Solved BCD missing status:0xc000000f & Diskpart won't list my main partition

[tisungeni]

i'm here now. let me try those commands

 

[tisungeni]

ok i've run them and again nothing happens. just goes to a new line. so i guess they are already deleted?

 

[Kaktussoft]

ok i've run them and again nothing happens. just goes to a new line. so i guess they are already deleted?

If nothing happens the file is deleted succesfully. Otherwise it would say "file not found", "access denied"

Now boot again from dvd and perform a startup repair. Do it 3 times with reboots in between to be sure it fixes everything.

 

[tisungeni]

ok. i'll try that

 

[Kaktussoft]

BCD missing status:0xc000000f means there is no BCD on active partition in \boot folder. Very strange it was there because you deleted it! Maybe it was just corrupt(?) You did chkdsk/f the "system reserved" volume and it didn't find any errors.... correct?

Any idea why PQSERVICE and ACER partition were lost/deleted?

 

[tisungeni]

ok i run thr startup repair 3 times with restarts in between. now the pc is starting up without a dvd. ani've managed to log inot my account. it's a bit slow. i've opened Computer and I can see the ACER and PQSERVICE partitions. but I can't see the SYSTEM RESERVED. Plus before PQSERVICE was hidden.

What now?

 

[tisungeni]

Oh and Acer is labelled C and PQservice is labelled E

 

[Kaktussoft]

ok i run thr startup repair 3 times with restarts in between. now the pc is starting up without a dvd. ani've managed to log inot my account. it's a bit slow. i've opened Computer and I can see the ACER and PQSERVICE partitions. but I can't see the SYSTEM RESERVED. Plus before PQSERVICE was hidden.

What now?

Did you see system reserved before problems appeared? Normally is hasn't a drive letter assigned... so quite normal. Please post screenshot of disk management

 

[tisungeni]

I've run Diskpart, list volume and all the partitions are there but SYSTEM RESERVED isn't assigned a letter. Should I leave it that way? And how can I hide the PQSERVICE partition?

 

[Kaktussoft]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/81499-system-restore-configuration-enable-disable.html

Enable it on ACER (C) if not enabled now. Don't enable it on PQSERVICE!!

 

[Kaktussoft]

In elevated command prompt

diskpart
sel vol e:
det part

Is it type NTFS?

 

[tisungeni]

enable what exactly?

 

[Kaktussoft]

enable what exactly?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/81499-system-restore-configuration-enable-disable.html
Is protection ON or OFF for ACER, PQSERVICE and System reserved? Select ACER and put it on if not alreaydy on. Put it off for the other 2 partitions

 

[Kaktussoft]

enable what exactly?

This tells you all http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/330-system-protection-turn-off.html

Is E type NTFS?

 

[tisungeni]

here is the screenshot

 

[tisungeni]

oh and yes PQSERVICE is NTFS

 

[Kaktussoft]

here is the screenshot
View attachment 249171

Screenshot looks fine. So keep system reserved as it is.

diskpart
sel  vol  e
remove letter=e
set  id=27 override
exit

All commands succesfull? Enter disk management again and post screenshot. No drive letter anymore. ID=27 so OEM NTFS (sort of unaccessible NTFS)

 

[tisungeni]

i haven't run those commands yet. i'm still trying to enable/disable system restore settings. i'm confused. how do i know which partition i'm making the changes on? i'm following the instructions on the link you gave

 

[Kaktussoft]

Post a screenshot like this

 

[tisungeni]

that's how it looks. so what should i do?