boot manager

I replaced XP Pro last night (Friday, 1/29/10) with a fresh copy of Windows 7 Pro (OEM version). I installed the new Win 7 OS on a freshly reformated pair of Raid-0 hardrives. Both are WD 80GB Velociraptor's. I also have another WD 400 GB, that's was being used for storage only, it is not a...

hi guys this is bugging me. I made the mistake of trying to install w7 to a laptop hard drive which wouldnt install in the laptop itself so i hooked it up to another pc with various cables and left the pc C: drive cable connected whilst I installed to the laptop drive. That was a mistake I...

Trouble with Dual Boot two installs of Windows 7 on different partitions - SOLVED I am a musician and use my computer for my recording. I also use the same machine for everyday use. In order to keep my music system clean and optimized, I would run a dual boot of Windows XP. I successfully...

Hi everyone! I've got a problem with my BCD file. I have two Hard Disks, one (500GB) with Ubuntu 9.10, Windows XP and Windows 7 and another with 80GB. Every OS is installed on the 500GB HD, but "magically" (and I still don't know why) Win7 have installed the boot sector (or whatever it is) on...

Hi everyone! I've got a problem with my BCD file. I have two Hard Disks, one (500GB) with Ubuntu 9.10, Windows XP and Windows 7 and another with 80GB. Every OS is installed on the 500GB HD, but "magically" (and I still don't know why) Win7 have installed the boot sector (or whatever it is) on...

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...

Hi, I have severe trouble to get my Windows 7 run as dual boot together with Windows XP. The situation is a little bit complicated: 1. I had my Windows XP installed on harddisk A as primary partition. I saved this installation with Paragon Drive Backup. In error I restored this Windwos...

Hi there, I had both XP and 7 installed on my PC, the XP was on an old 500GB drive I wanted to put into my GF PC, so I pulled it out, but it seems the boot manager was on that particular drive. I no longer get the option which OS to boot, XP was on the 500GB drive but the 7 is on a new drive...

Hi, Is it possible to dualboot XP? - I already have win7 installed, I beleive that XP has to be installed first for it to work??

I have windows 7 professional on my desktop at the moment, but im having some trouble with certain programmes that arent compatible. [Yes ive tried to run as admin and use the compatability thing all failed] I have a vista vista ultimate 32bit dvd that I was using before I took it off so I...

Hi. I have a big problem: I have Windows 7 and XP, I've reinstalled Windows XP and it starts automatically, I cannot choose among XP and 7. How can I restore the Windows 7 boot?

What a mess, did a XP install on my 350 GB drive, then win 7 install on my 1TB drive, everything was working fine could boot to either XP or win 7 at boot screen. Then I decided to setup up 0 raid with 2 TB drives for win 7, that worked fine, but have to change boot drives in bios to work...

This may be a stupidquestion but can you put snow leopard on a dual boot with win7. Im pretty good with computers but i have no idea This may be a stupid question but can you dual boot Win7 with Mac Snow Leopard with Win7 as primary.:confused: Ive got a Windows 7 and Snow Leopard Disc but Do...

For some odd reason, after doing some changes to my partitions in Windows 7 and restarting my computer, I got the ol' "BOOTMGR is missing" message. I have the Windows 7 Repair Disc image file and a 4GB USB Flash Drive, but, sadly, no CDs. Is there any way that I can put the image file onto my...

I used an OEM full-version Windows 7 pro disk to do a clean install (not upgrade) over windows vista home premium. Everything is fine except now there are two lines in the boot manager. The first is Windows 7 and the second is Windows Vista Home Premium (recovered). This computer was purchased...

Hi there, I have recently purchased a few computer parts and upgraded my computer. After putting it together, I switched it on and went to install windows 7 (hardware changes stop me booting my previous installation). (Note: I was previously using this windows 7 on my old mobo etc.) However...

I have a raid 1 system drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 had XP64 on it, partition 2 is a logical partition and is just storage, and partition 3 has XP32 bit on it. I got my copy of Windows7 and went to install over the XP64 install and it worked great. Now I can't boot into XP32. These...

Hi, I have been using Windows 7 with some pretty aggravating issues. I reformatted the OS and it was working fine for about a week until my computer at startup started going to blue screen, with a message stating "physical crash memory" dumping to disc and it tries to load to 100 and that's...

Hello all, I am new to the forum and searched for an answer to this question but couldn't find a definitive answer so here it is: I have Vista32 on my C: drive and Win764 on my K: drive which was partitioned for Win7. When booted to Win7, I believe Win7 is on C: and Vista is on D...

Hi, First of all, thanks for this amazing forum that really can help newbies like me. So, now, the problem I have. I had Windows Vista installed in my computer. I have changed, formating the disk with the Windows 7 installation disk. Now, when the computer boots, the former Vista boot...