my drives listed like that so I converted it to MBR through acronis and now I'm wondering if that is what messed it up.

    Now I can't make the c drive which says E in the command prompt the boot one active. Even in the repair win 7 the os isn't there to select to repair.

    I ran repair several times but I guess it's not going to work if win 7 isn't listed in the option to repair.
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  4. Posts : 1,939
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
       #4

    At this point I'm willing to bet that you've royally fouled things up trying to "fix" it. Your only choice may be to reinstall Win7...

    Can you send a screen shot of disk management screen?

    Also, try removing/unplugging other drives and using only the old C... any changes?
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  5. Posts : 85
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Guess what? I noticed that it had my drives listed as logical so I did a search through this forum and found how to change a logical to primary. Did that through partition wizard boot disk. I had to set the second partition of my main drive which is C and I, so it wouldn't let me set c to primary so I did I and went back to c and then I was able to set that to primary.

    Went back into repair mode and there was my win 7 listed there and was able to do the 3 times repair.

    Now I'm back in business, now I have to print all this info and hope I don't need it again.

    Thanks for taking time to reply and thanks for having a forum with the right answers and solutions. :)
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  6. Posts : 1,939
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Steve Ballmer Signature Edition
       #6

    Glad we could help!
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