Posted March 23, 201410 yr I have (used to have) Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a Dell Inspiron N5030 laptop. No crazy formatting or anything. Just the factory default 3 partitions on the internal HD (Partition 1-OEM or something; Partition 2-System Recovery; Partition 3-OS C:). One 1 TB external HD, 2 4-8 GB flash drives. 4 days ago, I stupidly decided to use TrueCrypt to encrypt the system partition (which I assume means Harddisk0\Partition3 and NOT all of Harddisk0) AND Partition2. When I tried to decrypt, it seemingly erased Partition 3 because when I boot it says "Operating System Missing". Unfortunately, I think it also erased the System recover on partition 2 (When I stuck my Repair disk in, it would go to the recovery console screen but nothing except the mouse pointer and blue Windows background were present. After 2 min, an error dialogue box with "Error 0x4001100200001012" would appear). I've tried creating a bootable Windows 7 Installer ISO to my flash drive (and I DID mount it before trying to use it) but my PC doesn't seem to recognize it (I also reconfigured BIOS to boot USB and DVD/CD before HD.) Even though one of the files on the mounted ISO is an autorun.inf telling it to run the setup file, it doesn't seem to do anything. Any thoughts (hopefully other than buying a new laptop). I do have about 2 viable system image backups and all backup files saved on my external HD from before the TrueCrypt fiasco/stupidity. Is there anyway to restore windows using that? Continue reading...
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