windows - Missing disk 1 when diskparting

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2014-07

user334364

So yesterday one of my friends bought a new notebook, and they asked me to put a win 7 on it, well, i aswered yes cause i have installed windows for about 50 times now in my whole life, and i was like no problem what could happen...Everything worked perfectly until i wanted to partitionate. It was a 230gb, 230gb by default, but they told me, that they want 400gb, 100gb, yea no prolem, as every time I do when installing windows, i deleted the 2 230 gig partitions, and tried to make two new 100:400, but it didn't let me , said nothing, just the windows will make system stuff for that partition ...etc. So said nothing special and either didnt make the new partitions just had about 460gb free space on disk 0. (??) Ok, brought the notebook home and i tried to do lot things, cant tell u guys what was theese cuz as much as that. Nothing changed, even that i finded put that on the installer i have got an option to open a command prompt, tried a lot commmands again (like bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /fixmbr, diskpart stuffs...)

listed the disk with diskpart: Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0B - * where is my disk 1?? :O

listed volumes with diskpart: Vol 0 D UDF DVD-ROM....(so the installer stuff)

Vol 1 - RAW Partition 465 GB Healthly Not hidden

Vol 2 - FAT Partition 95 MB Healthly Hidden

I need someone expert's help that what happened to my disk 1?Or what else did I do wrong, I have read a lot stuff till i have this problem, red that new pcs and computers are designed to win 8 and its hard to put win 7 on dem, tried with win 8 too, still same prob, or did i do something wrong, I did things like always. Please help me guys!Thanks in advance.

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Partition 1 like 20GB (recovery partition) Primary
Partition 0 like 160 GB (don't know what it is) ?
Partition 2 Like 400GB (looks like partition 3, i only have 500 GB total so it has to be the same as partition 3?) Primary
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The results were:

Partition 1 could be active
Partition 2 could be active
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I read that if a partition is active it will start up first. Did not work for me.

Can someone help me with how to get into F9 Hidden recovery partition while starting up and recovery this machine?

I read somewhere that there were more people with same problem, they had the hidden recovery partition but could not enter it. Saw that some could enter by making that partition active etc. But that didn't work for me. Something about bootloader etc.

I don't want to send it for repair to ASUS because last time I send my last laptop, they shipped it back with a broken frame and defect on my CD player. They say to me they didn't do it, well, I didn't do it either!

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