Partition help

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shifty131

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My problem is I used MEPIS to shrink my Vista 32 partition so I could create another partition to install Vista 64, all looked well, except my system will not boot from either partition from the looks of it, can anybody help me, the 1st partion is "primary" and the 2nd is a extended one with a logical partition. The primary still has the boot flag but I cannot get into Windows at all, I don't want to re-format the whole drive as I have years of data and my last back-up was a while ago, can anyone help me?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Home Built
    CPU
    Core 2 Duo 6MB cache - 3.95Ghz (OC)
    Motherboard
    XFX 780i
    Memory
    4GB DDR2 (Sli Ready - but disabled) (OCed instead)
    Graphics card(s)
    GeForce 9600GTO 512DDR3 (FactoryOC & OC by Ntune x2 in Sli)
    Sound Card
    5.1 Creative Infidelity
    Monitor(s) Displays
    24" Samsung HDMI T240
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1200
    Hard Drives
    1000GB or 1TB, SATA2 Western Digital
    PSU
    1000W Tri Sli Ready PSU
    Case
    ATX
    Cooling
    CPU Zalman + Lots of case fans
    Mouse
    Dell Standard USB
    Keyboard
    Dell Standard USB
    Internet Speed
    4-8Mbits
Hmm, maybe your MBR was moved now that you installed Win7. Use the bootable CD of this program - then you are independent of the OS. Inspect the disk and if you see a small 100MB partition, make that primary and active - deactivate the Vista partition. Else, try the Win7 partition with the same procedure.

But make 100% sure that you NEVER end up with more than 4 primary partitions - that spells serious trouble.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
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