Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Ignatz Special; 4 speed manual gearbox; factory air conditioning; one of one OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit CPU: Intel Skylake i5-6600K, not overclocked Motherboard: AsRock Z170M Extreme 4, micro ATX Memory: 8 GB HyperX DDR4-2666 (2 x 4 GB) Graphics Card: none; graphics are integrated on CPU Sound Card: onboard: Realtek ALC1150; external: USB Behringer UF0-202 Monitor(s) Displays: Dell S2340M 23 inch IPS Screen Resolution: 1600 x 900 Keyboard: Microsoft 200 6JH-00001 USB Mouse: Dell or Microsoft optical wired; USB PSU: Rosewill SilentNight 500 watt fanless, semi-modular Case: Antec Solo II Cooling: Noctua NH-U12S; Noctua F12 intake, Noctua S12A exhaust Hard Drives: System: Crucial MX100 series SSD, 128 GB;
Data: Samsung Spinpoint 103SJ, 1 TB;
Backup: WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX-00D8PB0, 3 TB Browser: Pale Moon Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Premium Other Info: All fans PWM; speeds at idle: CPU circa 500 rpm; intake circa 600 rpm; exhaust circa 600 rpm; CPU temps 27 idle and 47 C load in a warm room (27 C/81 F) when running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility stress test.
I started O&O partition manager and accidentally pressed active on partition C and now I cannot boot windows...
I am using build 7600 x86 I loaded up the windows 7 iso on a usb memory and booted from it and chose repair, it said it found things to repair, i pressed ok, it rebooted but it did not...
I was looking around in disk management and I noticed one of my data drives is marked as active (the option to mark as active is greyed out). The only other drive like this is the hidden partition on my system drive.
I don't believe I ever accidentally marked this as active, and on my other...
Was having several issues on the laptop, using Win 7 Home Prem., so we did a factory reset/restore, it seemed to have worked, however now when it is restarted it acts as if we just did the restore on it, when it restarts we get the message, "system is preparing computer for 1st use", I asked a...
I have windows 7 installed on my primary drive, but my laptop doesn't think there is an OS installed.
I don't know how, but I wonder if its been deactivated..
I was having trouble making a system image backup because windows thought there were system files on my D: drive which is just Steam...
So I did something really stupid and believe when I was looking around that I marked both drives as active and it moved my secondary drive to the front in the space as disk 0 and moved the windows drive to disk 1 and thanks it is supposed to boot from the wrong drive. I have no windows 7 recovery...