How to recover Windows 7 boot
First, use the compatible boot of Windows Vista, and check the real drive letter of the system disk with the command of List under Diskpartk.:
>diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> list volume
Try to use Bootsect.exe to recover the MBR of the system disk. All these can be found under the boot directory of the installation disk for Windows Vista/2008/7. /nt 60 stands for the boot manager of Vista and /nt 52 stands for the used NTLDR.
>bootsect.exe /nt60 C:
Input the boot parameter of Windows with bcdboot.exe.
Recover the boot parameter of Windows 7 with the command >bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
Recover the boot parameter of Windows 2008 with command >bcdboot d:\windows /s c:
Of course, with these commands, we can also set bootable USB drive.
Input the following cmd to set the volume of DISKPART Activate USB
>diskpart
DISKPART>list volume
DISKPART>select volume
DISKPART>activate
Then input the cmd bootsect to make the boot sector of this USB
bootsect /nt60
Tip: copy the boot cmd to the USB drive, and finish the operation.
The system partition is the active partition of the hard drive and it contains the OS boot record. The boot partition is the partition where the Windows operating system is stored.
The boot partition
Boot Camp allows you to install Windows on your Mac and dual boot. Your Mac will look just like a Windows PC when you boot into the Windows partition. You will also have to install Windows Security on that partition to be safe.
Active partition is a term Windows uses to mean the partition Windows will boot off of. The Windows boot loader goes to its configuration file and starts, these files will be in the active partition.
boot partition
boot partitionThe boot partition is the disk partition that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files, but not any files responsible for booting.
Must be at least a 2 GB partition. System partition.
It is not possible to install any Operating System next to another on the same partition. To dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows XP, first install Windows 7, and while in the partition manager, delete all partitions and create one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP. Then install Windows 7 to it's partition. Then install XP to it's partition. You should now be able to boot either Operating System. Note: You must install XP after Windows 7 as the Windows 7 installation wizard would want to upgrade XP. WARNING: This will erase all of the data on your hard drive. Be sure to back up all of your files before installing anything.
In a Windws PC, a sysem partition contains hardware level details of the hard disk and other partitions. It contains files that tell the Bios where to look for the boot loader, hence all disks must always have a system partition.A boot partition is any bootable partition in your hard drive that contains an Operating system or a bootable utility.The active Prtition in your case is the partition that contains the boot loader (Most cases the partition that contains the first installation of windows) inyour case windows 2000.This s also the System Partition not the boot partition
Windows xp and 9x refer to this as the boot partition but in windows server 2003 this is referred to as the boot volume.
Windows xp and 9x refer to this as the boot partition but in Windows Server 2003 this is referred to as the boot volume.
You can partition your hard drive and install Windows Server onto the partitioned space. You then can boot up from either Windows 7 or Windows Server.