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I had some issues with my system drive on my main PC, and to cut a long story short I lost the system partition on my main drive. The actual partition that had vista on it (i.e. C:\Windows\) is still there, but the boot partition (that calls itself System) is gone... or more precisely is showing up as raw formatted. I opened it up with a partition tool and it is just jargon. The entire partition looks as if it's been fried.
The original message that was shown was "Operating system not found."
I tried the Vista CD's startup repair tool and the whole "bootrec /fixboot" routine to no avail. The system repair doesn't recognise that I even have Windows installed and bootrec just fails.
I looked in my C drive (mounted using a USB controller) and found that C:\Boot was missing. I recreated the drive and copied the directory across from another Vista machine. I also formatted the system partition (the one that broke) as NTFS, then copied the contents of another machine's system partition to it.
Now I get the error:
BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
I assume that it's now found the operating system but it just can't boot it, so I've tried the repair stuff again, but they just don't work. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Burningmace
The original message that was shown was "Operating system not found."
I tried the Vista CD's startup repair tool and the whole "bootrec /fixboot" routine to no avail. The system repair doesn't recognise that I even have Windows installed and bootrec just fails.
I looked in my C drive (mounted using a USB controller) and found that C:\Boot was missing. I recreated the drive and copied the directory across from another Vista machine. I also formatted the system partition (the one that broke) as NTFS, then copied the contents of another machine's system partition to it.
Now I get the error:
BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
I assume that it's now found the operating system but it just can't boot it, so I've tried the repair stuff again, but they just don't work. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Burningmace
