How would you do this

Backup image

 

If I were to post a thread about it I'd start with a title that wasn't total crap.
Then, if I were to post a screenshot, I'd do one that wasn't a 640x360px JPEG for 317x217px of content.

And finally, if I wanted to add a boot entry for w:\windows to the boot manager on the current boot partition, I'd run this:

Code:

bcdboot.exe w:\windows

And if my boot manager was on partition s:\, I'd run this:

Code:

bcdboot.exe w:\windows /s s:

 

Hello lobo11 - I didn't fully understand the problem until I read post #4. Did you try using diskpart to mark the partition as "active"? Example:

list disk
select disk 0 (if zero is the correct disk)
list partition
select partition 1 (if that's the partition)
active
exit

Or you could try using Gparted to set a boot flag on the partition; same result as using diskpart.

 

First I would create a disk image of the drive in question using Ghost ( which is on "Hiren's boot DVD 15.2 restored" ).
Then I would try another utility on the same boot DVD called "Smart Partition Recovery".
If that did not work I would try yet another recovery utility on the same DVD ( There are about a dozen ) and keep going until I succeeded.

 

You are welcome...
But be careful and double check everything before you execute, Forever wiping your data can be just a mouse click away ( which is why I always Ghost first ).