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Solved it!
My encrypted storage disk had a higher boot priority than my system disk in BIOS.
(it's marked active as well... don't know if it always was)
Though this never seems to have been a problem before... it became one when hitting the "install bootloader" button.
Vista / 7 boot again... yet, Linux's broken now. Gives me only a "grub>" prompt
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Now it happened. :|
I installed Ubuntu and followed your guide here.
Ubuntu - EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
Step 2 in the second paragraph proposed to write the Win 7 bootloader in the MBR.
Now after restart I only get "Missing operating system".
System is a RAID drive.
Drive boots from Vista partition
I used Win7 to make the change with EasyBCD
EasyBCD complained that it couldn't load the boot info automatically.
So I pointed it to the \boot\ dir manually.
- I can enter WinXP through a UBCD4win Boot CD (easyBCD won't start though)
- I can enter Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Live CD
With the WinXp Boot CD I can run bcdedit.exe from the EasyBCD dir... but it says: "The boot configurator data store could not be opened"
Might try the other exes in there:
bcdboot.exe
bcdedit.exe
BootGrabber.exe
bootpart.exe
bootsect.exe
contig.exe
grubinst.exe
But I don't want to worse things... :-/
Hum... What now? Try to repair the bootloader with the Win7 DVD?
Addendum:
Tried this repair guide: Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
> OK
x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force
> OK
del C:\boot\bcd
> The "BCD" file wasn't there any more (had been still there one hour ago? Made a backup though)
edit: I was still there but hidden, del couldn't find it... renamed it
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
> Found 2 OS:
P:\Windows
N:\Windows
add? Yes
"The volume does not contain a recognized file system."
This FAQ claimed this error rises from
the windows partition not being active. It is active and I set it again to active with diskpart.
Still the error stays.
Solved it!
My encrypted storage disk had a higher boot priority than my system disk in BIOS.
(it's marked active as well... don't know if it always was)
Though this never seems to have been a problem before... it became one when hitting the "install bootloader" button.
Vista / 7 boot again... yet, Linux's broken now. Gives me only a "grub>" prompt
=========================================
Now it happened. :|
I installed Ubuntu and followed your guide here.
Ubuntu - EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
Step 2 in the second paragraph proposed to write the Win 7 bootloader in the MBR.
Now after restart I only get "Missing operating system".
System is a RAID drive.
Drive boots from Vista partition
I used Win7 to make the change with EasyBCD
EasyBCD complained that it couldn't load the boot info automatically.
So I pointed it to the \boot\ dir manually.
- I can enter WinXP through a UBCD4win Boot CD (easyBCD won't start though)
- I can enter Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Live CD
With the WinXp Boot CD I can run bcdedit.exe from the EasyBCD dir... but it says: "The boot configurator data store could not be opened"
Might try the other exes in there:
bcdboot.exe
bcdedit.exe
BootGrabber.exe
bootpart.exe
bootsect.exe
contig.exe
grubinst.exe
But I don't want to worse things... :-/
Hum... What now? Try to repair the bootloader with the Win7 DVD?
Addendum:
Tried this repair guide: Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
> OK
x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force
> OK
del C:\boot\bcd
> The "BCD" file wasn't there any more (had been still there one hour ago? Made a backup though)
edit: I was still there but hidden, del couldn't find it... renamed it
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
> Found 2 OS:
P:\Windows
N:\Windows
add? Yes
"The volume does not contain a recognized file system."
This FAQ claimed this error rises from
the windows partition not being active. It is active and I set it again to active with diskpart.
Still the error stays.
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