Solved could not repair W7 with install disk

[Sam1951]

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.

 

[torchwood]

you may have deleted linux, but most likely the "BCD" entries are still present

 

[Sam1951]

I think I made some progress, at least the problem has changed. I started over and and nuked the extended partition, Linux partition and the efi partition. Then I booted from a rescue disk I had made back when this windows was installed. I had to mark the windows partition active and change it's drive letter to C (it was D), also removed the drive letter from the system reserved partition (it was C). I got these commands to say they completed successfully ... bootrec /fixmbr, /fixboot and /rebuildbcd. Now I'm getting BOOTMGR is missing. Don't know what to try next.

 

[SIW2]

indicates that bootmgr is not on the active partition. Try marking the system reserved partition active.

 

[Sam1951]

That was it !!!! It turned out to be something simple. Surprising that in all my research for solutions, I didn't see prominently displayed "make sure the system reserved partition is marked active". Maybe so obvious there was no need to mention that? Oh well, live and learn .... thanks so much

 

[SIW2]