Partition Table Does Not Have a Valid Partition

Check the drives heath. Download:
- Crystal disk info
- harddisksentinel

Both are portable. Don't need to install.

Your drive 0 is UEFI-GPT but your drive 2 is MBR and is set as active that shows it once had a OS as Legacy-MBR
As it now is a data drive you must set it as inactive. You can do it under Disk Manager or with diskpart.

jjr said:

I send my win 7 PC in for repair and when it came back it had win 10. I used acronis image to bring back to 7.

That's very crucial information to know about.

So you have an Acronis image of your old Win7 installation ... but is Disk-0 the same disk that used to have Win7 (when you made the Acronis image) or is Disk-0 a new addition by the repair shop? Did the repair shop do an "over-the-top" upgrade from Win7 to Win10 (i.e., were all your old Win7 programs that you had installed still there)? Or did the repair shop instead do a clean install of Win10 with none of your Win7 programs carried over?

The reason that's important is it would help determine what you had before. Your Disk-0 is currently setup as UEFI/GPT, but Win7 installations were typically BIOS/MBR. If your XPS8700 was BIOS/MBR when the Acronis Win7 image was made, that may explain why it failed to successfully restore when the image was restored to a UEFI/GPT disk.

Yes disc zero is where my os was originally and still is


The shop was square trade warranty, went in for a apparent bad Mobo, they just sent it back w Win 10 so I really do not know what they did.When I did the recovery I lost everything I had stored on drive 2 that is when the mess started.

After trying to fix that I noticed they had my sata cables reversed frimw what I remember between my 2nd burner and if I remember that number 2 drive.

So apparently in my first recovery the os was sent to drive 2.

I'm far from a techie so could I just format dive 2 and just leave that active. If format will not remove the partitions could I just use easeus to merge all the partitions then format?

I do not want to screw anything more up. Or as a test could I just unplug drive 2 and run the Win7 repair option?

Thanks

dg1261 said:

That's very crucial information to know about.

So you have an Acronis image of your old Win7 installation ... but is Disk-0 the same disk that used to have Win7 (when you made the Acronis image) or is Disk-0 a new addition by the repair shop? Did the repair shop do an "over-the-top" upgrade from Win7 to Win10 (i.e., were all your old Win7 programs that you had installed still there)? Or did the repair shop instead do a clean install of Win10 with none of your Win7 programs carried over?

The reason that's important is it would help determine what you had before. Your Disk-0 is currently setup as UEFI/GPT, but Win7 installations were typically BIOS/MBR. If your XPS8700 was BIOS/MBR when the Acronis Win7 image was made, that may explain why it failed to successfully restore when the image was restored to a UEFI/GPT disk.

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My original acronis image is gone I have a image of my current.

Also I have a identical xps 8700 running the same os. Only difference is the ram, problem machine has more ram.

Would it be possible to put a image on a hhd from the good machine and try it on the bad one?

A active partition tells that the partition is ready to boot.
Setting it to inactive doesn't change the data on it.

Check disk only checks logical issues.
For hardware issues use -- Crystal disk info or harddisksentinel

SIW2 said:

The confusion might be from the efi folder on disk 0 40mb fat32 partition.

Can I just delete that partition?

At this point I simply give up, I wish that I could just reinstall Win7 but I do not know where to get the drivers as well don't i need SP1?

Then more I play with it the more I screw it up ;-)

I was able to create a rescue disc from my other pC which I also screwed up but at least I'm still able to backup to Acronis and with the rescue disc and Win 7 disc I should be good.