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<blockquote data-quote="Alexdr" data-source="post: 632244" data-attributes="member: 62084">Fixed.It seemed the hanging in the recovery tools was just lag. Smashing F8 to load safe mode from the recovery disk did part of the trick. After that I used diskpart to re-activate my boot partition. I ran chkdsk as well (no /f) and it did find the 8KB of bad sectors. I then just had to spam the &quot;Repair&quot; button a few times (and wait) and eventually it found the recovery partition and restored my Windows 7 Home Premium. Now to use my activation key to get my proper OS back.Note, I did also, after reactivating my partition, run again bootrec /fixBoot, /fixMBR, bootsect /nt60 all /mbr. I also then tried to do bootsec /fixbcd, but that failed due to I/O permissions. At that point is when I spammed the fix.Since the repair tool spent its time repairing the disk, it probably did the chkdsk /R for me. Note, at this point (after the bootrecs but before the spamming, I had rebooted and had at least gotten to the point where it just said: No boot manager).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexdr, post: 632244, member: 62084"] Fixed. It seemed the hanging in the recovery tools was just lag. Smashing F8 to load safe mode from the recovery disk did part of the trick. After that I used diskpart to re-activate my boot partition. I ran chkdsk as well (no /f) and it did find the 8KB of bad sectors. I then just had to spam the "Repair" button a few times (and wait) and eventually it found the recovery partition and restored my Windows 7 Home Premium. Now to use my activation key to get my proper OS back. Note, I did also, after reactivating my partition, run again bootrec /fixBoot, /fixMBR, bootsect /nt60 all /mbr. I also then tried to do bootsec /fixbcd, but that failed due to I/O permissions. At that point is when I spammed the fix. Since the repair tool spent its time repairing the disk, it probably did the chkdsk /R for me. Note, at this point (after the bootrecs but before the spamming, I had rebooted and had at least gotten to the point where it just said: No boot manager). [/QUOTE]

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