- May 11, 2013
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So, I just finished building my brand new rig on 7/12 and of course 4 days later managed to mess things up somehow.
I have a 2 drive setup.
C:A Samsung SSD with my Windows 7 operating system. This was my boot drive.
F:A 2TB Seagate that I was using for all my storage needs.
Now, I haven't used Windows in a while so I consider myself a newbie. Just yesterday I wiped my Seagate in an attempt to extend my C drive into it. Only to stupidly realize as soon as I had done it, that you can't extend one physical drive into a separate physical drive. I believe this is the source of whatever problems I'm facing now. Maybe I set my boot drive to dynamic at some point. Or screwed up something on my C drive within Disk Management.
I used my computer after all this though. I restarted it last night and it was fine. Then I left it on for the night to download something and went to bed. Came back in the morning, used it for a little while, then I had to restart it for a installation. A trusted program, I know this program has nothing to do with the problem. So i restart it and suddenly rather than seeing my boot screen, I see BOOTMGR is Missing. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE TO RESTART.
Now I can't start my computer, I go into BIOS and see my SSD and HDD.
I have tried using System Recovery from the windows disk and got the following message "System Recovery Option is not compatible with the version of windows you are trying to repair. I'm using the exact same disk I used to install Windows in the first place just days ago. Why is this happening? I updated Windows at some point maybe?
I've unplugged and replugged my SSD and HDD. Even gave them time to sit before reattaching.
I'm at a loss. I don't really know what to do. Any help would be a appreciated.
I have a 2 drive setup.
C:A Samsung SSD with my Windows 7 operating system. This was my boot drive.
F:A 2TB Seagate that I was using for all my storage needs.
Now, I haven't used Windows in a while so I consider myself a newbie. Just yesterday I wiped my Seagate in an attempt to extend my C drive into it. Only to stupidly realize as soon as I had done it, that you can't extend one physical drive into a separate physical drive. I believe this is the source of whatever problems I'm facing now. Maybe I set my boot drive to dynamic at some point. Or screwed up something on my C drive within Disk Management.
I used my computer after all this though. I restarted it last night and it was fine. Then I left it on for the night to download something and went to bed. Came back in the morning, used it for a little while, then I had to restart it for a installation. A trusted program, I know this program has nothing to do with the problem. So i restart it and suddenly rather than seeing my boot screen, I see BOOTMGR is Missing. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE TO RESTART.
Now I can't start my computer, I go into BIOS and see my SSD and HDD.
I have tried using System Recovery from the windows disk and got the following message "System Recovery Option is not compatible with the version of windows you are trying to repair. I'm using the exact same disk I used to install Windows in the first place just days ago. Why is this happening? I updated Windows at some point maybe?
I've unplugged and replugged my SSD and HDD. Even gave them time to sit before reattaching.
I'm at a loss. I don't really know what to do. Any help would be a appreciated.
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