F11 boot screen not showing - partition issues

[jacobz]

Hi,

I had "fun" by installing Ubuntu and in the process I deleted the Windows partitions but kept the two other partitions (one is the recovery of 450MB and the other ~1023MB which is hidden).

I tried to boot on a Windows install media and using diskpart setting the recovery partition to active. Still I can't get it to boot using thar partition. Also tried the fixmbr and fixboot (only fixmbr was able to execute). It seems the recovery partition no longer contains the necessary boot files.

Anybody been in the same situation or have hints? 🙂

[jacobz]

... I'm able to boot using the 1023 partition. This boots to CyberLink PowerRecover screen, but can't do restore because it says "The program cannot restore the system partition because its structure is incorrect".

[daddle]

@jacobz 

No wonder. Your Ubuntu installation changed the bootloader, and you kílled he EFI partition. The Recover partition you tried to  boot, is the Win RE. The  other one is the OEM Power Recover partition, to reset your Windows installation to factory state. It could  be booted by starting the PC with the F11 key pressed.

But seeing you deleted all  the Windows partitions and also the Recover partition with the recovery image, Power Recover can not function anymore. Even if PR still could boot. The image is missing.

So you have to rebuild the whole Windows Installation from scrap.

But I  wonder about your knowledge and your chuzpe to even describe what you did. Because it never could have worked out´this way.

Cheers, daddle