- Apr 6, 2011
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My Win7 Ult x64 system got hung - so I cold booted. Upon reboot - I saw this message: "reboot and select proper boot device..."
I tried to do a recovery with my Repair disk - but after selecting Keyboard, no Windows installation was detected.
I booted from a Hirens CD to see if my data was present - it was.
After chasing existing answers and poking around myself, I corrected an issue with 2 partitions on two different disks marked as: Active. I left my un-named 100MB partition in Disk 0 as: System, Active & Primary; and the second partition on Drive 0 (my Win7 Ult x64 installation) as: Boot, Page File, Crash Dump & Primary. Both partitions are "Healthy". There are no other partitions on Drive 0. Drive 0 is 2TB in size.
I started to reboot from my Hirens disk again, but instead of booting an OS from the CD (Mini XP, etc.) I selected the top option - to boot from MY HD into Windows 7 - it loaded up and booted perfectly! I can boot this way consistently without fail.
I suspect that there is an issue with the first partition on Disk 0 (Active 100MB) that is preventing my machine from starting properly - but I'm at a loss as to how to fix / access it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I tried to do a recovery with my Repair disk - but after selecting Keyboard, no Windows installation was detected.
I booted from a Hirens CD to see if my data was present - it was.
After chasing existing answers and poking around myself, I corrected an issue with 2 partitions on two different disks marked as: Active. I left my un-named 100MB partition in Disk 0 as: System, Active & Primary; and the second partition on Drive 0 (my Win7 Ult x64 installation) as: Boot, Page File, Crash Dump & Primary. Both partitions are "Healthy". There are no other partitions on Drive 0. Drive 0 is 2TB in size.
I started to reboot from my Hirens disk again, but instead of booting an OS from the CD (Mini XP, etc.) I selected the top option - to boot from MY HD into Windows 7 - it loaded up and booted perfectly! I can boot this way consistently without fail.
I suspect that there is an issue with the first partition on Disk 0 (Active 100MB) that is preventing my machine from starting properly - but I'm at a loss as to how to fix / access it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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