boot loader

Hi, I had windows 7 and i installed red hat linux by creating a partition. When ever i boot the linux is the default OS which will come up unless i dont select the windows 7 manually. Now i wanted to remove the Linux so i removed the partition from windows. After reboot i see GRUB.Can you let me...

Hi ! I've divided my disk into partitions and accidentally removed boot loader of windows and now I get "boot mgr is missing", so I cant load my windows :( I have a disk and put boot order in BIOS but it still does not give me an opportunity to install windows, so I have only openSUSE right now...

Last Thursday I tried removing my Ubuntu partition on my hard drive (I gave the partition 200 out of 500gb rather foolishly and I wanted the space back instead of buying a new hard drive), but failed to reconfigure the boot loader correctly. I ended up with a 500gb drive with about 200gb of...

I had to reformat my Win 8 DP partition and then restore from an Image I had created. When I did this I lost the fancy new Win 8 DP Boot Screen (boot loader). I did have to go into Win 7 and use EasyBCD to add my Win 8 DP OS to the MBR, but the boring old Win 7 boot screen comes up, even when I...

Hy. I have pre installation of windows 7 on my C: drive than i installed windows Xp. than there was a conflict that windows xp loaded automatically but it was recovered by using recovery tool but when i used easybcd it didn't detect my windows xp on D: drive. but it's ok than i installed Kubuntu...

All I did was open a video strored locally with no connection to the internet. Shut down computer properly. I go to start it up and start up repair kick in. I have let the thing run on startup repair over night and a total of 12 straight hours. It reboots once, maybe even twice. Then it just sit...

Hi, I have been trying to install Ubuntu in my lappie..unfortunately the process got aborted during the boot loader installation. Now am trying to un install it completely and trying to install windows 7 on my PC. But i get error when windows 7 installation kit is trying to "Expand windows...

I'm changing computers with different OS, windows xp Home to Windows 7 . I need to put a string into the BCDedit to change my boot at startup. In Windows xp I had in the boot.ini [boot loader]| timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows [operating systems]...

A while back I used Partition Magic Pro v7 (the last good one) to change some setting on my system drive. Surprisingly it worked (originally designed for win2K), but the problem is that it doesn't think that it worked. Now every time my computer boots it tries running the partition magic...

I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD, itself in a new system which contains old HDDs. My homemade Tyan Tiger server/ workstation works it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick Windows 7 from...

So, I have XP pro. I got Win 7 Ultimate and installed it on a different partition. Boot loader sees Win 7 and sees "an older OS". I select the other OS and it gives me an error of "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll ". I know...

I have 3 operating systems on my Computer. Drive C is Active and Primary and has Win Xp. Drive D has Wind 7 Drive E is used for my data and backups. after that i installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. i have the concepts about the boot loader. i dont want to keep XP now. and want to format...

I screwed up my boot loader so i installed windows 7 and i can log in and everything. I was wondering if it would be possible to add my windows vista partition to the boot loader with my windows 7. The windows vista doesen't seem to show up on anything including easyBCD.

Hi I orignally had windows 7 professional 64 bit on my laptop. I had a 10 Gb partition, which i divided in SWAP and / mount to install Ubuntu Linux. My computer now loads into Grub loader. All is well, its just now i want to get rid of Linux. (I will install it on desktop and mess around with...

I had windows7 installed on a 500 gig hard drive. i shrunk this partition (465gigs) by 10 gigs, and i wanted to install windows xp on the 10 gig partition. So once the partition was made, i booted from the xp install disc and it installed on the 10 gig partition but when the computer restarted...

My wife's Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop came with Vista Home Premium on it. She couldn't deal with Vista so I set it up to dual boot XP Home also. This is it's hardware: Motherboard: CPU Type Mobile DualCore AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 1900 MHz (9.5 x...

I was running a dual boot setup with two XP installations, and I upgraded one to Win 7. Stupidly I forgot to back up the boot info for the XP install and 7 wiped it. I'm trying to fix this and having a hard time with it. So far I have downloaded the 3 files (boot.ini, NTDETECT, and ntldr) and...

Hi, I installed ubuntu 9 and then removed. however grub loader still appearred during booting up. and then fail to boot of course. I use windows 7 DVD to repair the startup problem. But it says no problem found. Finally I have to use XP CD to boot to recovery console and type "fixmbr" to solve...

I have Vista x64 loaded on primary (physical) drive C: and installed Win7 x64 on secondary (physical)drive B:, I cannot get either Win7 or Vista repair to fix loader! What can I do to get this to wrok via dual boot? Does Win7 need to be on a partion created from Primary Drive C: I can get Vista...

I'm a bit concerned about my installation options at this point. I have one 500GB HD, that I had partitioned to two drives with GParted. I was then able to install the Win 7 RC and dual boot both versions just fine. Now, I received my Windows 7 Upgrade copy and wondering if I can still...