I tried installing Ubuntu with Windows 7 and crashed my boot process.I think I may have over written on the 200 MB boot partition.Whichever recovery method I try, it does not show me any partitions of the disk.How do I recreate that 200MB partition on to my HD? I need to replace what I deleted in order to boot into Windows 7.
View 6 Replies I wanted to start a dialog about this but I didn't want to do it in other people's threads. Not to mention; having one place to figure this out.
Originally Posted by smarteyeball Seven creates a 200MB partition at the start of drive for the boot data. (If it's a fresh drive, with no other OS installed / connected)
Posted Here I would like to know if this will affect how many "Primary Partition(s)" as opposed to "Extended Partition / Logical Drive(s)" are created in the normal course of creating partitions / drives. As I understand it; only three "Primary Partitions" can be created on any one HDD; any other partitions created must be an "Extended Partition"; which can't host the active boot files of the OS. This of course; in turn, limits the amount of drives that can host an OS on a HDD.
Where all this is leading: If Windows 7 creates this 200MB Partition as the first partition on the HDD; then that will limit how many (to two) partitions that are left to host an OS on that HDD. Now I know that few people dual boot; let alone multi boot on a single HDD.
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