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Problem solved: restored entire disk from image (via NovaBackup). Basically, Aoemi Partition Home scrambled the Win7 partition and left it as a non-system partition, even though all the files are still there. Lession learned, don't mess around with partitions on a dual boot machine.

He said it was the Aoemi Partition Assistant home (free) version. I guess we could download to the XP partition and see if it can "fix" the paritition from there. No partition was removed, he was just trying to allocate some unused space from the XP partition to the Win7 partition. Startup...

Yup, the Win7 files are apparently still there. I was able to copy all files from the partition into a folder on an external USB drive, so no data would be lost if a clean installed is required. In dual boot, the older operating system has to be installed first. So the drive has XP up front...

Here we go: PC is a dual boot WinXP32/Win7x64. Son in law made the mistake of trying to repartition the hard drive to move some free space on the XP partition to the Windows 7 partition. The end result is that the XP boots up and runs fine, but Windows 7 will not boot up. When you look at the...