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Changed to dynamic disk now can't boot?

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Gautama2

Golden Member
Last night I changed my HDD (one partition, NTFS, Vista 64 Ultimate) to a dynamic disk. I had an idea to create seperate volumes for music, pictures, and movies. I decided screw it halfway through and recombined all the space into one large simple volume. I turned off my computer for the night.

This morning when I boot I get
"NVIDIA Boot Agent 229.0525
CLIENT MAC ADDR: <mac address> GUID: FFFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFF-FFFFF
DHCP...
PXE-E53: No boot filename received

When I put in my vista CD and run startup recovery, it detects that I have no system partition in my parition table and goes on to say it repaired and added one. I reboot, same thing all over again.


Ideas?
 
Hopefully, you made backups of anything important.

If nobody can give you a way to recover with Vista or Linux tools, then you might want to install the drive in another PC and see if one of the several NTFS disk recovery tools can at least get your data back.
 
I decided to just go ahead in reinstall Vista, all my music (No way I'm ripping all those CDs again) is/was backed up on my external so I've got nothing to lose cept a bit of time.


Anyway, I used the command prompt to convert it back to basic then Vista formatted it and i went ahead and installed. Thus, it will have only been written over once, correct (excluding where the OS is)? If so, I could use a undelete type program and get most stuff back right?

 
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