I could really use some help. I've been troubleshooting this problem for several hours now and don't know what to do.
I had Windows 7 installed on a laptop. It has one drive. I shrank the volume size and created some free space for Ubuntu. I then made a serious mistake #1 when I was done with Ubuntu. I booted into Windows and deleted the partition it was on, making it allocated space. I then expanded my Windows partition to regain the space.
Upon rebooting the system GRUB wasn't there, but a "grub rescue>" prompt certainly was. Looking for a quick fix I made serious mistake #2, I googled quickly and ran some commands like these that I found in a random youtube video:
This didn't work for me. So I used a Windows 7 recovery disk. I tried quite a few things:
and
This hasn't worked either. What did happen is the "grub rescue>" prompt went away and I got a bootmgr is missing message. I did some more messing around and now that message is gone, but all my system does is endlessly boot into system recovery.
System recovery finds my Windows 7 operating system, sometimes its on the wrong drive though. D instead of C: My System Reserved partition is assigned a drive letter. DISKPART is sometimes contradictory to what drive System Recovery says my Windows installation is on. I've attempted to remove the drive letter from the System Reserved partition and change the Windows partition back to C:, but the changes never seem to save.
After system recovery tries its automatic attempt to fix, there is a link to run advanced utilities, which brings you to the screen that allows system restore, system image recovery, command prompt, etc. It asks me for my username and password before letting me continue and at the command prompt all my files of my windows installation are there albeit on the wrong drive letter and unbootable.
From DISKPART here is where I stand:
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I had Windows 7 installed on a laptop. It has one drive. I shrank the volume size and created some free space for Ubuntu. I then made a serious mistake #1 when I was done with Ubuntu. I booted into Windows and deleted the partition it was on, making it allocated space. I then expanded my Windows partition to regain the space.
Upon rebooting the system GRUB wasn't there, but a "grub rescue>" prompt certainly was. Looking for a quick fix I made serious mistake #2, I googled quickly and ran some commands like these that I found in a random youtube video:
Code:
set boot=(hd0,msdos6)
set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub
insmod normal
normal
This didn't work for me. So I used a Windows 7 recovery disk. I tried quite a few things:
Code:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd
and
Code:
bcdedit /set {default} device partition=c:
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=c:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device partition=c:
This hasn't worked either. What did happen is the "grub rescue>" prompt went away and I got a bootmgr is missing message. I did some more messing around and now that message is gone, but all my system does is endlessly boot into system recovery.
System recovery finds my Windows 7 operating system, sometimes its on the wrong drive though. D instead of C: My System Reserved partition is assigned a drive letter. DISKPART is sometimes contradictory to what drive System Recovery says my Windows installation is on. I've attempted to remove the drive letter from the System Reserved partition and change the Windows partition back to C:, but the changes never seem to save.
After system recovery tries its automatic attempt to fix, there is a link to run advanced utilities, which brings you to the screen that allows system restore, system image recovery, command prompt, etc. It asks me for my username and password before letting me continue and at the command prompt all my files of my windows installation are there albeit on the wrong drive letter and unbootable.
From DISKPART here is where I stand:
Code:
One disk, Disk 0
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy
Volume 1 D NTFS Partition 74 GB Healthy
Partition #### Type Size Offset
-------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 74 GB 101 MB
Detail Volume 0
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : Yes
Volume Capacity : 99 MB
Volume Free Space : 71 MB
Partition 1
Type : 07
Hidden : No
Active : Yes
Offset in Bytes: 1048576
Detail Volume 1
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : Yes
Volume Capacity : 74 GB
Volume Free Space : 35 GB
Partition 2
Type : 07
Hidden : No
Active : No
Offset in Bytes: 105906176
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!