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Dell Inspiron 1564 dual boot: Backtrack 5r1 and win7homepremium/8 Started innocently enough with me partitioning a drive to make space so I could test win7starter. I reboot to finalize the partition and I get the grub rescue error. I tried the super grub2 disk thing to no effect. I say screw...

Hi there! I am running Windows 7 home premium 64bit. When the notebook boots up, I get two options: Windows XP Pro 64bit 2003 setup and/or Windows 7. How I could remove the unwanted Windows XP boot? which is the {identifier} of Windows XP Pro 64bit 2003 that I should delete? in MS-DOS...

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...

In August 2009 i purchased an Acer Aspire one Netbook. The unit came preinstalled with WinXP. I subsequently upgraded to Win7. The Unit has worked well until about 1 week ago. Keyboard is malfuntioning...trackpad doesn't work until i hit the Fn+F7 keys...the screen began stuttering (if that's...

So I have a computer that now has XP/32 and Win7 64, installed all on the same disk, with two partitions that, while in XP, are id'd as C (XP) and H (Win7). Whenever I boot up and choose XP from the Boot Manager I get into XP, no problem. But if I choose Win7 from the Boot Manager, then I get...

[SOLVED] W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image Hello After restoring an image made with Clonezilla that used to work, Windows 7 is unable to start. When prompted, I used the DVD, but it still fails with "Startup Repair could not detect a problem". When rebooting, it says...

Hey Guys , i Just Wanted To Know If Any Of You Know Step By Step How To Dual Boot Windows Vista With Windows 7 Already Installed , i Tried To Do This One Time , But Ended With No Boot Manager Due To Not Understanding Well The Steps . Please , Any Help Will Be Appreciated , Thanks In Advance ...

Hy. I have installed windows 7 in C:\ drive and after than i installed windows Xp in D:\ drive. But now when i start my computer it automatically start windows Xp. in the C:\ i searched for the boot.ini it was windows xp written there also. please reply as soon as possible.

LinuxBSDos: The triple boot is GRUBby affair. Link Removed

Hey Guys, I recently installed Ubuntu on my second SSD, and must have accidentally installed GRUB on my Windows SSD. Now my windows SSD won't boot. This is not quite true actually. So here is what happens and system setup: SSD0 124 gb- Windows 7 64 bit UEFI SSD1 64 gb- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS...

Hi everyone I am having a major problem with my laptop (Dell inspiron 1520). The laptop starts up, whe the dell logo disappears I get some very quick beeps (there must be about 8 beeps in total). I then get a boot manager screen which shows windows 7 at the top, and windows memory diagnostic...

Everytime I start up i get this annoying screen: Link Removed due to 404 Error 1. How do I removed this from my startup 2. What is it? I have set my msconfig right: Link Removed due to 404 Error and i also did disable here: Link Removed due to 404 Error What the ****...

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...

As far as I know Win7 introduces a new Bootmanager system. At old WinXP times the bootmanager was put into the first bootable partition on the first hard disc. This partition could contain the actual Windows XP itself in addition. From Win7 times on Bootmanager should be installed in a...

I have one SATA hard drive that is loaded with XP and runs great as the only hard drive installed. I also have a SATA hard drive that has Windows 7 installed and when I remove the hard drive with XP and physically swap to the hard drive with Windows 7 that also runs great. My questions is this...

Hello all, Wow, this seems to be a great forum. Found a lot of information already. Also about using Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude 600. However, I have a little issue with the integrated controller, have not ran across any postings about that. I take it this would be the right forum section...

I Upgraded My Windows7 Starter To Ultimate Recently And Everything Was Going Fine, But I Wasn't Happy With The Disk Space Because I Had Ubuntu As Second OS And I Wanted More Space For Win7. ( Ubuntu Was In The same Partition As Win7 C: ). I Searched For Ways Of Increasing The Size Of The...

When W7 was still in evaluation mode, I did a dual boot thing on one of my XP boxes. Later, I bought W7 and installed it on it's very own computer. Now, I have an XP system that BY DEFAULT tries to boot into Windows 7. Which is no longer there. I don't MIND the dual boot questions that...

Where should I begin I keep getting the blue screen message every time i start my computer. It now takes four start ups before my windows will start up. Otherwise its starts and then shuts off midway through the process. I can be watching a movie and boom blue screen then the computer tries to...

I have been getting this blue screen message and its becoming increasingly more and more common. It takes my computer at lease three tries before I can get it to turn on. Meaning it will go through the start up process and then just shut off all i get is this blue screen message. Sometimes its...