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Missing Boot Partition

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  • Started 5 months ago by geek860
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geek860
Posts: 7

I have figured out why my laptop was giving me the 'NTLDR Not Found' error - there's no boot partition anymore. I have a disk image copy on an older drive which I can use as a fresh source to copy data if need be, but I'd like to try and rescue my bigger drive.

If you look at my screenshot you will see my old, working drive with the vista partition labelled boot, etc. Below that is the drive I'm trying to rescue. Note the lack of a boot partition.

How can I restore boot properties to the partition? I have no idea how they got wiped.

Thanks

Posted 5 months ago #
 
ScottW
ScottW
Posts: 2480

geek860, I saw from your other thread that you might have a missing or corrupted MBR. Did you correct that? Here are the instructions for Vista to run FIXMBR and some other boot fix-up tools from Windows RE:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Posted 5 months ago #
 
geek860
Posts: 7

I'll give this a try. Thanks.

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