Bootmgr Win7/Vista Dual Boot Partition Dickery

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#1

Okay so, I use 2 partitions, one for vista, which came with my computer, and the other for win7. So one day I decide my win7 partition is too small, so I go dick around in the partition thing, but I accidently(not accidently at all!) made my win7 partition my primary one.
Okay so thats good let me just restart the computer and
Oops the win7 partition has no bootmanager. Turns out it installed its bootmgr somewhere in the VISTA partition and that kinda stuff.

Now when I try to boot, it gives me a nice COULDN’T LOCATE BOOTMGR message.

So I think there are 2 solutions for this one

Solution 1
Setting the primary(active) partition back to the vista one.

I’d like to do this. I only have access to BIOS and a win7 repair disk I burned (doesn’t repair very well) that comes with the command console. I’d wager there is some command trickery that would allow me to change partition stuff. I’d like to know if that exists.

Solution 2
Creating a bootmgr for the Win7 partition.

I tried to do this. I got all these bootdongs /fixshit commands from google. They didn’t really work, and the drive letters are flipped, win7 drive used to be Z: and now its C:? and C: is D:? what is going on i am confus. So some step by step instructions would be nice (i can get to the console fine, thank you)

why am i asking this here?
help computer literate people

#2

Hello thanks for all the help guys but I figured it out.

diskpart
select disk x
list partition
select partition x
active

supa easy

#3

Glad you solved your own problem! I was going to suggest inserting the Win7 cd, as far as I know there is a utility on there to repair the boot manager for the Win7 partition (I haven’t done it myself yet, still waiting to build my Win7 machine).

Out of curiosity, where did you find the steps you used and where did you perform them? The Win7 repair console? That actually sounds like the sort of commands possible in FDISK, but I don’t know if Win7 is still using that program.

#4

https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
https://gparted.sourceforge.net/
For future reference.

#5

It didn’t work automatically or manually.

Yeah I messed around in the cmdconsole and tried the simplest way.

Uh thanks. I don’t really need this but

#6

ye but dey be awsum an evry1 shud hav em

#7

also if you ever have to expand a partition you should use the Disk Management tool from Within Windows 7 or Vista as it has proper NTFS support and can easily shrink or expand any NTFS volume.

That was all you had to do. Not dick around with setting partitions as active or that shit.

#8

Ubuntu live cd and EasyBCD may well have done the trick for you too.

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