Recent content by hmm

You may be right. /rebuildbcd detected 0 Windows installations so that did not work. It seems that when I expanded the Win7 into the formatted Vista partition, I got screwed up. Time to reinstall everything.

I've done those commands without success. bootrec /fixboot outputs "The volume does not contain a recognized file system" I might just have to do what I did not want to do: fresh install.

Don't you mean getting worse?

Startup repair could not detect a problem. d:\ is now the DVD drive, bcdboot doesn't work bcdedit shows that the device partition=C : path \windows\system32\winload.exe osdevice partition=C:

After POST, I just get a blinking underscore. Cannot boot into anything.

No. After the format, I booted into Win 7 fine after running "bcdboot D:\windows" in the repair console. It was only after I merged the two partitions (changing the Win7 partition to C:\) that this started.

Repair says that everything is a-okay. After POST, I am getting a flashing underscore.

I've been running a dual boot of Vista and Win 7 on a 190gb (C:\) and 30gb (D:\) partition quite well for a few months. I decided to get rid of the Vista partition and reclaim the space. So, I used Acronis to format the Vista partition, which then rebooted and then I used the Win 7 CD recovery...