Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 12/1/12 at 09:03 PM |
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O/T - Laptop Issues
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]
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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AntonUK
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| posted on 12/1/12 at 09:24 PM |
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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?
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 12/1/12 at 09:32 PM |
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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....
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britishtrident
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| posted on 12/1/12 at 10:09 PM |
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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]
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 13/1/12 at 09:25 AM |
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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
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