After doing the above, I also got BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
But after I ran Windows Recovery again twice (it did something a little differently each time) I managed to boot in.
I also replaced the Sata and power cable to my system drive as a precaution.
I suspect a cable just came loose though because this happened after I disconnected a backup HDD.
Am wary of a hardware issue though so am taking plenty of backups.
Thanks for your help in this thread.
How would I go about tackling the issue if doing Diskpart; lis vol does NOT display my Windows partition that needs repairing?
You might try free partition wizard bootable iso.
If that doesn't see the partition, try the partition recovery feature.
Tick ALL partitions you want , then Apply.
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ty, that worked like a charm. now i see the partition i want on diskpart lis vol.
Going further down the above instructions, 'act' gives me an error saying the specified partition type is not valid for the operation (i did sel vol on the right partition). the info on the volune is:
Fs: NTFS
Type: Partition
Size: 106 GB
Status: Healthy
It is a partition restored with winclone with an image of a partition i used to boot off of all the time...
Thank you in advance for your help.
It is probably a logical drive.
You can convert it to Primary with partition wiz.
Rt click it and select Modify>Set partition as Primary.
( If it won't allow that, you already have 4 partition slots taken up )
that set me on the right track, and i got my partition back the way it was.
thank you scholars for your gentlemenly help.
may your days brim with joy and exhuberance.
Hi there - I'm needing help as well. This thread is very informative. I have a SSD drive as well and all of a sudden my system wouldn't start up - just a black screen. I disconnected all drives and everything else and then is said to insert bootable material. I used the win 7 DVD and used the act command in diskpart with the right volume selected. After the reboot it now says bootmgr is missing hit ctrl+alt+del to restart. So I try to run the repair section on the win DVD and it says the version of windows on the disk is incompatible with the win disk. I know its the same win version. What do I do? I do have a USB device I can put the SSD drive into on another computer (did this first to make sure the data was still on the SSD when I first noticed a problem). Thank you a ton for your time!
Pat
I just figured out that the win dvd repair tools will work if the SSD partition is not active. Once I set that partition to active I get the "not compatible" message and the repair tools wont load. Kinda stuck in a loop here. ???
Last edited by segwayglider; 14 May 2013 at 23:22. Reason: more info
Just had to send a big thanks to SIW2 for taking the time to help so many people. i also had a boot error with Win 7 after playing around with my partitions. i had installed Win 7 64-bit on a new HDD and was dual booting my pc with an older HDD running Vista 32-bit. I dual booted to copy over all my files and pictures. I then erased the old driver and began to setup the new OS to leverage the old HDD as a backup drive. Win 7 backp utility failed everytime and threads indicated modifying partition sizes. This caused system to loose boot and in turn make the disk fail. Thanks to your instructions i was able to make my drive active again, ran startup repair 3 times just as you said and I am back in business and my wife will not kill me for loosing several thousand pictures and several hundred gigis of music.
Hi SIW2, or anyone else able to please help me!!
I have received the same message in Windows Startup repair: "The partition table does not have a valid system partition"
Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Completed successfully
The system restarts but still will not boot windows. It only loads up to the windows install / repair screen. If I take out the Win7 CD and restart, I get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected boot drive and press a key". The BIOS IS detecting the SSD and it is the top of the boot order list.
So my main question is - I want to try your fix, but is it OK to do it on an SSD drive?
I dont know much about partitioning or how it works in detail. I'm pretty sure my drive wasn't partitioned before because it would have shown up as 2 drives in windows? (3 if you include my Samsung HD)
Back story / System spec:
Custom build PC
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel Core i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz
ASUS P7H55-M PRO
Hard Drives
OCZ-VERTEX2 SATAII SSD 80GB
SAMSUNG GD103SJ 1TB
WD EXTERNAL 1TB
Case: Cooler master
Cooling : Water cooled
What happened:
My friend built this PC for me 3 years ago. I did not know that you weren't meant to defrag an SSD drive. I defragged my C drive (SSD with Windows installed) then it would only load to Windows welcome, then white screen, no desktop icons, nothing except the cursorthis is pretty stressful for me as I work from home as a professional music composer and this is my main machine to work on. My laptop is pretty useless.
He said try inserting Win7 DVD and using windows startup repair. I did this and got the partition info message I mentined above, but although it says it was successful, I'm not getting any further.
All my work is backed up but I do not have a recent system restore point and no system imageso I'm trying to avoid having to reinstall everything.
Also I should note that I am technically minded and good at following technical instructions, but am in no way a computer expert so please tell me everything in laymans terms and please dont use acronyms unless my computer shows it as an acronym e.g. BIOS!
Thanks so much for your time reading this!
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