Boot drive no longer found
Home built system on an ASRock H77M motherboard. Windows 7 64 bit, Using a 3TB hard drive as the boot drive partitioned with GPT and all 3TB were available. System also had 3 other drives for storage which consisted of 2, 1TB drives, and a 80GB drive. There is also a DVD RW drive. System was running great until one of the 1TB drives went bad. System continued to run when the 1TB drive went bad and was taken offline by the Intel drive utility. The trouble started when I rebooted the machine. After the reboot the boot drive can no longer be found or it is no longer booting from the drive. The bios sees the 3TB drive and I am able to select it as the 1st boot device but the system just won't boot from the drive any longer. *****NOTE***** I am thinking some of the GPT partition information was on the 1TB hard drive that went bad. I remember seeing the smaller partitions one sees when creating a GPT drive on a drive other than the 3TB drive after getting the system up and running. Is there anyway to recover or recreate the smaller GPT partitions without having to do a complete reinstall? Regards, Fred Schulz
February 12th, 2013 4:41am

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February 12th, 2013 4:00pm

Hi Fred Schulz, Hows everything going? Please feel free to give me any update. Thank you for your cooperation. Regards, Leo Huang TechNet Subscriber Support If you are TechNet Subscription user and have any feedback on our support quality, please send your feedback here.Leo Huang TechNet Community Support
February 21st, 2013 3:25am

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February 25th, 2013 8:31pm

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