[Shocklock]

Can anyone help me please? I foolishly deactivated my c drive so now i can't boot into windows at all. Message said "bootmgr is missing". I created a bootable usb which worked fine i guess, however now I'm at a black screen with C:\ i think i need to type a command of some sort? Laptop is hp Pavillion dv6 running vista.

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Hi

 

Can anyone help me please? I foolishly deactivated my c drive...

 

How did you do that?

[SleepyDude]

Hi

 

Can anyone help me please? I foolishly deactivated my c drive...

 

How did you do that?

[Shocklock]

Lol cause I'm an idiot

[Shocklock]

I went into advanced settings etc somehow while i was looking into doing a factory reset. Made c drive inactive, now I'm trying to figure out a way to activate it again with just a black dos looking screen lol.

[SleepyDude]

Do you know if your Windows Vista is 32 or 64 bits?

[Shocklock]

Seriously i don't know. Let's say 64.

[Shocklock]

I brought the laptop 2nd hand and it had a dodgy version of win7 on it hence the reason i wanted to do a factory reset. I've been reading online and apparently there is a way of accessing the disk management parts and reactivating the c drive so i can run vista. Does that sound right to you?

[SleepyDude]

I brought the laptop 2nd hand and it had a dodgy version of win7 on it hence the reason i wanted to do a factory reset. I've been reading online and apparently there is a way of accessing the disk management parts and reactivating the c drive so i can run vista. Does that sound right to you?

 

It depends if they didn't delete the Recovery Partition and if it's possible to boot from it...

 

Lets see...

• Download ListParts for 32 bit systems and save it to your USB device
• Download ListParts for 64 bit systems and save it to your USB device
• Boot using your Recovery media and select the Command Prompt option.
• Type notepad then hit Enter.
• Click File, Open, then select Computer.
• Note down the drive letter for your USB Drive
• Close Notepad.
• At the Command Prompt type e:\listparts64.exe and hit Enter (where e: is replaced by the drive letter for your USB drive)
• ListParts64 will start to run if not try to run listparts.exe instead
• Click the Scan button and wait for a Result - Notepad document to open
• Copy & Paste to your topic the contents of the log Result.txt created on the USB drive

 

Edit: I suppose you tried to use the F11 key during boot before doing the change and you can't access the Recovery Manager tool?

Edited by SleepyDude, 06 January 2016 - 06:26 AM.

[virtualtechie18]

I dont think you can be able to do that. Of course if you did, there should be a warning that C cannot be deactivated since its the primary drive.