Recent content by eko13wf

The only odd thing I saw after loading was a dialog saying Windows needed to restart to take changes.

I'm all fixed up. I used Easy BCD, unplugged the secondary drive, booted from the DVD and did a startup repair. Immediately loaded after restarting. Thanks for all the input.

Someone on another forum linked me to a program called Easy BCD Creator. If I can't get the other solutions to work, would this be viable if anyone has experience with it?

Sounds like possibly a graphics card issue. With the previous problems you say you've had, your graphics card might be overheating which might cause it to shut off. Like you said, it might temporarily resolve by leaving the computer off, the card cools down. If it happens enough though, it will...

Well that's the weird part. I got a no-system-disk error with only that disk. The other disk loaded with WIN7 showed it immediately and active once I got into the OS there. I already have the original 1TB drive set as the first load in BIOS. I'm actually an IS major that just graduated but I've...

I'll try this when I get home. My problem was that loading from the DVD, my computer doesn't even recognize that hard drive before getting into Windows.

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...