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Disk boot failure after deleting WinXP partition
Greetings,
I've recently rendered my computer useless by deleting my Windows XP partition to merge the remaining space into my Windows 7 partition. Now I get a "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" error.
I've run the Startup Repair utility about six times now and have had no progress. The 'System Recovery Options' panel doesn't detect anything (The window that has two dot check points; One being 'restore your computer using a system image that you created earlier', the other 'Use recovery tools that can help fix problems starting Windows'). I don't know what drivers it expects me to find, but any help there would be great.
So here are a few things i've tried;
I'm not sure what information is worth mentioning, so i'll mention it all.
Running the startup repair six times, as mentioned previously.
Bootrec /scanos - [1] D:\Windows
Bootrec /fixboot - Element not found
Bootrec /fixmbr - The operation completed successfully.
Diskpart List disk: Disk 0 Status online.
I selected disk 0
Diskpart list partition:
Partition 1 T:Primary S:93gigs Offset: 31kb
Partition 2 T:Primary S:138gigs Offset: 94gigs
I don't have have experience in Diskpart, so I didn't do any more queries.
How could I get out of this rut?