Recent content by odehart

Nothing I've added should have effected the screen resolution or size but who knows for sure? I have run a couple of registry cleaner/fixers. I haven't considered doing a restore since I am not sure exactly when the problem first appeared and would rather not start on restoring and working my...

The display size on my system is not retained. In Control Panel - Display the display is set to Smaller - 100% [default] but this is not retained. Essentially at every boot the display size defaults/resets to 125% though Control Panel - Display shows the setting as Smaller - 100%. If I do a...

Actually several comments. First I simply missed the first reply or forgot it and I did certainly apologize for forgetting it thus your diatribe is to be regretted. Second, a screen shot would be useless since it would show that C: where W7 is installed is the boot drive EVEN IF D: IS FIRST IN...

Solved the problem based on other advice. All the advice/suggestions in this thread would not have helped at all. I made the changes in bootmgr using bcdedit and still no boot. However, someone else asked about the boot priority setting as their first question. I looked in bios and in HD...

Too much fracking stuff going on. bcdedit seems to show the problem. Run bcdedit and you get the contents of Windows Boot Manager. In Windows Boot Manager the device line reads Device.......Partition=F: which happens to be the dvd drive used to install W7. In Windows Boot Loader the line...

Quite snippy aren't we? I had to go to bed and am now at work whereas my W7 computer is at home. I did try the bootrec suggestion once it was pointed out that that it is only on the install dvd. That did not work. I'll have to recreate that and post the exact result. Did not try bcdedit...

missing bootmgr in Win 7 I have encountered the same problem. A power loss after installing left me with no bootmgr. ABlount's suggested fix results in a "bootrec is not recognized as an internal or external command...". Bcdedit [recommended elsewhere] is in /windows/system32 but gives an...