Hi, I accidently deleted the Windows 7 Recovery Partition or Windows 7 System Reserved Partition, that one who takes 100MB storage. There is a topic on it on the website : http[://]www[.]mydigitallife[.]info/2009/08/20/hack-to-remove-100-mb-system-reserved-partition-when-installing-windows-7/ Here is how I did : I launched Command Promp on the Windows 7 DVD at the startup I launched DiskPart I executed following commands : Code: list disk select disk 0 list partition select partition 0 delete partition exit exit Now, I cannot boot on the hard drive anymore, but only on the Windows 7 DVD and the "Startup Repair" tools doesn't work. I there any way to get back this small partition or to get into the installed Windows ? I want to reinstal windows but I forgot to make backups of my files so I need to get back into the installed Windows. Thanks a lot for your help ! PS: Please, I don't speak very well english so ask for precisions if you don't understand what I mean
I tryed 2 quick recovery solutions, "Rebuild MBR" and "Partition Recovery Wizard" for unallocated space only, but it didn't succeed. I'm trying now a full scan of the entire disk into the "Partition Recovery Wizard". Hope it will be good... There is also a "Rebuild boot.ini" option, must I try ? Is there any other solution ? Via command promp for instance ?
If you can afford it, remove the sys. partition forever by reinstalling. By sacrificing minor features, this solves a lot of problems for the future.
You might try cmd options from win7 startup disc bootsect.exe /nt60 /force The cmd options are under the other repair options on the disk.
So, as expected, the Recovery Wizard didn't succeed. It is what I intended to do when I accidently deleted the sys. partition. Thank you, I will try ! I have to wait because I'm copying the entire partition to another drive to be shure to not loose all my data.
To close this subject, the command didn't work and I'm actually trying to reinstall Windows 7. But really not lucky at this time because I get another problem I will open a new topic to explain it. Thank you for your help on this issue...