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tuckortum

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Registered: 2014-07-29

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accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

i was trying to make the bootable flash drive but in the live usb tool i made the usb media my hard drive becuase i didnt understand how it was labeled and i need to know how to undo this.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

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Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

What operating system is on the hard drive that was overwritten by the live usb tool?

tuckortum

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Registered: 2014-07-29

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Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

windows 7 home preimium 64 bit. i tried to use the instalation disk to fix it by clicking on repair my computer but it didnt show me the windows 7 instalation.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

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Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

The live usb gui doesn't format before it installs,the windows install should still be there.

There should be a repair option on the windows 7 install disk to reinstall it's bootloader which was overwriten by tazusb/syslinux bootloader.

tuckortum

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Registered: 2014-07-29

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Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

please be more descriptive about the process.

sixofeight

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Registered: 2013-07-02

Posts: 234

Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

@tuckortum

Try this "how to fix it":

http://www.inteligentcomp.com/2013/06/how-to-repair-fix-mbr-windows-7-8.html

tuckortum

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Registered: 2014-07-29

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Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

ok that all works out fine and dandy but at step five it doesnt show any windows instalations.

tuckortum

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Re: accidentaly tried to make a bootable flash drive out of my hard drive.

this was a big help following the issues i had with sixofiughts link. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/7791044e-db7f-4144-a96c-945299811f58/bootmgr-not-found-bootrec-rebuildbcd-and-fixboot-give-element-not-found-error