boot manager

In the early days of Win7 it was usual to install one Win7 system on a partition (say A) and let it be called during bootup from the partition independent MBR from the hard disk directly: MBR ---> partititon "A" (with Win7) Then it became more and more popular to install two different Win 7...

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I required a second copy of win7 for testing purposes. I created a bootable virtual hard drive with win7 installed on it. However when I restart my pc, there is no boot manager present. I always have to press F11 to enter into the boot menu and then choose the...

I am having a problem with my boot manager being disabled when I turn my computer on in the morning. The last two mornings I have had to go into my bios and enable it. Is there some setting I need to change? My Motherboard is an MSI B75MA-P45 I am running in UEFI mode.

Hello, My computer has many corrupt files. I have done both sfc /scannow and chkdsk /r multiple times, but the corrupt files still remain. Unfortunately, my HP's recovery manager is also corrupt. I want to do a full factory restore. Because I couldn't do a full factory restore from the...

I have a "main" partition which contains my main "Win 7" system. Occasionally I want to boot a second Win 7 from another primary partition. When I hit at boot time <F4> I get into the Win BootManager menu. But unfortuantely there is only my main Win7 listted. The other Win7 is NOT listed...

Hello, I am using HP laptop. I was using windows 7 operating system. But for some kind of problems i thought to run a set up in my laptop. As i heard from some people that Windows 8 is better than windows 7, so tried to install windows 8. During installation i did format to my installation drive...

Very briefly :- I got my new PC up &^ running and installed extra SDD's & HDD's. In the process of setting up the computer I wasn't sure if I wanted to run 64 bit or 32bit Win7. In the event the guy installed win&64 but when I got the computer I fitted another SDD with Win7 32 bit. I booted the...

Hi! I'm new here. My name is John Todd. How are you? I apologize if this has been covered already. I tried the search and browsed a lot but couldn't find the answer. I think it is because I don't quite know what to ask for. Here is my problem: I need to re-image my main C:. I'm running...

I just put together a brand new PC build with all new components. In the middle of a custom install of Windows 7 on the HDD (the system only has one 1TB 7200rpm toshiba HDD), the installation screen went blank and the computer restarted. After restarting, the monitor displayed bootdisk mgr...

Currently on my (new) computer there is only a (pre-)installed windows 8 In detail there is a 300 MB big active system partition (I guess with the Win8 boot manager). and a 200GB parition with Windows 8 Now I want to create a new partition (with 50 GB) and install Windows 7 on it. Is the...

Hi My PC is windows 7, I purchased win8 on release day and installed without issue until today today I restored my windows 7 to day 1 and as such it has removed the win8 dual boot system and directly loads win7 I have since got back win8 but it now does this via the old win7 dual boot I know...

I have a boot mgr problem. When I boot up I get two choices one is a good working win7 and the other is a partial win 7 install that comes up as windows setup. What I need to do is remove the win set up choice and nothing I've tried seems to do that. What do I need to do to get rid of the win...

Hi guys I have the following problem: I had a Win7 x64 installed on my SSD. Now this week I installed a Win7 on my mothers Pc, sadly the install screwed up. I could not boot her System anymore even the RecoveryCD failed to load. Now thinking I could install her Win7 on my Pc I took out her HDD...

Back Story: I had an issue in the past were my computer would restart overnight (I assume it crashed) and upon trying to start up the computer it would not load Windows 7(W7) most of the time. To get it to load I would have to shut the computer down and leave it off for a while and then it would...

This is all because I had to try to go putting Ubuntu on my PC. X( Here's the order of events: I installed Ubuntu 12.10 as a dual boot, and everything was going swimmingly until I tried to install my video drivers, and I couldn't get into Ubuntu, so I go back to my Windows x64. In my infinite...

Guys, I know you are experienced and probably will know the answer. I have problem with laptop and XP. I needed to repartition HDD so I manually made a copy of all files from C:\ (via liveCD so that all of the were copied correctly) repartitioned and restored those files back on C:\...

Hi all, I'm new around here so, if you've seen this before, please bear with me. I have a computer with 3 hard disks in it as follows: - Patriot Pyro 120 GB on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (installed first) - WD Velociraptor 450 GB on Windows 8 Pro x64 (installed second) - Samsung something 2 TB...

Windows 7 Pro and Windows XP PRO “Semi Dual boot” My question is labeled “”Semi Dual Boot” because I have a situation involving WIN 7 Pro and WIN XP Pro on the same computer. Background --How I got to where I need to make this post I had a WIN XP PRO, SP3 system installed,(100% genuine...

I have 3 hard disks of 2 TB each with plenty of space for partitions. I run a multi-boot manager with a number of Windows OSs including Windows Vista and Windows 7, along with a number of Linux distros. I would like to install Windows 8 in its own partition, not upgrade Windows 7. I am...

Hi! Initially i had a local disk of C:, D:, E:, F:, Now i have only C: My local drives are missing.I dont Know how to fix it. Link Removed When i tried to fix in desk management there also no local drives were present. Link Removed Before the problem i downloaded win2flash software for...