Recent content by davidshea

Ok, an *UPDATE*!!! It's fixed! At least, all signs point to it! :) What I did was, I re-did everything that I did in my latest post, from what SIW2 told me to do (go to the Command line, make my XP HDD inactive, then exit). Then I actually SHUT DOWN my PC, opened it, unhooked the XP HDD...

Ok, here's what I did, and it still didn't work. Here goes: I booted straight into 7 using the DVD (not into the Setup/Repair, but straight into the 7 OS, using the MBR on the DVD). Once there, I hit Start, typed "cmd", and Right-Clicked on it (as you said three posts up), and chose "Run as...

Dear Saltgrass & SIW2: First, again, as always - thank you for taking time to help me. Second - it didn't work; but it did produce a new error message, so - progress? :) Here's what I did: Saltgrass, I did what you suggested, and I went into Disk Management. I then found my Win 7 drive...

And what, exactly, is this going to do? Or, attempt to do? Please let me know in detail, as it makes me a little nervous. :redface:

Another picture: Is this better/does this help?

Names of HDs: It should also be noted that "Morgoth" is my old XP HD, and "Shelob" is my new, Win 7 HD.

Screenshots Screenshots attached.

Just and FYI to my latest post: I figured out how to tell if my Win 7 HD was first in the BIOS, and it is. Repeat: it was/is first in the BIOS loading order. Second: I still don't know how to tell if the partition is marked "active". What does that mean, and where do I look? Finally, I...

Here's what I know: In my BIOS, I have it set to first check for external media to boot (I have none); then I have it set to check for CD/DVD (hence, how I boot from the Win 7 DVD); then I have it set to check for a HD. In addition, I have two HD's in my machine (obviously); in the SATA 1 port...

Saltgrass: I'm sad to report, nothing has been fixed. I have done the Win 7 Startup Repair no less than five times now, and after the first time (which did say "attempting to fix errors"), each subsequent time the Startup Repair reads, "No errors have been found. If you recently plugged in a...

Dear Saltgrass: Ok, I'll try and be more clear and succinct (I wrote the above in a hurry, I apologize.) Here's the essential "backstory" of what was/is going on, and where I am right now: Had an XP machine for 4 years; two months ago, I bought and added in another HD. At reboot, I put in my...

I've been dual-booting for about two months now on two seperate HDs. One HD is XP Pro SP3 - it was my first one - and then I added another HD and installed Win 7 on that. Recently, my 7 was crashing in a BSOD hard when I was playing a video game. I posted the minidump files online, and was...