reinstall Windows but on restart no boot found

Hi all,

I recently reinstalled Windows 7 after a virus, but I think during the re-install I must have messed with the partitions. Now it installs fine but when I switch the laptop off and reboot it doesn't recognize or run Windows, unless I plug the usb back in and install from there. Once installed it runs fine, but as soon as you shutdown it won't restart.

I have tried cleaning disk and clearing partitions and the only thing I can think it is, is that it always wants to put the system reserved space and therefore the boot drive on disk 1, I can't seem to change this even after trying. Does this sound like the issue or am I clutching at straws?

Thanks for any help

Beware, you're going do clean all the HDD.
- Boot your Win 7 installation on UEFI mode, go to install, custom, advanced, delete all partitions, create a new one (Win will create 3 partitions) and proceed.

Hi,

Thanks but I have tried clean install, everything works fine but then there is an issue in the boot up, I have tried doing all the usual fixes for boot issues and Windows cannot resolve it. Any other way to resolve boot issues?

Thanks

I'm sure the underlying problem is that disk 0 is the primary disk and it's only 22GB. Is there any way to make disk 0 into disk 1 and visa versa? So the system reserved space will only create on disk 0 and so when I install Windows on disk 1 it doesn't look for it. Arghh it's driving me crazy, thanks for your help everyone!

Please see attached, you can see that disk 0 has 22.7gb and is a small drive, I think this should be disk 1 but cannot change them and think this is causing boot issues.

Thanks

Hi, but disk 2 is just my usb with win7 on. I'm really confused how they got the wrong way round (disk 0 and disk 1) as its a laptop that was working fine before. Ideally I would prefer not to disassemble it as I'm not comfortable working with laptops under the cover. So any solution that works without opening it up would be preferred.

Thanks