I messed up with CLEAN

[alisa_boskonovitch6]

Help guys! I really don't know what I did wrong. Ok so what I'm trying to do is to install another copy of windows 7 (32bit), I alreadt have 64bit. (Please just dont ask me why) I have created different partitions from a single hard drive *(I have succesfully dual booted Windows 10 and Windows 7 x64)

So what I did was I shrinked the other partition so that I can create my own drive for the new Windows 7 32 bit. I was on the installation page and it says the "No device drivers found" error. So what I did was I used DISKPART:

Diskpart - List disk (3 disks; hard drive, dvdrom and usb stick) - I selected disk 0 (the hard drive) - used list partition and it shows all of my partitions - I CAREFULLY selected the empty partition that I created for the new Windows 7 - used CLEAN command and exited the disk part and cmd then rebooted the pc. I forgot to use the Boot menu from my bios so I just went straight in to boot from my hard disk then it shows :

"Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in selected device and press a key"

I was like, what happened!! I tried to reset to defaults my bios settings but I can't still boot from hard disk. The os menu won't appear. So I tried to use diskpart again in the installation setup and it showed that my disk have all the free space.

What happened? Please I need you help guys!! Is it still possible to recover all the files? I haven't anything yet again, just jeep trying on booting up, I didn't even continue my plan to install new windows because it might delete the files. Please guys help! Thank you very much in advance!

 

[alisa_boskonovitch6]

Update guys! I used the Windows XP setup to see my hard drive partitions, and they're still there! Even the free space is there meaning there's still files! I hope I can still use all of the,. What do I do guys?

 

[13thmonkey]

use the win7 setuo disk/stick and repair

 

[alisa_boskonovitch6]

Thanks for the reply!

I can't use it right now because I am dual-booted and the iso file is still in the drive. What do you think have caused this error?

I can't boot up my os or hard drive but if I run the Windows setup and in the page where I get the "No device drivers" error I click browse and still see my files.

I really need some help right now. My last option would be tranferring all of them to my 1TB "External" Hard drive (I have spare hard drive and I use usb to sata adapter)

 

[hang-the-9]

Sounds like you don't even have backups of your files, that makes doing what you are doing very bad. Boot of a Linux Live boot disk, copy your files from the drive to an external drive. Run a repair setup of Windows or a full clean setup of Windows. If you really have a good reason to have 32 bit and 64 bit Win 7 along with Win 10, get a cheap second computer, install 32 bit windows on that. Doing everything on a single drive is just asking for more issues.

 

[13thmonkey]

Sounds like you don't even have backups of your files, that makes doing what you are doing very bad. Boot of a Linux Live boot disk, copy your files from the drive to an external drive. Run a repair setup of Windows or a full clean setup of Windows. If you really have a good reason to have 32 bit and 64 bit Win 7 along with Win 10, get a cheap second computer, install 32 bit windows on that. Doing everything on a single drive is just asking for more issues.

or virtualise the others.