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    Windows 7 my computer appears to be epically screwed.

    for the last while my computer has been acting up. for the last few months my computer had been giving me problems. i had mandriva linux setup on a partitions with windows 7 as my main. i got locked out of windows because of a partition problem that i couldnt solve. my dad paid the guy at the...
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    Windows 7 How to edit/rename boot menu entries? Hide other Win7 primary partitions?

    On my computer I have 3 primary partitions: 1. "System reserve" which contains e.g.the Bootmamanger and MBR 2. First Win 7 installation ("main") 3. Second Win 7 installation ("reserve") When I boot now at first the Bootmanager on the first primary partition is called/started which in...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7/XP/XP Setup dual booting issue

    Hello, looking for some help with a couple of boot issues i'm having with my Windows 7 computer. I had better start from the beginning: This computer has 4 HDDs, 2x 1TB HDDs for storage, 2 for my seperate windows installations. Story: The first operating system was Windows XP and is...
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    Windows 7 Problems with partitioning new win7 system: For what are "Recovery" and "SystemReserved" Primary par

    I bought a new computer where Win7 is already pre-installed on partition C: In addition I want now to install a second "test" Win7 system on a NEW primary partition. AND a logical "data" partition. At startup I want to choose later between the 2 Win7 systems which one I want to boot. When...
  5. Windows 7 A problem after upgrading

    Hi so today i installed win7 and kept my vista os so i could dual boot and so on but when i restarted my pc i did't get a screen asking me for : win7 or vista , took me to win7 loading screen , so i opened up my computer and my hard drive for vista there but it does't appear when i...
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    Windows 7 Boot Manager is missing; after recovery using Acronis backup

    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...
  7. Windows 7 Getting rid of XP

    Hi Folks, I'm posting this to illustrate how I replaced\removed XP from my system in favor of Win 7. First some background. I've been using Win 7 since the beta as part of a multiboot setup on my Acer laptop. The other MS OS was my old XP install. My old XP was located at the...
  8. Windows 7 How to move Windows 7 boot manager

    I recently had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. I have 5 hard drives, 2 of which are on a RAID1 mirror, which happens to be where the OS is installed. For some reason, after installing the OS, I noticed that the Windows Boot Manager was placed on a different drive, apart...
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    Windows 7 Tips: Using Grub4Dos to Install Windows 7 from USB Pendrive

    Requirements: 1. MultibootISO > Install Grub4Dos easily into USB Flash Drive Get it here: Boot Multiple ISO from USB (MultiBoot USB) | USB Pen Drive Linux or here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/MultiBootISOs/MultiBootISOs-v1.4.8.exe 2. Windows 7 DVD, ISO or Source Files 3. Notepad++...
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    Windows 7 Trouble loading Windows 7 Pro

    Hi there, I've just built this computer GA-H55M-S2H MOBO running the Intel i5-750, 4 GB (2X2gb) DDR3 1333 PNY. Here's the problem, when loading Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, like alot of people it seems to take forever, but in my case I only get to the starting setup and after 6-8 minuter there...
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    Windows 7 Installing W7 On 2 Separate Drives

    Can someone advise please/ I have 5 hard drives in my system and I have installed windows 7 x64 on 2 separate drives and done this within windows. However a few times it booted okay but then started hanging on the post where it states verifying DMI pool data. Subsequently I tried everything to...
  12. Windows 7 Windows 7 And XP Bootloader problems

    Hi all, I can't boot Windows XP anymore. I have two OSs on my system. They are both on the same disk in different partitions. I have XP and Windows 7. I first installed Windows Vista, then Windows 7. Since I don't like Vista, I will return to Windows XP. So I reïnstalled Windows XP on the...
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    Windows 7 How do I get rid of WIN 7 Boot Manager?

    I tried to install WIN 7 to a NEW HD (clean install) since you cannot do a WIN XP upgrade install. I left my old C: drive (WIN XP) hooked up while I installed WIN 7 to the NEW drive. Afterward I decided that my computer is too slow to effectively run WIN 7 so I took the NEW drive out (WIN 7...
  14. Windows 7 I’m getting the ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt message

    Upon OS boot up, I’m getting the ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt message. It started after I re-partitioned some hard drives to free up some space. I booted up and got the error message. I tried to boot up to my back up OS and still got the message. I tried to re-install a drive image, using...
  15. Windows 7 Removing "Windows Boot Manager"

    Hello Guys, I want to remove the "windows boot manager" on my HD that is installed with Windows 7, or do not want that screen when I start the computer and there is the option to choose which system to boot. I have only Windows 7 installed on your computer. Thanks, Samuel
  16. Windows 7 Triple Boot ( Windows XP , 7 And Linux Backtrack)

    Hello there, how can I triple boot on 3 different partitions of 1 HDD Windows xp , 7 , and linux backtrack? :) Please help me, I tried and got bootmgr file missing... and I had to format cause I made something on Partition Magic that hided my partitions and now they are inactive..:S anyway if...
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    Windows 7 How to remove multiple OS from Boot Manager during startup?

    Hi, I have upgraded to Windows 7 and now when I start the PC I have to chose which OS to start with. However when I enter the msconfig file in the Boot tab only the windows7 is listed! Any idea how I avoid the need to chose during PC startup which OS to run? Thanks
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    Windows 7 Fresh windows 7 install and get a(BOOTMGR is missing)

    The erorr i am getting is BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del -- the funny thing is i can boot from the cd. What i have done to try fix this problem is: Go into the windows 7 installation and go to the repair option and did a start up repair( didn't work) Also did the BootBCD.exe cmd...
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    Windows 7 Dual boot xp and win 7 boot manager problem.

    I had windows seven installed first then i tried to install windows xp, not knowing the xp boot manager would over right windows seven boot manager, now it boots straight into windows xp. I have tried to use EasyBCD with no success. I can't boot up from the win 7 dvd because i only have the...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Boot issue: black screen cursor...

    I currently have Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit installed on my system. Was dual booting Windows Server 2008 on a second hard drive. I just put Server on the other day to play around with to get familiar with it and it has been working fine. I adjusted in 7 to make it the primary OS so Server would...