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could not repair W7 with install disk
I have a Windows 7 machine that dual boots Linux Mint from the same 500G WD hard drive. What I want to do is delete Linux and dd the Windows 7 installation to it's own 500G ssd.
I have dd'ed a copy of that drive to another WD500G (same model) so I can work on that. So I zapped the extended partition and Linux partition within it and moved the efi partition to the end of the drive so I could give W7 that space. After doing that and re-installing that drive it would only boot into grub rescue. I tried to repair the W7 boot files with the original install disk {startup repair}. Then command line with bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot. None of that worked.
I gave up on that and dd'ed the original drive back to the copy so I could start over (dd was from a Linux CD live session as before). I started looking around and found some things that don't seem right.
Msinfo32 does not state definitively the boot mode as bios or uefi. Gparted shows both a system reserved and efi partition. Looking at C:\Windows\Panther\NewOs\Panther ...... [Ctrl F > Detected boot environment ... was not found]. I can't find that file in one of my other dual boot (W7-Linux) machines. No idea why.
Bcdedit /enum echoed back an error (see attached). Looking around with diskpart I think I see some things that don't look right
(also see attached).
This Windows 7 machine boots both Windows and Linux and seems to operate normally. But why can't I repair this W7 installation after
deleting Linux.