Dual Boot Vista 32 Ultimate, Windows 7 64 Ultimate, Partition has disappeared!
WD 150GIG Raptor OS drive. 90 GIG partition holding Windows Vista 32, 24 GIG holding new install of Windows 7 64. Dual boot worked perfectly.
Installed Disk Director 11 on the Windows 7 side. Took 24 GIG from the Vista partition and assigned it to the Windows 7 partition. No errors thrown. Rebooted, all appeared to go well through the operation, but upon reboot to new configuration I get the dreaded "Press Ctl-Alt_Delete..." prior to Windows booting (after successful/error-free POST).
Have tried the Windows 7 diagnostics. Went in to navigate the Vista partition (in the "Install Drivers" dialogue) and it is not recognized at all, though the Windows 7 partition looks fine.
Am now installing another version of Windows 7 on a different hard drive to attempt recovery.
I do have a 3 day old image of the hard drive but am scared to death to invoke such a thing. I don't keep current data on the OS drive (don't even keep the scratch file on the OS drive) but reinstalling all of my software would take a couple of days-literally-if the process somehow failed.
Any thoughts?

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The OS Detection Wizard cannot see my Windows 7 64 bit OS installation. The system folders appear to be intact-from what I can tell-by viewing them in Windows Explorer.
I have marked that partition as Active.
Here's the situation. I have a 150GIG HDD with two partions. One is holding a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate installation that is apparently intact: It is 47.8GIG in size with 25.1GIG free. The other used to hold a 32 bit Windows Vista Ultimate but it is now showing empty.
The "empty" 32 bit partition is to the left of the 64 bit partition in Disk Director's graphic interface. It has a red flag-apparently, it is "active." I can change the "active" status over to the 64 bit installation but it apparently changes back when I reboot.
I can navigate to the 64 bit OS partition and open, as Administrator, the Disk Director console. It shows the same thing as when I open Disk Director in my new, temporary 64 bit OS installation on another hard drive which I installed in the hopes of fixing this problem.
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Leo:
You say that you have a 3-day old image of the Vista 32-bit partition, plus a second hard disk. If you are nervous about risking the main hard disk then why not restore your disk image to the second hard disk as a test? A successful outcome will give you confidence in the image restoration process.
If you want to try this then first delete all of the partitions on the second hard disk leaving it completely unallocated. Shut down your PC and remove the primary hard disk, putting it aside for safekeeping. Connect the second disk in its place and then boot the PC from the TrueImage recovery CD. Restore the image to the blank disk and then reboot. If successful, you now have confidence in the image recovery process and can, if you wish, restore this image to the main hard disk to recover.
One additional item to be aware of -- if you have created the typical Microsoft dual-boot installation where you started with Vista and then installed Windows 7 to a different partition on the same disk, the files that boot Windows (either version) are located on the first (Vista) partition. This is the partition that must be marked as "Active" in order to boot correctly.
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Heya, Mark! Thanks so much for your input.
As a matter of fact, I just restored both images (one of the Vista 32 bit, one of the 7 64 bit) and in spite of my being a chicken about it...things went fine.
Which, because: "I'm not particularly bright, but I'm slow..." I'm going to go ahead, reinstall Disk Director, and try it all over again.
If you're anywhere in the western US, and you hear screaming...
Thanks!
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Leo:
Glad to hear that the image restoration worked. TI can be a life saver at times, can't it?
To have more success with the partition operations there are two approaches that may have fewer pitfalls than the one that you may have used.
1. Do the operations while booted from the Disk Director CD. Start in manual made and do each operation one at a time instead of all at once. For example:
a. Resize the Vista partition smaller and commit the operation, leaving unallocated space to the right of the Vista partition.
b. Resize the Windows 7 partition larger by including the unallocated space to the left of the Win 7 partition.
c. Boot from the Windows 7 DVD and fix the BCD. Since the starting sector was moved, the pointer to the Windows 7 partition will be incorrect. An automatic repair should fix this.
2. The easy way - repeat your partition restores. First restore the Vista partition but make it smaller when restoring. Then restore the Windows 7 partition but make it larger.
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