Partition table lost after Hibernate

Please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map and listings. Use Snipping Tool in Start Menu.

It's possible your System partition was derailed to the data drive. It needs to be checked to see if it is still marked System Active.

Then we need to see what partition is now marked System Active on the WIn7 HD since its partitioning was unclear in DISKPART prior to repair.

gregrocker said:

Please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map and listings. Use Snipping Tool in Start Menu.

It's possible your System partition was derailed to the data drive. It needs to be checked to see if it is still marked System Active.

Then we need to see what partition is now marked System Active on the WIn7 HD since its partitioning was unclear in DISKPART prior to repair.

Drive map attached. Zenith (E: ) is active when it should not be, as it is a slave. Thanks for the followup.

How do I take care of the second step you are talking about with DISKPART?

Bare Foot Kid said:

The way is shown in my snip below.

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Got it, thanks.

Any thoughts on my theory as to why this problem occurred after the hibernate in the first place?

It likely happened because Zenith was marked Active which confused or corrupted the MBR.

We see this here all the time with random partitions marked Active.

gregrocker said:

It likely happened because Zenith was marked Active and confused or corrupted the MBR. We see this here all the time with random partitions marked Active.

Ah, but Zenith wasn't marked active until after I followed your instructions.

Bare Foot Kid said:

nabilalk said:

gregrocker said:

It likely happened because Zenith was marked Active and confused or corrupted the MBR. We see this here all the time with random partitions marked Active.

Ah, but Zenith wasn't marked active until after I followed your instructions.

How do you know, you couldn't boot into Windows?

I assumed b/c startup repair said there was a partition table issue. I do believe that my BIOS thought Zenith was the primary. Hopefully that problem won't creep up again. I wish I could tell the difference in the BIOS b/w the 2 identical drives.