Dell Inspiron one 2320 - Will not recover/repair

iamseven said:

Hi Guys
Here is the Diskpart listings from the Win7 Inspiron
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Yes the DISKPART listing in the picture shows no active partition.

The picture also shows that the operating system is on drive E: (partition 3 of disk 0). You need to mark this partition as "active". Either use DISKPART or follow SIW2's instructions:

SIW2 said:

Click nt6repair ( it is on the desktop).

1. Activation Section:

Select E in the "Select partition to mark Active" dropdown.
Click "Set active"

2. Auto Boot Repair section:

Select E in "Select Active partition" dropdown
Select E in "Select Windows partition" dropdown
Click "Apply"

I don't have any OEM computer to check, but I would say that The C: (System partition) is the one to mark as Active and E: is the one with Win 7.

OK guys,

Still no joy.

Did as per instructions with nt6repair, selecting E:\.

Did a restart and still same start up but with a black screen from F1 with error from Windows boot manager

Went back through diskpart checking where is the os drive now. Its now C:\

Went back into nt6repair and continued as before but with C:\ as it has the os now.

Rebooted and still same black screen message from Windows manager.

Can't understand why on a Legacy - MBR disk you have partition 1 (39M) as FAT. Does it has anything on D: ?

SIW2 said:

That usually indicates the location in the bcd store is wrong.


First, open partition assistant and check the windows partition ( now C ) is showing as Active

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Ok ran Partition Asst to check if C: was active and its showing as 'boot'.

Ran Diskpart again and selected disk '0' then Partition '3' as having 'os' and selected to be active.

Diskpart confirmed as active.

Went back into Partition assist and C: still shown as Boot.

Not tried any further with the other instructions.

Back again,

Yeah C: is active. Now doing the bcdedit list from earlier, something else is coming up now. Have not tried the other instructions.