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Windows 7 repair shows 0mb partition size
I put a computer together a week ago and the first time I installed windows 7 and then installed the graphics/motherboard drivers it did not boot back up. It would say that windows failed to start (it wouldn't give me a reason) and then would go into attempt start-up repairs. I let this run a few times and this did not fix the problem. In the start-up repair screen (run from the CD) it has me select a windows installation but the only one listed is a Windows 7 installation with a partition size of 0 mb. I figured it was a driver issue so I reinstalled windows 7 and this time used drivers I downloaded from ASRock's website and only installed the LAN and graphics drivers and left everything else stock. When I went to reinstall windows the partitions showed up correctly at 260gb and 11gb. This appeared to work for about a week when suddenly the computer froze up, we restarted it, and then windows wouldn't boot up again and start-up repair came up. I reinstalled windows 7 again last night and did the same thing again although this time I let windows update run all night. When I work up this morning it was back to the same problem again.
Any suggestions for how I should start to investigate this would be very much appreciated!
Specs follow:
ASRock H61M/U3S3 LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMV8GX3M2A1333C9 PNY Commercial Series VCGGT5201XPB-CG GeForce GT 520 (Fermi) 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card
Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST250LT021 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive
COOLER MASTER Elite 460 RS-460-PSAR-I3 460W ATX12V V2.31 Power Supply
Intel Pentium G870 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80623G870