Recent content by Joe71

Oops.. I forgot to take the W7 disk out of the hopper. I still have the NTLDR not found error and a boot fail without the W7 disk installed in the CD reader. I am now proceeding to a) disable ALL disk drives except the desired RAID1 pair and b) Reinstall Windows 7. Maybe that will fix it...

Thanks SIW2... Your suggestion FIXED the problem of having to have the W7 install disk in the CD/DVD hopper in order to boot. Now when I select "Windows 7" in the dual boot window that comes up, it boots up normally to the desktop. The "dual boot" window does offer Win7 as the default and...

Here is the disk mgmt screen again. I did not see it in the last posting.

Attached is image of disk management window. Also.. What is an "Elevated Command"? Thanks.

bcdedit says: The boot configuration file could not be opened. Access is denied. The particular RAID partition WAS the D: drive in the XP configuration. I disconnected and saved the C: RAID drives "just in case" the W7 install did not go well... as now.. :) I did NOT repartition and/or...

I did a Windows 7 "full install" onto my Gigabyte MB RAID equipped quad core 64bit system. "Nominally" all went to completion without any problem whatsoever. The only problem I have is when I boot up. 1) If I boot up WITHOUT the Win7 64bit install disk in the drive, I get an error message...