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I Broke Windows 7
Hi all,
First time posting. Sorry if I require a little patience.
I just broke Windows. I was trying to install Ubuntu, so I shrunk my C:/ partition, removed my recovery (heh) and HP Tools partitions, and used Gparted (live USB) to split the free space into a root, swap, and home directory.
Here's where the trouble starts. In order to get Gparted to create the partitions, I needed to run the following commands:
sudo mdadm --detail -scan
then, for each of the drives listed (2):
sudo mdadm --remove *drive name (e.g. /dev/something that starts with 'm')*
Then, gparted created the partitions without complaint. My understanding was that it was something about stopping raid arrays... maybe. Windows still started fine, so I was happy.
Then, I went to Ubuntu to install. Ubuntu didn't see any partitions, and I found this:
partitioning - Dual Booting - Ubuntu Installer doesn't recognize Windows 7 or find partitions - Super User
so I used dmraid and presumably broke my raid. The ubuntu install failed anyways, and now, obviously, windows won't boot.
Any thoughts? I don't care about getting ubuntu any more, I just want my windows back. Is there a way to undo the dmraid command?
Thanks