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Windows 7 won't load anymore
Hello all. not sure I'm in the right forum but whatever.
I'm running a dual boot system with Slackware Linux and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Using the LILO boot manager to switch between things. Everything was working fine, just did a fresh install of both OS's. I was fiddling around under windows 7 in disk manager because I essentially needed to created a new partition because I had split my 500 gig hdd into the following: 100 gig, for Windows, 100 gigs for Slackware and the rest for NTFS data. I had not set up that final partition which was what i was doing under disk management. So i set it up as NTFS and say ok then all my partitions switched from blue to orange and it assigned some drive letters to my linux paritions (OS and the Swap) which it had not done previously... as expected. Now being the old tech that I am, i didn't take the time to read any messages that popped up as well... windows does that a lot so so i don't remember if anything popped up before or after this happened.
Now the big problem, i reboot my system, Linux works fine and I can access the windows partition no problem and even modify things in it. Then i load windows again and it just hangs at the "Windows Loading" screen (all black with white text). It's not frozen as the little cursor is blinking. But it just hangs there.
If anyone has any idea what happened and if there's a fix it would be a great help, I really don't feel like re-installing.
Also, if anyone can tell me what process that part of the bootup sequence is (i.e. NTKRNL.exe, NTDETECT.com, etc) guys at microsoft thought it was a good idea to redo/rename all of that again. Also, if anyone could point me where the equivalent of the boot.ini would be... that is if they had the brilliant idea to put one in.
Well that pretty much sums it up
Cheers