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I had Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed, but since I never used Ubuntu and it used 130GB of space I decided to delete it. I deleted two partitions and completely wiped the one with the data. The other one - which I believe had the startup - wasn't wiped. By the way, my CD drive doesn't work.
At first I got "error: no such partition" in GRUB. Eventually I managed to put the Windows Recovery Disk on a USB stick and made it bootable using PowerISO. Windows Repair couldn't fix the problem automatically.
I then read some forums and asked somewhere else and they said to download GParted and put that on a USB stick, boot from it, and edit my partitions there. I downloaded GParted and tried to set it up the same exact way I got Windows Repair to work (with PowerISO), but it didn't work.
I formatted it as FAT, FAT32 and NTFS (but exFAT didn't work, that's the only one I haven't tried). I tried a program they recommended called Tuxboot, too, but that didn't work. I always got "error: no such partition". I've tried all the USB slots.
How can I recover the Windows 7 boot partition?
Jamie
Posted 2011-12-29T05:04:43.267
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1What you need to do is restore the MBR. – Simon Sheehan – 2011-12-29T05:07:06.847
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Thank you sweet prince IT WORKED JESUS ALMIGHTY after eight hours. I googled that and followed these instructions: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html and they worked. Apparently I visited that link 5 hours ago too but closed it lol. Thank you!
– Jamie – 2011-12-29T05:29:49.6701
If no one puts the above comments in Answer form below I'm totally stealing it as per: http://meta.serverfault.com/a/1931/9770 =)
– Wesley – 2011-12-29T05:41:44.763@Jamie, post the solution as an answer to this question! :) – iglvzx – 2011-12-29T05:42:25.027
2@Jamie, you can post your solution as an answer. By doing so, we can upvote it and you can accept it (after two days) so that it no longer appears to be an unanswered question. – bwDraco – 2011-12-29T05:43:54.463