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It always works for me - I did it just the day before yesterday on my own system.
You should be able to boot straight back into windows.
You might find you need to download a couple of the most recent updates -depends how recent those backup hives are. It will take you back to the time the backup hives were updated - a few days, probably.
Never come across that before.
Unless you have already begun some kind of reinstall proces and deleted everything already.
Looks like the partition table is damaged.
First you could try and recover the partitions.
It worth a go as it is free and quick .
Download Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly to manage partition. boot it up, select Partition Recovery,select Full Disk, do a Quick Scan, Tick ALL the partitions you want keep and click APPLY.
If that works - you will be exactly as you were before the incident.
If it doesn't, then you will have to try a custom install - but if the windows7 installer only sees that one partition ( c) and the rest as raw/unallocated then not sure you will be able to save anything into Windows.old.
You might be able to reinstall onto that one partition ( if it's big enough ) , then recover the others - and get your data that way.
Ok, I tried but it doesnīt seem to be working.
The thing is whit the PARTITION WIZARD, it finds two partitions, but both are c: as I didnīt have any other partitions in my disk. Everything was on c:
And it show it divided in two parts, a small one which sais "sistem reserved" and a big big one, with all 1340 gb of the disk, when I select both, I have only a FINISH button, and thatīs it, it doesnt seem like anything has happened,
Am I making any mistake here?
thanks
Last edited by casiopea; 27 Mar 2011 at 14:08.
Tick both , click Finish, click APPLY at the top left of the main window.
Assuming it recovers them - you will be fine - should be able to boot back in.
[ If the APPLY button is greyed out - then those partitions already exist.
If that is the case - go ahead and do a custom install - but don't format the partitions - that should save most of your data into a folder called Windows .old. You can then copy it back after the windows 7 reinstall is complete. You will have some setting up and reinstalling of programs to do.]
ok,. so apply button is indeed greyed out.
so now I come with a few last questions before you start to hate me,
first, when Iīm running the recovery boot cd, in the step when it tries to find the operating system, it finds WIN7 on a disc E:, not in C:, and it sais PARTITION SIZE 0 MB
That looks strange for me, is it?
then, when I try to do the notepad step you mentioned, I have this options
C: SYSTEM RESERVED which only have a temp folder, and sais 70 mb free of 99 mb
D: LOCAL DISK , says nothing about space, and canīt access it
X: BOOT 28.9 mb free of 31.4 mb
I donīt know if this clears anything else up for you.
Anyway, as I see, I will have to do a custom install. Hope it works.
Just a last question, will I have to reinstall ALL the programs and drivers, or is there any chance of not losing some of that information. Just to be aware.
thanks again, and again, for your help and patience
7 will install it's own drivers.
You will need to reinstall all programs ( except those that don't need installers and run as executables )