Invalid system partition

Hey, so I'm new. HI O_O. lol been racking my brain and lacking in sleep because I have been trying to find a way back into my install of Windows 7. Basicly It can't find my install. Start up repair with Win7 repair disk comes back "root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid system partition. Repair of course just doesn't seem to do anything. Have been at this for round 6-7 hours off and on. Though I am not very good with command line interfaces. Don't know if this is important but where it would say your windows directory in the log file it only says

System disk= \Device\harddisk0
windows directory =

Don't know if it being blank is important. If anyone can shed some light on what I can do to get back in or how would I go about getting some of my 2 days of data'/updating on to my other HDD?


PS. was reading earlier that the log file is kept in %windir%\system32\logfiles\srt\srttrail.txt I can only find as far as logfiles Can't find srt. Blah,

Boot 7 dvd to system recovery options command prompt. Type:

Diskpart

lis vol

( find the vol letter e.g C or partition number e.g. 1 for the system partition )

sel vol C ( or sel vol 1 , obviously use the correct letter or number)

act

exi

see if that helps.

I have found IT!!!

Volume 1 Letter C Lable Windows 7 file system NTFS Type Partition size 74GB (80 gb drive...) Status healthy....


Feel like im so close.....

Any other vols listed?


You need to pick the right one.

SIW2 said:

Boot 7 dvd to system recovery options command prompt. Type:

Diskpart

lis vol

( find the vol letter e.g C or partition number e.g. 1 for the system partition )

sel vol C ( or sel vol 1 , obviously use the correct letter or number)

act

exi

see if that helps.

I was with you up till act and exi. I'm a command line newb

There is my repair cd (I d/c 'd my 320 gb drive)

im going between comps, this is a full on mission haha.

ok so here is what I am looking at


list disk

Disk o online size 74gb free 1024 dyn gpt both blank?

diskpart> list volume

vol 0 ltr d (my repair cd)

vol 1 ltr c Volume windows 7 (the object of my desire) ntfs type partition size 74 gb healthy

I have selected volume 1 windows 7 aka C:

.....and then?

Type just these three letters:

act

then press enter

next, type just these three letters

exi

then press enter - to leave diskpart.

close cmd prompt. Take the dvd out. Restart pc.

lol im stupid didn't see ur post. ok so act was to make it active, done. exi as in exit?