Thanks for the reply sam3971! I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean about live restore disk. I only backed up the system reserved, not my whole hard drive. When I first installed windows 7 I tried both Daz and Hazar loaders and had the same issue. At the time, I had just gotten a new hd and I popped my old back in after installing 7. So I actually had two hds, each with 100mb boot partitions. Thought that might have been the original problem, but that drive is gone now and I'm having the same issue. Only loader I've ever succeeded with is the manual method I posted above.
MasterDisaster thank you for the reply as well. Just grabbed slic toolkit and I'm not totally sure how to use it yet. I did notice it says SLIC table not found, which makes sense since I backed up my original system reserved. However, it does give a certification error by the tokens.dat file sam3971 was referring to.
Manually install the the loader to the system reserved partition and after reboot check if slic is present. A screenshot of your Disk Mangement Console would also be good.
Assign Z to System Reserved Code: copy grldr Z: attrib Z:\grldr +h +s +r bootinst.exe /nt60 Z: Reboot your system and you'll be good to go.
Guys prob gone, but i will be able to use his disk management screenshot to show others what not to do. Yeah, thats his prob, the system resrved 100MB is not active, however it has no drive letter which is correct Then theres the 56GB primary which has no drive letter, but needs one (and a vol label if it doesnt have one) Worst of all, the no letter 200MB active primary can only have come from a Win 7 RC install And its hidden so he never saw it to got rid of it, prob thought his HDD was clean when installing Win 7 RTM This is a typical candidate for killdisk Killdisk in writing zeros to everything actualy gets rid of the partition table itself and only installs a single generic copy of the mbr. When using gparted from boot iso after killdisk, you cant even make new partitions until you use it to create the partition table - something I found out long ago. I would say 25% of daz loader fails are non untouched Win 7 iso's, 65% frankenstein partitioning by the user or the OEM and 15% prior activating garbage leftover. If you build your own, use a known good ISO and start from a REAL ACTUAL fresh new or zeroed HDD, the loader will not fail, even with Wat update. As a matter of fact, I have tried my best, but I dont seem to be able to make the loader fail on my own PC's
Does anyone know why I do not show "System Reserved" in my screen? IDK if it is bad or anything I am just curious.