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no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
i have an hp laptop that came installed with vista. i added a multiboot with windows xp and windows 7 and comfigured the boot to work with all 3. everything worked fine. i dont use the vista so why have it and i wanted the space it was using. i use acronis dick director installed on the windows 7 partition to delete the vista partition and distributed the free space to other partitions. rebooted and acronis stopped at 50% with some errrors but i don't think its a problem. now when i rebooted i get no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key. i used windows 7 disk to do a repair but didnt work so i used command prompt and bootrec /fixboot and /rebuildbcd that said it completed but am still getting the no bootable device. any ideas
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fdisk is not recognized in the command prompt after loading the windows 7 repair options...and i think acronis finished the deletion of the vista partition but had a problem distibuting the free space...maybe...but all my drive letters are recognized in the command prompt.
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Here is a step-by-step guide to help you through. Hope it helps.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html
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followed the step by step but the recovery options windows shows no windows os, actually nothing but i continued to command prompt and typed bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr and bootcode is successfully updated. i noticed on the c: drive where windows 7 is installed has no boot folder. still no bootable device
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i remember when i installed the xp after vista and before windows 7 install i had to copy the boot folder or something to get startup options for the 3 os's. that worked and don't know if it helps but selected to do a windows 7 install to see what partitions are available. I got disk 0 partition 1: windows 7 and disk 0 partition 2 [blank] which was xp and disk 0 unallocated space and disk 0 partition 3: music etc so the partitions are there. would it help to do a clean install of windows 7 on the unallocated space and use it too fix the problem after the install?
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looks like acronis destroyed the bootsect and the xp partition but left the unallocated space
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installed a second windows 7 on unallocated space...any ideas how i can do a repair from here?
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used the windows 7 and easybcd to fix the bootmgr, but still got the ntdlr is missing so i did the windows 7 repair again and its all working...thanks guys
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i think i got lucky having a unallocated space to install a working copy of windows 7 on it to help repair
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