Disk 0 Missing - still booting into Windows 7!?!?!
Hi peeps, really weird thing going on ever since I formatted a removable disk which I used disk part to do as a backdoor as all other methods failed me. Basically, I am on my Windows 7 laptop, running off a single 500Gb hard drive that appears in Device Manager, i can obviousely boot from it, does not appear in storage management and does not appear in disk part utility. I can not select it either. Really puzzles me, I have say 4 drives on it. I can install things fine, and remove them (software and hardware) All my drives appear in explorer, just not disk manager. Go figure! (please do, its driving me round the bend!)Life is just one big learning curve, lets skate on knowledge
July 15th, 2010 10:28pm

You don't tell us what options you have now and from where you posted this message. Your problem is easy to solve, provided you have right knowledge and tools. 1. fdisk /mbr will not help. This worked for systems released before Vista 2. You can create Windows 7 disk from an ISO image. I believe (but didn't test it) that you can use even evaluation edition of Windows 7 to fix your boot environment. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx Once you boot with Windows 7 instalaltion media, you may: Start in repair mode Choose Command Prompt from recovery options Run diskpart . The sequence of commands below will mark {Disk0/Partition} 1 as Active. select disk 0 select partition 1 active Run bootrec with /FixMbr /FixBoot /RebuildBcd 3. You may repair your system even without Windows 7 installation media. However, this approach requires more skill. You may download and install - Windows AIK for Windows 7 - MDT 2010 (otional) You may install the software above even on a previous version OS, for example Windows XP. Build Windows PE media Boot your system with Windows PE media. run diskpart as described above. run bootsect command. For examlpe: bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr run bcdboot command. For example: bcdboot c:\windows For More Information and help related to windows 7 problems
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July 16th, 2010 12:43pm

You don't tell us what options you have now and from where you posted this message. Your problem is easy to solve, provided you have right knowledge and tools. 1. fdisk /mbr will not help. This worked for systems released before Vista 2. You can create Windows 7 disk from an ISO image. I believe (but didn't test it) that you can use even evaluation edition of Windows 7 to fix your boot environment. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx Once you boot with Windows 7 instalaltion media, you may: Start in repair mode Choose Command Prompt from recovery options Run diskpart . The sequence of commands below will mark {Disk0/Partition} 1 as Active. select disk 0 select partition 1 active Run bootrec with /FixMbr /FixBoot /RebuildBcd 3. You may repair your system even without Windows 7 installation media. However, this approach requires more skill. You may download and install - Windows AIK for Windows 7 - MDT 2010 (otional) You may install the software above even on a previous version OS, for example Windows XP. Build Windows PE media Boot your system with Windows PE media. run diskpart as described above. run bootsect command. For examlpe: bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr run bcdboot command. For example: bcdboot c:\windows For More Information and help related to windows 7 problems I dont think you even read my first post? I never used fdisk I used diskpart. I am able to run Windows 7 off of the drive that is missing from disk management. All the partitions that are on the missing drive I can see and access in explorer. The physicle disk is in device manager.Life is just one big learning curve, lets skate on knowledge
July 16th, 2010 1:38pm

thank you so much! Ill give them ago!Life is just one big learning curve, lets skate on knowledge
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July 17th, 2010 12:18pm

right, i have fixed it! so happens something i downloaded had a malware attached. I noticed something wrong when clicking something on google would direct through nnkcw or something like that. So I googled it in private browsing which came up with a someone else with the same problem as me...exactly the same! Cant look in the history to the website because it was private browsing...however the tools i used was firstly TDSSKiller and then secondly conbofix. So now i dont have any viruses and i have my partitions back! woopwoop. Thanks for your help though... Peace out O/Life is just one big learning curve, lets skate on knowledge
July 18th, 2010 8:38pm

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