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I seemed to make a big breakthrough on this yesterday, in that I changed the boot order in the BIOS to DVD > HDD > HDD (I think it was HDD > DVD > HDD before) and suddenly the testdisk partition table repair seemed to "stick" and windows recovery then had something to work with. All was heading...

Further info: a complete surface scan of the disk with SmartControl ran fine with no errors reported. The disk is physically fine, but there is a problem with the partition table which either testdisk is not resolving properly, or keeps getting corrupted at the boot stage, perhaps by a virus...

A bit more info: testdisk also reports that there are hidden sectors on the disk: Disk /dev/sda - 750 GB / 698 GB - ATA WDC WD7500AACS - 0 Hidden sectors are present. size 1465147055 sectors user_max 1465147055 sectors dco 1465149168 sectors Not sure...

Further info: when I run testdisk, the first message encountered reads "partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55"

I am having a lot of trouble with Windows 7 booting. Here are some details: - single hdd machine (750GB); single partition - Win7 64bit home edition - I am getting the disk boot failure message on boot (nothing in particular changed) - booting from the win CD, repair seems to run ok but...