Cannot boot?

[ris8]

Must have done some noob error...
First time I use PING. I was trying to back up my HDD, 2 partitions, Win 7, SSD. Destination was supposed to be my second HDD.
I am fairly sure I correctly selected the 2 partitions to back up at the beginning. I am also pretty sure I selected the correct destination. Only odd thing I though I did was just pressing enter on the destination directory (tried to write \Partimage, but it did not go through, guessed bc I had not created it).
Then code starts, seems to execute some fdisk, gives a couple of "cannot expand partition" (I think), and exits within 10 seconds.
At the end, the main HDD has no partitions, cannot boot.
Tried an old "ultimate boot CD", tried Active Partition Recovery, but does not detect anything.
Any clue what I messed up and how I can fix it? Cannot have lost much as the code was quick.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

Stefano

[ris8]

Got it.
Used the Win 7 recovery disk.
You can find the steps on various forums, but in case this is what worked for me:
1. did the automatic startup restore twice. This restored the large partition (the C drive) but still no boot
2. set the C to active partition: command prompt > diskpart > list disk > select disk=0 > list partition > select partition=1 > active > exit
3. then not sure which of the following did the trick, so:
3A: Command prompt
bootsect.exe /nt60 c:
3B: another automatic system restore

[ris8]

Got it.
Used the Win 7 recovery disk.
You can find the steps on various forums, but in case this is what worked for me:
1. did the automatic startup restore twice. This restored the large partition (the C drive) but still no boot
2. set the C to active partition: command prompt > diskpart > list disk > select disk=0 > list partition > select partition=1 > active > exit
3. then not sure which of the following did the trick, so I'll put both:
3A: Command prompt
bootsect.exe /nt60 c:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
3B: another automatic system restore

All well what ends well... but I'll be more careful next time

[ris8]

To finish this, turns out PING had started creating the image files on the correct HDD, so I guess there must have been some other issue. I am posting the HDD_Look. Hope it helps.

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--------------------fdisk start Device [sda]

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13        9730    78046208    7  HPFS/NTFS
--------------------fdisk end Device [sda]
--------------------ping start Device [sda]
P.Table-read Heads: [255]
P.Table-read Sectors/track: [63]
P.Table-read Cylinders: [9729]
BIOS-read Heads: [255]
BIOS-read Sectors/track: [63]
BIOS-read Cylinders: [9729]
--------------------ping start Partition [0]
Name: [sda1]
Type: [7]
FS_Type: [ntfs]
Dirs: [Boot]
Label: [System Reserved]
Boot flag: [1]
Start: [1]
End: [13]
Blocks: [102400]
--------------------ping end Partition [0]
--------------------ping start Partition [1]
Name: [sda2]
Type: [7]
FS_Type: [ntfs]
Dirs: [Program Files (x86),Users,$Recycle.Bin,ATI,Brother,cygwin,Documents and Settings,Intel,Log,MSOCache,PerfLogs,Program Files,ProgramData,Recovery,share,TEMP,tmp,Windows]
Label: []
Boot flag: [0]
Start: [13]
End: [9730]
Blocks: [78046208]
--------------------ping end Partition [1]
--------------------ping end Device [sda]
--------------------fdisk start Device [sdb]

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
--------------------fdisk end Device [sdb]
--------------------ping start Device [sdb]
P.Table-read Heads: [255]
P.Table-read Sectors/track: [63]
P.Table-read Cylinders: [14593]
BIOS-read Heads: [255]
BIOS-read Sectors/track: [63]
BIOS-read Cylinders: [14593]
--------------------ping end Device [sdb]
--------------------fdisk start Device [sdc]

Disk /dev/sdc: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1       41879   336393036    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2           41880       91201   396178965    7  HPFS/NTFS
--------------------fdisk end Device [sdc]
--------------------ping start Device [sdc]
P.Table-read Heads: [255]
P.Table-read Sectors/track: [63]
P.Table-read Cylinders: [91201]
BIOS-read Heads: [255]
BIOS-read Sectors/track: [63]
BIOS-read Cylinders: [91201]
--------------------ping start Partition [0]
Name: [sdc1]
Type: [7]
FS_Type: [ntfs]
Dirs: [$Recycle.Bin,87f379fc38f055629a258758b7b45960,Amazon Games & Software,Config.Msi,OLD,Program Files (x86),ProgramData,Recovery]
Label: []
Boot flag: [1]
Start: [1]
End: [41879]
Blocks: [336393036]
--------------------ping end Partition [0]
--------------------ping start Partition [1]
Name: [sdc2]
Type: [7]
FS_Type: [ntfs]
Dirs: [$RECYCLE.BIN,Backups,Pictures,Videos]
Label: [OLD-BACKUPS-RETROSPECT]
Boot flag: [0]
Start: [41880]
End: [91201]
Blocks: [396178965]
--------------------ping end Partition [1]
--------------------ping end Device [sdc]