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Missing Boot Manager
Hello,
So after browsing multiple forums and posts I decided to make my own since following little snippets of advice for others has possibly led me to my current problem.
Currently my Win 7 does not boot. I believe the current message is
"no active partition"
This all occurred after an update to Ubuntu on a separate external drive and subsequent use of linux based program boot-repair. Might have messed things up.
First off I am having trouble getting the Windows Repair Option to start sometimes with the message "This version of system recovery options is not comparable with the version of windows you are trying to repair"
I understand this is something to do with "EFI mode?" which I don't totally understand. The Win 7 install is on a SATA drive. In BIOS I have the option of switching things around between IDE, RAID or AHCI mode.
When I do get it up and running sometimes it doesn't even see my installation and gives me a "failed to save start up options" error when I try to repair. When I did get it do actualy display my windows install (not sure what combo of settings did it) It tells me it's a "Windows 7 Home Premium on (unknown) Local Disk. I try to repair this and it gives me a read out starting with
"Problem Signature" etc etc
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So with all the reading I've done over the last few days from what I can gather there are tools that I can hypothetically use to mark a partition active. My main issue so far is that when I go to the command prompt I can browse all drives except the one my win 7 is on. Is that normal? It starts on X:, C: is not my Win 7 install but rather a completely different internal IDE drive that I have music on.
I apologize that this is long and rambling, if there is anything else I can answer or any tests I can run or post please let me know. I have access to the Internet through a old laptop in the house and have a 1gb thumb drive I can use for diag tools/programs. No ability to burn out anything on a CD. I also have a current report output from the Ubuntu program boot-repair if that would be helpful at all, it lists a lot of info about boot loaders, drives, partition, etc.
I DON'T care about the Ubuntu install at this point. I just want to be able to get back into my windows install.
thanks in advance..
Cheers