OK, long story, but I've managed to change the active partition on my Windows 7 Home Premium laptop

I don't have a recover disk as it was a pre-installed system. I now get the error 'Cannot find Bootmgr' at startup, straight after the BIOS screen.

I tried using a windows 7/Vista repair disc which I created on another machine, but it didn't manage to repair it.

Is there any tool I can use to change the active partition?

Thanks guys

[Edited on 12/1/12 by Daddylonglegs]

the old way of doing it was a DOS book disk with fdisk on it... no idea how you do it nowerdays...

a quick google search found this.. http://www.pcdisk.com/

no idea if it works?

Thanks chap

Did some searching too and found this

Managed to get my lappy to boot to the eRecovery management partition so it's now going back to Pre-F****d OS state and I just need to transfer all my other stuff back to the users folder.

It's been running for awhile so I guess there's a lot of stuff to re-sort.

Here's hoping....

An alternative way that would have worked.

Using another computer download Parted Magic O.S. as an ISO file. Burn it to CD-r which will create a bootable CD. Then boot the unbootable PC from the CD and you now have the tools to change the boot partition on the PC.


Link to Parted Magic

[Edited on 12/1/12 by britishtrident]

Thanks for the input guys.

Took a while, but I managed to get it back up and running using the method in the link I put here. Seems that Acer put a small partition aside with the recovery info on it. Once I used the DOS tool to make that the active partition, it booted from it and allowed me to start over. All my non-OS data was placed under c:/backup.

Moral to this story.....

....think before you click!!

JB