boot device

On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...

Fixes an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error that occurs after you use an identical device to replace an iSCSI network adapter in Windows Server 2008 R2 and in Windows 7 SP1 if the computer starts from an iSCSI disk. More...

Hi, I was running Windows 7 on a Dell Vostro 3700 Laptop..After doing a spyware scan and finding and deleting all the entries I found, the next time I turned it on I get the error: oxc000000f "An error occured while attmepting to read the boot configuration data File: \Boot\BCD" I have...

Hey everybody, just encountered what i think may be a boot sector trojan virus. Im running windows 7 on a sony vaio and can only get into the BIOs system (version R0200Z5). Im unable to boot into anything (normal mode, safe mode, system restore points) when trying, my comp just...

My computer is reletivly new, here are the specs. AMD Phenom II 840 Quad Core(x4) 3.2Ghz ASUS M4A78LT-M LE 8Gb Dual Channel DDR3-1333 Seagate/Western Digital 1TB SATA II Liteon 24x SATA Dual Layer DVD Writer Nvidia Geforce GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 Basically the problem first started yesterday after...

The last BSOD I had was when downloading Matlab(don't know if it's related). I'm attaching the .dmp file, but the problem is I don't think the most recent ones have been showing up; since I unchecked automatically restart under Startup and Recovery Settings the system freezes up and doesn't...

Hello. OK, this is not a Windows 7 related/caused problem, but as I am desperate for help and have received excellent help on this site in the past, I thought I might try anyway. When I started up my other PC this morning, it never got past the first screen, the one where I have a choice of...

Hi All, I NEED SOME HELP of course... I used BCD and fouled up my system... I went back to a clean disk and created a primary partition using the whole disk space ( I used GParted from a linux bootable USB)... I'm running linux now. Using Acronis I restored my C drive with the MBR to the...

Hi We bought a new PC in January, and it's been fine until now. Suddenly last week we started having problems. Every now and then dialog boxes flicker when you try to click on them and you can't select any options. The same happened with the Start menu - the only way to turn the computer off...

Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...

ok so here is how my pc was set 3Xsata hdd(storage) 1Xide hdd(os) so i had vista installed on my ide hdd and decided to install windows 7 on one of my sata hdd ( 75gig raptor 10 000rpm) everything whent ok i installed all my drivers, avira,nero8 , winrar etc etc. then i did my updates 1st was...