Fairly advanced problem, need some help

[jackshiels]

Okey dokey,

first of all I'm new here, so hi there all.

Second of all, I have a fairly perplexing problem and was wondering if any of you guys know how to fix it.

Basically, I installed Windows 7 via Apple's Boot Camp facilitator on my Macbook while allocating 20GB's of space to the partition. It worked good enough, so I was pleased with it.

Recently, however, I decided to increase the partition size. Using a tool called Winclone which creates an image backup of the partition, I copied then erased and repartitioned the HD. Unfortunately WinClone has a bug where I am unable to restore the image. Now I'm left with the entire file system and contents of the original W7 setup on a disk image file without a proper way of restoring it.

I tried copying the contents of the disk image over to the new partition, but I get an error when I try to boot from it, saying I should insert a boot disk and then press any key. I reckon this has something to do with the boot manager being incorrectly calibrated, right? I would really appreciate some help with this. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem without having to reinstall Windows 7??? (I don't have access to the disc right now)

Thanks in advance,

Jack

 

[Jonathan_King]

Welcome!

Try booting up your WIndows 7 install disc, and press SHift+F10 when you get to the language screen to pull up a command prompt. Then enter the following:

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot

You may also try a startup repair, either before or after the above commands.

 

[jackshiels]

Thanks for the prompt response!

Unfortunately I don't have my disc right now (and wont for a couple of months as I am away from the home base). I was wondering if there was a way to fix this via the system files? If I'm thinking straight W XP had the boot.ini file that would probably fix this.

Thanks!

 

[Jonathan_King]

You can create a repair disc instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

You may need to download the ISOs, as mentioned at the bottom, if you can't get to another 7 machine.

 

[whs]

Maybe you can fix the MBR with EasyBCD

 

[jackshiels]

OK, I think I'll try to get a repair disc working. In the meantime, if anyone can give anything more on the subject, it would help a lot. Do you guys really think it has to do with what I suspect it to (the bootloader)?

 

[whs]

An alternative may be to reinstall Win7 as you have originally done and then just copy your own files from the winclone image (if that image can at least be mounted).

 

[jackshiels]

Yeah, it can be mounted. I have copied over the files from the image and am going to burn a repair disk. That fixes the bcd right?

Thanks for all the help.

 

[Jonathan_King]

To fix the BCD, either run a startup repair, or run bootrec /rebuildbcd.