Need Urgent help with booting


  1. Ray1935
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    Win7 Ultimate
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    Need Urgent help with booting


    Made an inadvertant error on my Win7 computer details are:

    Hard drive 1TB - partioned as:

    Drive C - 200GB
    Drive D - 100MB - system drive
    Drive E - 300Gb
    Drive F - 487GB

    I decided to split Drive F into 2 drives, so using the Disk Management routine I shrunk Drive F by 200GB and then created a new volume with the 200GB, setting the drive as S.

    I then installed MSFlight Simulator X onto drive S. I came up with a problem while it was installing Direct X and after downloading directx webinstall and receiving an error pointing to my dvd drive I just used the Restart option to reboot my machine.

    The reboot now stops at the Loading Operating System message and that's it. It has occurred to me that perhaps the computer is now trying to boot from the new drive S that I created and not from my original C drive.

    Could someone advise me how to change the boot drive back to Drive C, I have tried to Google an answer but after several hours it appears pointless so I'm hoping that some forum member will have an answer for me.

    Thanks

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  3. Bill2
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    Run a startup repair.

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  4. derekimo
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    Welcome to the forum,

    I think this tutorial will help you out with that,

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  6. Ray1935
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    Thanks for the replies, however the Startup Repair does seem to point to the fact that the system is somehow not starting correctly. I do not think that this is the problem at all. My thoughts are that the creation of the additional drive resulted in Windows assigning the active patition to the new drive and this drive has NO operating system on it. As I see it the resolution is:

    a) Delete the new partition Drive S
    b) Re activate the original Active partition Drive C.

    Under other windows this would have been achieved by simply running Fdisk, assigning the Active drive and rebooting the machine, however fdisk does not seem to recognise NTFS or Sata disks and therein I believe lies the problem.

    What I'm looking for is some routine like fdisk which will do just that. Our advancing technology has surely kept up with Windows 98. (I hope)

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  7. bobtran
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    click start and type "System Configuration" in the Search bar.
    Click on "System Configuration" at the top of the list which brings up:
    General | Boot | Services | Startup | Tools (tabs)

    You should be able to point to the partition that Windows resides on in the Boot tab
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  8. Bare Foot Kid
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    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
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    Hello Ray1935, welcome to Seven Forums!


    If you know for a fact the partition number that the flight sim is on you can use diskpart to zero that partition; you may have to do it from a command window at boot (see the "note" in the tutorial) then maybe you can get it to start in safe mode to mark C: as active then do at least 3 startup repairs to fix it (it takes at least 3) to finish the repair.
    BTW, diskpart takes a while to zero a partition, it took 2 hours to do a 300GB drive for me, diskpart will tell you when it's finished just let it do its thing.

    Have a look at the tutorial and the snip below.


    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

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  10. Ray1935
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    Thanks everyone for the suggestions however the problem was caused when I reduced the drive size and added another partition (My Drive S). I finally discovered a free Partition Manager which allowed me to delete the newly created partition and recover all my lost partitions. My system is now back to normal.

    For anyone interested the partition manager was Partition Wizard.

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  11. derekimo
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    Glad you got it sorted out and thanks for posting your solution.
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  12. Bare Foot Kid
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    Hello again Ray.



    We're glad you found a solution that works for you, thanks for the update.
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  13. CarlTR6
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
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    Ray1935 said:
    Thanks everyone for the suggestions however the problem was caused when I reduced the drive size and added another partition (My Drive S). I finally discovered a free Partition Manager which allowed me to delete the newly created partition and recover all my lost partitions. My system is now back to normal.

    For anyone interested the partition manager was Partition Wizard.

    Ray
    Glad you have it sorted out and thanks for posting the solution.
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