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Tried to delete a system reserved partition, now windows7won't install
Hi everyone.
Today I received my new samsung SSD and a WD 1TB harddrive which I bought because my old hdd was failing. I installed windows with my dvd which went fine. I installed it on the SSD, obviously. In Windows I couldn't see the WD hdd in My Computer so I formatted it in disk managment as one usually has to do when getting a new hdd. Somehow I accidentally hit a button which created a 100MB system reserved partition from the WD hdd. I couldn't remove it so I followed a guide to do so. It involved booting from my windows dvd, entering command prompt and entering this into cmd:
Diskpart
list disk
select disk x
list partition
select partition
delete partition override
select partition x
active
this was the guide:
TeraByte Unlimited Knowledge Base
After this I tried to boot and it gave me the "bootmgr is missing" even though I did not touch the SSD in cmd (as far as i know). To be honest I have no idea what I did in cmd. It was stupid of me to try this. Anyway I figured I would just boot from the windows dvd and format the SSD and reinstall windows. My current problem is now I cannot seem to install Windows. It starts out fine, but when it restarts the first time to continue the install like a windows installation always does, it never gets any further. It reboots and all I get is a black screen when it should continue.
What the hell do I do? Any help is appreciated. feel free to ask if you need more info.