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Sorry about the timelapse, but I am back now and in reply to the above:
No, syqOO, I was unable to boot into Win7, but I did manage to recover all important files, which was not possible originally.
And,thorkelljar, I downloaded a copy of Win7 from the link you suggested and formatted the drive to reinstall the os.
So all in all, I am happy about the result as well as for the valuable lesson and thank you, gentlemen (ladies?), very much for your kind help!
Hmmm - I do not see my last post, so here it is again:
Sorry about the timelapse, but I am back now and in reply to the above:
No, syqOO, I was unable to boot into Win7, but I did manage to recover all important files, which was not possible originally.
And,thorkelljar, I downloaded a copy of Win7 from the link you suggested and formatted the drive to reinstall the os.
So all in all, I am happy about the result as well as for the valuable lesson and thank you, gentlemen (ladies?), very much for your kind help!
If the partition table has been restored and the HDD will mount but the Windows installation won’t boot, you've probably overwritten, or changed the partition specifications as seen by, the Windows 7 bootloader.
In that case, you might proceed by steps. You can use a linux live-CD to check that your Windows files are there and readable, try something like the Plop bootloader to see if Windows will boot, and use a Windows 7 backup disk or installation DVD to restore the bootloader. I assume Windows is your first concern, it gives the most trouble if unsettled.
I feel this post of mine is somewhere, but I cannot find it. So here it is again as #3:
Sorry about the timelapse, but I am back now and in reply to the above:
No, syqOO, I was unable to boot into Win7, but I did manage to recover all important files, which was not possible originally.
And,thorkelljar, I downloaded a copy of Win7 from the link you suggested and formatted the drive to reinstall the os.
So all in all, I am happy about the result as well as for the valuable lesson and thank you, gentlemen (ladies?), very much for your kind help!
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