Currently, I have it pinned as cable select. But I have tried it as master and got the same results. I have even tried disconnecting all devices and booting/installing from a usb. Still got the same result.
Since my last posts on here, I have messed with it much. But the last thing I tried was to install win7, setting the partition to only 100gb. This way it showed two partitions, a 100gb and a 30.27 unallocated space. I let windows create it's little 100mb partition but then I deleted the 100gb partition and resized the 100mb to 100gb and chose to install windows 7 there. So I got the system up and running and used it for a couple of days, checking for updates, yada, yada. Then I decided that I would try dual booting with ubuntu 9.10. Using the ubuntu live cd with gParted, I took the unallocated space (200gb in gparted, but win7 only showed 30gb), and created an extended partition with three logical partitions. One 50gb for ubuntu, one 5gb for swap, and the remainder for files. I installed ubuntu and let it rewrtie the mbr so I could use grub. As you can imagine, when I went to boot win7, I got the bootmgr missing error. Normally, I'd be fine with that. But when I let windows "fix" it's errors, it finds no operating system. I have searched the web and tried all kinds of solutions but nothing works. Yes, even the command line solutions, like bootrec.exe /fixboot. That one tells me "element not found" This one doesn't work either,
bcdedit /export C:\bcd_backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /rebuild bcd
This one is supposed work if the system repair finds no operating system, according to microsoft's website. Well it doesn't in my case. I've tried it 4-5 times. When I type the export command, I get the message "export operation failed, requested system device cannot be found". WTF? Anyway, I went anyway and typed the rest of the commands anyway just for kicks. When I type the rebuild bcd command, I get this message, "rebuild - found 0 identified windows installations"
So I have concluded that I have a bad win7 disk or something because I have even wiped the hd clean and went with a clean install of win7, no fancy partitioning, nothing. Simply boot to win7 disk, install to hd and let it be even though that's not what I want. The install went well, as expected. So I resized the partition with gparted and I still have the same exact problems as above when I try to fix the bootmgr after simply just resizing the existing partition. And I only shrunk it from 127gb to 100gb and left the rest to unallocated space. Even doing that, the windows 7 repair can't fix it's own problem. I did the same thing again this time trying partition wizard v4.2.2, getting the same result.
So currently, I am writing zeroes to the hard drive. Completely erasing it. If that doesn't make windows 7 installation disk see the whole hard drive, then I am going to try a different installation disk. I am using Windows 7 ultimate 32bit and I have a 64 bit system.
