please don't laugh...

Wow, one hell of a week.

Alright, since the integrity of the drive and whatnot seems to be in question...

Can you download Ubuntu, burn it to a CD, and then boot onto it? I just want to check that everything is more or less working alright. We will also be able to see your partitions (and work with them) from within Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

~Lordbob

What stage are you at now ?

karlsnooks said:

Lordbob75 said:

Wow, one hell of a week.

Alright, since the integrity of the drive and whatnot seems to be in question...

Can you download Ubuntu, burn it to a CD, and then boot onto it? I just want to check that everything is more or less working alright. We will also be able to see your partitions (and work with them) from within Ubuntu.
Download | Ubuntu

~Lordbob

That we can do with the Win 7 DVD or with a WiN 7 System Repair Disc.

You can't boot into Windows without installing it first...

My point is that it will be a lot easier to work with since she is having problems with the harddrive booting.

~Lordbob

karlsnooks said:

My good man.

You boot up the Win 7 DVD and at the first dialog you push SHIFT F10 key combo. This gets you to a WinPE installed in ram. From this point, with DiskPart you can do everything and more than disk managment does.

I never knew that...
Learn something everyday I suppose.

In that case, we don't need to use Ubuntu (though we still could).
My only other concern is the disk she has. I know she mentioned it, but I know it was not a full install disk...

~Lordbob

You may be getting "Logical" partitions by default when you create them using Partition Wizard as the default is logical and Windows cannot / is not able to boot (start) from a logical partition; be sure to pay attention when presented with this dialog box.

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You're right BFK, the System Reserved partition is now 'Logical' and should be 'Primary'.

mypcbroke said:

You need to give partition a drive letter in PW to Check File System. WHile you're at it, Resize partition to include whole HD.


How do I give the partition a drive letter?
Also, I'm not sure what you mean with resive to include whole HD.
Currently, I have 2. One with 297.99GB (Primary Active) and the other has 104.47MB (logical)

You need to change this: the other has 104.47MB (logical), to a Primary Partition.

This was initially setup as your System Reserved Boot Partition.
It will Fail to install as the boot files are there and the OS is in the other Partition.

Boot into the Partition Wizard CD and change the 104.47MB partition to Primary and Active.
First, Partition Tab > Modify > Set Partition as Primary
Then, Partition Tab > Modify > Set Active
Make sure they are both 'Primary' partitions.

Then post a camera shot of PW with the two partitions.