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Hello

This is my first post on the forum so excuse me if i make any mistakes :)

Last night, i let my PC on to run a disk defragment and when i woke up i realized that it was crashed, my monitor was on but i couldn't see anything on the screen so i restarted the PC.

Then i got the error Missing Operating System.
I accessed the BIOS and i noticed that the Primary IDE Master/Slave were not detected.
Then i inserted the Windows 7 disk to perform a repair and it didn't detect any operating systems. I clicked on Load Drivers but i couldn't access any of the drivers and it asked me to perform a format.

I've also attached some pictures of the screen to help you understand the problem.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
 

My Computer

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Custom
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 555 Processor
Motherboard
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO
Memory
8192 MB (DDR3 SDRAM)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB) (x2)
Monitor(s) Displays
LG W2443 24'
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1920x1080
Hard Drives
WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (596 GB, IDE)
WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (596 GB, IDE)
PSU
Inter-Tech FP 750W
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Smilodon RaidMax
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H70 corsair
Welcome vpro :)

It looks like disk defrag may have wiped your bootable OS. It looks like your bios only shows you have 2 SATA HD connected to the MB. If you do not have any IDE HDs, that is why Primary Master/Slave were not detected. Normally the Bootable SATA HD should be on the first SATA connection on the MB. Your 5th pic, in the background says (4) Hard Disk Drives ? Could you please give a few more details of your hardware specs ? How much data & programs were on your Boot HD ?

I have had a long 16 hour work day, already so I don't want to advise you what do do yet without more info & hopefully some more of our Guru members will see your thread also.
 

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Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
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I thing disc defrag may have come across an error whilst running, it could be worth running a hard drive test that are in most BIOS's as it may indicate a damaged sector or similar.

Also it may be worth trying to recover the data from your HDD, maybe using an application such as recuva.

One more idea could be using a linux ubuntu bootable disc so that you can access the file system and have a look whats on the HDD that way.
 

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Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit)
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AMD Phenom II X4 965e @ 4000MHz
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Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3
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4096MB DDR3-SDRAM
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Nvidia GTX 560 Ti
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N/A
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1x 32" LCD, 1x 24" LED, 1x 19" LED
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1x 1TB system drive
2x 2TB storage drive
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850w modular
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NZXT Phantom Red
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DocBrown said:
Welcome vpro :)

It looks like disk defrag may have wiped your bootable OS. It looks like your bios only shows you have 2 SATA HD connected to the MB. If you do not have any IDE HDs, that is why Primary Master/Slave were not detected. Normally the Bootable SATA HD should be on the first SATA connection on the MB. Your 5th pic, in the background says (4) Hard Disk Drives ? Could you please give a few more details of your hardware specs ? How much data & programs were on your Boot HD ?

I have had a long 16 hour work day, already so I don't want to advise you what do do yet without more info & hopefully some more of our Guru members will see your thread also.
Click to expand...

Hello and thanks for your help.

I have 2x Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA.

The 4 Hard Disk Drives are:
1)Local Disk(C: )
2)Local Disk(D: )
3)Local Disk(E: )
4)Boot(X: )

I tried to reboot my PC few minutes ago and i got a BSOD when i tried to boot from my Windows 7 disc :S
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
Then i restarted my PC and tried again and it booted fine from the Windows 7 disc.

I added new pictures below.







 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 555 Processor
Motherboard
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO
Memory
8192 MB (DDR3 SDRAM)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB) (x2)
Monitor(s) Displays
LG W2443 24'
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (596 GB, IDE)
WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (596 GB, IDE)
PSU
Inter-Tech FP 750W
Case
Smilodon RaidMax
Cooling
H70 corsair
I'm intrigued as to what's happened to your boot partition.

On a clean install Windows 7 will create a boot partition of 100Mb as the first partition on Drive C, yet yours shows as 33Mb on Drive X.

Check what's showing in Disk Management rather than Windows Explorer and see which partition(s) are marked as active. Although I'm no expert there seems to be something badly amiss here.

My Disk Management layout:

View attachment 156632
 
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HP Pavilion Elite 495UK
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
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Intel Core i7 870 @ 2.93GHz
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MSI 2A9C (CPU1)
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8Gb Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz
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nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1024MB dedicated RAM
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Realtek HD Audio
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HP2310i
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1920 x 1080
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1x1954GB Hitachi HDS22020ALA 330 (RAID), 1x1954GB Hitachi External for backup and storage
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460W
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HP Elite
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Air cooled
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Logitech K750 solar-powered keyboard
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seavixen32 said:
I'm intrigued as to what's happened to your boot partition.

On a clean install Windows 7 will create a boot partition of 100Mb as the first partition on Drive C, yet yours shows as 33Mb on Drive X.

Check what's showing in Disk Management rather than Windows Explorer and see which partition(s) are marked as active. Although I'm no expert there seems to be something badly amiss here.

My Disk Management layout:

View attachment 156632
Click to expand...

Drive X, is the ram drive
 

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theog said:
seavixen32 said:
I'm intrigued as to what's happened to your boot partition.

On a clean install Windows 7 will create a boot partition of 100Mb as the first partition on Drive C, yet yours shows as 33Mb on Drive X.

Check what's showing in Disk Management rather than Windows Explorer and see which partition(s) are marked as active. Although I'm no expert there seems to be something badly amiss here.

My Disk Management layout:

View attachment 156632
Click to expand...

Drive X, is the ram drive
Click to expand...

Thanks for that, I didn't know.

I'm not sure what a RAM drive does, but I'm assuming it speeds things up?
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP Pavilion Elite 495UK
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 870 @ 2.93GHz
Motherboard
MSI 2A9C (CPU1)
Memory
8Gb Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia GeForce GTX 460 1024MB dedicated RAM
Sound Card
Realtek HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
HP2310i
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080
Hard Drives
1x1954GB Hitachi HDS22020ALA 330 (RAID), 1x1954GB Hitachi External for backup and storage
PSU
460W
Case
HP Elite
Cooling
Air cooled
Keyboard
Logitech K750 solar-powered keyboard
Mouse
Logitech Wireless M180 mouse
Internet Speed
2Mb
Other Info
Pure Avanti Flow Internet Radio with iPod Dock, 64Gb iPod, HP USB Speakers, Sony MDR-V500 Headphones, Sony Vaio F-Series Laptop
He can't get to disk mgmt, because he can't boot windows.

Therefore he is booting win7dvd/repair repair disc.

You could try a partition undelete function.

Free partition Wiz boot disc has a good one.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html

Boot it up, do a quick scan of the whole disk - the disk that your windows partition is on.

Tick ALL the partitions you want to keep, Yes, Apply.

See if that does it.
 

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