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Tried the repair tool, rebooted it didnt work.
Then I did the repair tool, reboot (to dvd) repair tool, reboot (to dvd), repair tool, reboot. That didnt work.
Each and every time I tried to use the repair tool it'd search for a second or two then tell me it couldnt find a problem:
What else can I try?
The only idea I have is:
Maybe make a ~100gb partition on this hard drive, and install windows 7.
Then what I am thinking is if I were to delete this 100gb partition, I'd have the boot loader on my hard drive but it'd be looking for the necessary files in the 100gb partition to boot. It wont find them (after I delete the 100gb partition) so it will fail to boot. Now if I used the recovery disk, would it make the boot loader look in the right spot (my main windows 7 partition which will now be shrunken down to 650gb, I'd just expand it back to the full 750 after.)
Would the boot loader be installed in the 100gb partition I make or is there kind of a 'boot' partition on hard drives where the boot loaders are stored? Sorry, I dont know how all this boot stuff works... :S
I'm at the point where I might just move most of my data to my 320gb hard drive, reinstall windows on a 100gb partition, and move all my stuff from over once its all moved just use disk manager, and delete my 650gb windows 7 and expand my 100gb back to 750gb. (Essentially reinstalling windows...)
This is starting to get to be a pain, I need to use XP but have no access to it since the recovery disk overwrote the boot loader the first time I tried to recover it. (XP is stored on my 320gb HDD, and currently to get into windows 7 I need to boot my 320gb hard drive, it then starts up windows 7.)