Partition and Booting

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I was deleting a secondary partition and a message appears telling me to
reboot computer management or restart the computer. However when I restarted
my computer windows will not boot. A message appears saying that no bootable
device is found. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME?
 
ta wrote On 6/19/2006 5:41 PM:
I was deleting a secondary partition and a message appears telling me to
reboot computer management or restart the computer. However when I restarted
my computer windows will not boot. A message appears saying that no bootable
device is found. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME?
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You probably erased your active partition.

What you do next depends on what is left. Are you trying to boot XP
after deleting Vista or boot Vista after deleting XP? Or do you think
perhaps you didn't delete either Vista or XP and probably deleted your
Dell utility partition?
 
It would be awfully tough to delete your active partition, so perhaps that is
not it. However, having said that, Vista has been known to put its boot files
on a secondary partition when you have two available.

This is a bug within setup, that will be resolved.

This is perhaps your problem, I recommend booting from the DVD and selecting
the option to diagnose startup problems. If you are lucky, it will repair
your boot options for you. Worst-case scenario, you are formatting, and
reinstalling.
 
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