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mulalo357

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Hi. I have got serious problem with my other hard drive, with OS Win7. The first hard drive working quite well with WinXP. The problem started when i was doing Partitioning. It started to do Startup repair repeatedly without starting. I was directed to a certain website about "How to Fix Windows 7 When It Fails to Boot" of which i think it was very much helpful, i followed all those steps (bootrec.exe /FixMbr, bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd, DiskPart, etc using Command Prompt) and at the end the results was BOOTMGR is missing, now press ctrl-alt-del, when i press it cant even start Win7 at all. When i run CMOS Setup Utility/BIOS it seems like it is not there in the setup configuration, it is not recognised by the system. When i boot with WinXP, all the files are still intact. Thats why now i am starting to Save all those files in the OS WinXP. But i really dont know whats happening to my computer. Please help. Peter.
 
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mulalo357 said:
Hi. I have got serious problem with my other hard drive, with OS Win7. The first hard drive working quite well with WinXP. The problem started when i was doing Partitioning. It started to do Startup repair repeatedly without starting. I was directed to a certain website about "How to Fix Windows 7 When It Fails to Boot" of which i think it was very much helpful, i followed all those steps (bootrec.exe /FixMbr, bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd, DiskPart, etc using Command Prompt) and at the end the results was BOOTMGR is missing, now press ctrl-alt-del, when i press it cant even start Win7 at all. When i run CMOS Setup Utility/BIOS it seems like it is not there in the setup configuration, it is not recognised by the system. When i boot with WinXP, all the files are still intact. Thats why now i am starting to Save all those files in the OS WinXP. But i really dont know whats happening to my computer. Please help. Peter.
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So please clarify

You have two hard drives but only one has an issue.

The HDD with an issue has Windows 7 on it.

You cannot boot or load into Windows 7 on that HDD?


If this is correct, please disconnect all other HDD except the one with an issue and boot from the WIndows 7 DVD. Use the repair installation function from there.
 
Bet the boot files are on the XP drive. When he started fooling around with the partition and doing a start up repair it screwed up the boot files for 7.
 
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