Massive problem after Partitioning C: Drive
 

I partitioned my drive the usual way (Right click on - my computer - etc)

I went to re-boot and got the -BOOTMGR, press ctl alt dlt to restart- error

Basically, I made a small crappy partition, which did not even name or assign a letter to, and the computer decides that it is a good idea to boot up with that one instead of the C: Drive which my OS is intstalled on causing this error.

I basically need to now how I can get it back to normal (And no I have never made a system restore point, but i have learned the lesson now). I need to know how to boot up using C again, and then how to delete this hellspawned partition.

I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING IT BECAUSE ASUS HAS THEIR OWN BIOS AND I CAN ONLY SELECT TO BOOT FROM THE HD NOT DIFFERENT PARTITONS, ALL THE DATA IS STILL THERE, I JUST CANT GET IT TO BOOT THE C DRIVE BY DEFAULT!!!!!!!!!!!

The windows 7 64bit disk is in the drive, I have tried repair, system restore, and going to install windows where i can neither delete or format the partition.

I'm tearing my hair out here on this stupid Mac I am forced to use. lol. Whoever can help me will be in my eternal gratitude!!!

If you do reply please give DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS!!! This is the dark side of the PC that I have never ventured to before apart from one time before this to overclock my CPU. Act like I'm an 8 year old.

Specs: Asus motherboard (Brand new one with fancy BIOS), 16Gb ram, GTX 580 3GB, 1000W power supply, i7 2600k overclocked to 4.4Ghz

THANKS!!!!!!!

TBD

If you are prevented from doing a fresh install, I think I would try a fresh install of a previous OS, and creating the partition at that time. Then going to a fresh Win7 install retaining the partition...there may be other options to save your system, but I cannot help with that.

Go into the BIOS and select the partition with windows on to boot from.

The little partition you trying to remove, includes the Windows Bootloader, so its a bad Idea.

So you should use Bootrec.exe for the first repair attempt
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

if this not work you should use TESTDISK (If TESTDISK doesn't do the trick, bye bye Data ;))
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

you could try a program called g-parted to get rid of the new partition. Then once you've done that try booting.

if that doesn't work, you could try the windows repair disc again.

no need to lose all your data though. if you've got another pc/laptop handy you could plug that hard drive into it and access it from within the OS of the other pc to recover data you want to keep, then reformat and install windows fresh.

what he said

That's what I would try too. If you've overclocked by adjusting settings in your bios before then you probably know how to get into it at startup (by pressing delete or some such thing). In your bios you should find some boot priority settings that will hopefully allow you select the partition you have Windows installed on as the first boot device.

While I'm here, have you considered not partitioning at all and using separate drives instead? Physical hard-drives and even the smaller SSD's aren't as expensive as they used to be and using them can provide more storage, performance and data safety benefits than partitioning. If you have a choice in the matter I'd say that'd be the way to go.

I can't because I don't no how to get to the blue screen BIOS with asus. With that I can only select to boot the Hard Drive or DVD, not individual partitions

Thanks for the suggestions, but how am I supposed to download programs if I can't boot my C drive, it gets to the loading screen, and before the windows screen i get BootMGR. Is the little partition that important, I just made it?? I dont care about deleting it. I just want to load my C drive, all the stuff is still there.

Again, good advice but how am I supposed to download a program if I cant access my C: drive OS

I have 16 HD slots, I was just experimenting, seemed harmless at the time :L

Keep pressing "delete" rapidly on start up


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I have 16 HD slots, I was just experimenting, seemed harmless at the time :L


Install win 7 on one of them...you will be able then to access files from the original install...and Win 7 will also write a new boot for the original install, but it will now be "D"...any way, you should not loose anything, and you will need to get rid of one of them because of product registration.

Download the program on the PC you're using to talk to us. Then make it a bootable CD/DVD and stick it in your broken PC.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operat...txprepair1.htm

I've been through similar what you are experiencing. The link above explains everything you need to do. Read it carefully.

The crux of it is this. Boot from your XP disk. When you get to the blue screen menus, you will be doing a repair of XP. But do not press R or select the second bullet, "recovery console" option (pic at slide 4 /10 from link above to see what I'm talking about). You want to pick the top bullet, "To set up window xp now". Then at slide 5/10 say "yes" to the end user agreement. Then slide 6/10 you should see your C drive in the option box. If it is not there, then stop. Something is wrong.

My advice is free, so assume at your own risk;)

Addition:
- to boot from the disk, you need to go into the bios and set it up to boot from the DVD drive.
- after you have repaired XP, you need to go back in the bios and set it up to boot from C drive again.

Thanks, Fixed!

So finally The Black Death meets The Blue Screen of Death and defeats him!

Cool :) Look at the date ..

Your problem seems to be messed up... I don't trust repairing windows

Solution no1: There is project called Grub4dos. You see when u load windows from hard drive it will load from hdd0 wich will be the very first partition on your hard drive, if You have more than one system installed it's becoming messy because u have to edit boot.ini file and write information into MBR of hard drive to boot theme in proper order. In Your case u will have to download Grub4dos on let's say USB, boot up from USB and edit boot.ini and partition names. This way u will be able to recover any lost files if any, because You probably used part of drive C to create new partition so this part of hard drive belonged ealier to drive C(some data could be lost). Unfortunately windows always boots up from very first partition of very first hard drive ...

Solution no2: create live cd of Linux ubuntu, boot it up from USB or cd, copy and back up files from whatever partition u want. Use disk managmest software to repair ur partition status, make sure u got everything backed up, format partitions and just install fresh windows...