Recent content by pikay2k

My XP drive may still die. I revived it, miraculously, but it may poof tomorrow for all I know. I'd still like to make my 1.5TB drive the one with the boot manager rather than my XP drive. I was just wondering if perhaps having access to my XP boot manager would make this easier. Also, the...

Excuse the triple post, but I do believe I've stumbled on something that may be able to help my situation significantly. I messed around with my old hard drive with XP and I managed to revive it (though for how long, I have no idea; I ran chkdsk on it and it booted into XP fine). I can't boot...

Chkdsk came up with no errors, as I expected, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try anyway. Here's my Partition Wizard. I'm not sure why my dead drive is still shown there when it's not even in my computer anymore. Disk 1 is just another storage disk, there's nothing particularly on it but...

Ah, in that case I've done that startup repair a few times and my install still isn't listed. Chkdsk is still running at 21% at stage 4, taking longer than I expected, but my next post will have the image you requested attached.

Correct. I've already removed the old drive, and my 1.5 TB drive has 2 partitions, with the Windows 7 partition being active. There's a way to bypass it? I've just been restarting after each automatic repair. I had no idea you could start another repair without restarting. Sure, I'm...

ello, I've run into a problem with my Windows 7 install. For context, I originally had Windows XP dual booting with Windows 7 because I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the upgrade at the time. Windows XP was on my old 300 GB HDD, while I had Windows 7 on my 1.5 TB HDD (with 83GB allocated into...

I have no backups or restore points, and Last Known Good Configuration gives me KSOD.

And, just to verify, deleting the programs folder to save space won't hinder the installation from making a Windows.old since it's not even looking at the files for verification, just moving them, correct?

Hello. I don't have a hard drive large enough to backup the data on my daughter's netbook with a corrupted W7 starter install. When I attempt to re-install W7 starter, it does tell me that if it detects a previous Windows install, it will move the files over into a Windows.old folder. I'm...

My daughter forgot her password for her netbook running Windows 7 Starter, so first I used Ophcrack, which was unable to get the password. I then proceeded to try Kon-boot 1.0, which bypasses the Windows login screen, only for it to break something. To be fair, it was my fault for not...