Help: Dual Boot - Deleted MAC OS partition, how to get Win7 started again?

[danieldmark]

Hello all,

a few years back, I built a Sandy Bridge dual boot hackintosh with MultiBeast boot loader. Win7 and OSX were installed on two same sized partitions on a 128gb SSD.

Since I was not using OSX anymore, I deleted the mac partition on my SSD. Only to figure out later that this of course contained the boot loader. When starting up the computer from a Win7 installation disk, it crashes with some "I/O" error (I disconnect all other devices and only 4gb RAM).

Further, the SSD is not readable when connected to another PC as external drive (which I tried in order to backup Win7 data before a possible re-install of Win7).

Can anyone help?
Whats my best course of action to get the Win7 partition up and running again? Or at least to access it?

Thanks a lot!
Daniel

 

[Going Bald]

Hello all,

a few years back, I built a Sandy Bridge dual boot hackintosh with MultiBeast boot loader. Win7 and OSX were installed on two same sized partitions on a 128gb SSD.

Since I was not using OSX anymore, I deleted the mac partition on my SSD. Only to figure out later that this of course contained the boot loader. When starting up the computer from a Win7 installation disk, it crashes with some "I/O" error (I disconnect all other devices and only 4gb RAM).

Further, the SSD is not readable when connected to another PC as external drive (which I tried in order to backup Win7 data before a possible re-install of Win7).

Can anyone help?
Whats my best course of action to get the Win7 partition up and running again? Or at least to access it?

Thanks a lot!
Daniel

Do you still have the UniBeast installer you used to install OS X? You should be able to boot with it and select the Windows icon.

 

[danieldmark]

If I remember correctly, the software I used according the TonyMac tutorial was MultiBeast.

I don't think I still have it, but I suppose I should be able to find it somewhere on this site. If I do, should I use the MultiBeast software or the UniBeast you mentioned?

Thx!

 

[danieldmark]

Addition:

The tutorial I used was:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.de/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html


I suppose that I need iBoot to start the computer and then the Win7 partition should show up?

 

[Going Bald]

Addition:

The tutorial I used was:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.de/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html


I suppose that I need iBoot to start the computer and then the Win7 partition should show up?

iBoot will work if you still have or can burn again the CD.
There are also methods for repairing the BCD for Win7 on the Windows tech support site.