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Active partition and boot problem
Hi all,
I had a dual boot setup with windows 7 x86 and ubuntu 9.10, then I formatted the windows partition and installed x64 on it, as expected, it overrode grub thus i did not have any bootloader in the boot, then i reinstalled grub and got my ubuntu back but now i have the dreaded BOOTMGR issue in windows 7 boot, when i boot with windows 7 install disk, it detects the windows installation but the volume letter has now changed to E:. I suspect that the partition is not active anymore so that it is named E: and it cannot be booted from. How do i make the partition active again without reinstalling windows 7 and harming ubuntu? I presume windows 7 does not have any utility equivalent of fdisk.exe. any help will be greatly appreciated.