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Can no longer boot into Windows
This is probably the wrong section, but there is no "Hard Drive" section and this does kind of have to do with OS Set-up.
My set-up as of this mourning was this.
-350GB IDE (Windows 7 installed here, main OS)
-500GB SATA (Used for storage)
-1.5TB SATA (I got this one because my 500GB was full and I needed even more storage)
This set-up is working fine for about half of a year now. But today I wanted to make a change, I decided to move all the stuff form the 500GB over to the 1.5TB since then I can get a empty drive for installing Ubuntu, and in the 1.5TB, space is not a problem.
I open up GParted LiveCD and delete the 500GB Drive so I now have 500GB of allocated space. Then I go to boot back to Windows 7 and I get the error "NO BOOT DEVICE Please insert boot device adn restart"!
Now I wanted to make sure that all my parts are still good so I loaded up Ubuntu LiveCD and looked at all my drives. I still see the 350GB, I can browse throu the Program Files folder, see all of m main OS files in the file browser here, they are all still there. The 500GB is there but I obviously can't see the files in it becaues it is all unallocated space.
But for some reason Windows Refuses to boot without having my extra 500GB of storage files. I am SURE that there are no important system files in this drive, becaues I looked at it before I deleted the main partition, all thre was were some Hidden Files/Folder, there was a folder called "$RECYCLE$BIN$" (or something like that) and it was 3.7GB but I thought it diddnt matter so I just formatted that away.
Now apperantly these few files are so important to windows that they are required to boot
I should note that when I am in device manager while Windows still worked, I would see that both C: AND F: are both "System Disks" that cannot be formatted wile Windows is running! But there are no system files on F:
It may be that i used to have XP installed on the 500GB 3 years ago, but not that I remember.