boot manager

Hey Guys I recently just bought an SSD and installed a fresh copy of Win 7. Upon completion everything worked fine until a recent restart the boot mgr couldn't be found. I did a startup repair and everything worked fine EXCEPT my secondary drive which had the old version of windows 7 on...

Hi All I am trying to get windows 7 to boot after installing it along side XP and Vista. The OS's are all on seperate HDDs, all SATA and Win 7 having the luxury of being on SSD. I have had the system on dual boot for about 2 years now and liking the flexibility, so I don't want to...

Ok so I originally have windows 7 rtm and i liked it but i wanted to boot windows xp so i made a new partition and installed xp on that. After the instalation it just booted up in xp and didn't give me an option to boot windows 7 or xp. So how could I get back to windows 7? thanks

Hello everyone. I know there's a lot of threads about this, I had a look on them but I can't find a solution for my problem. So here it is: My pc had Vista installed on drive C. Then, I installed XP on drive D and used vistaboot pro to manage the boot problem. Everything worked fine. Now, I...

Here is my boot manager info retrieved using the command line command: bcdedit As you can see the upper {bootmgr} area is pointing to the wrong device - partition=L I don't know why since this volume never had a OS installed? In windows 7 using computer management/disk management it shows the...

Windows 7 System Image Windows 7 has a feature called "System Image" to backup and recover the entire system. The image is compressed. You need a separate partition on your hard drive or a secondary hard drive. Windows 7 System Image does NOT create a bootable drive... nor does it include...

Hi. I'm trying to install W7 32-bit via partition/iso as per this link: Install Windows 7/ Vista on your Hard disc Without using any DVD/CD or Pendrive (USB drive) Although when I try to go through the step where you need to copy boot/bootmgr into the C:\ drive, it says "You need...

I cannot seem to figure this one out. I initially installed Windows 7 RC on my newer SATA Hard drive with my older but working Windows XP drive still active. I finished installation and went into Windows 7. All was good, so I was going to save a little power and heat and disconnect the...

Hello, chaps. And chappettes. I had a clean install of Windows 7, and decided I wanted to dual boot with XP, to go back and play some classic games. So, I make myself a new partition using Win7's built in partition manager, and installed XP on it. The install process went fine, my games...

I have a partition on my hard drive: C & D. My "C" Drive has good old Windows XP and "D" drive has Windows 7 release 264 pre-RTM (activated). I have not used XP for six months. I got the Win7 RC and kept upgrading all the way to release 264... compliments of ... WZor Question: I want to...

I have a partition on my hard drive: C & D. My "C" Drive has good old Windows XP and "D" drive has Windows 7 release 264 pre-RTM (activated). I have not used XP for six months. I got the Win7 RC and kept upgrading all the way to release 264... compliments of ... WZor Question: I want to...

I have never had one of these "reserved partitions, because I have always formatted first. For those of you who haven't here's how to take care of it. On a fresh (custom) installation of Windows 7, where Windows 7 is installed onto a new hard disk with unallocated disk space (no partition or...

I've been going at this all day searching, trial and error, and it's all very frustrating at this point. I wanted to try Windows 7 since it has been released in the RC status (because I had aquaintances try 7000 beta, and no one liked it). So I want to have it on my machine to tinker with and...

I use windows 7 RC by double-booting with XP, whilst Windows 7 is installed on .VHD and booted with windows 7 boot manager. I recently installed Primiere CS4 and it works well on XP but on Windows 7 it laggs. I have 2gigs of ram which is the minimum requirement for both Windows 7 and Primiere...

Hi I have installed W7 RC as a subsequent install to XPSP3. All was well. I need to reinstall XP however I do not want it to kill the boot manager. Any advice on how to proceede? Paul

Hi. I have a tri-boot system on my computer, running Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.04. I have Ubuntu's bootmgr GRUB running as the initial boot manager, and from there I can either boot into Ubuntu or Windows. The problem is, though, that Windows 7 installed its boot manager on Windows XP...

Hi All I recently installed Windows 7 which promptly took over the boot process and gave a rather curt name for my earlier Windows XP Pro SP3 installation as in "earlier version of Windows" or something. Then I installed Debian 5 which insisted writing GRUB to MBR and all hell broke loose...

I have oem Xp pro sp2 cd, im running W7, want to install XP to a seperate partition I have installed it thru boot cd sequence(i tried running XP from inside w7, but the menu had install Windows XP greyed out:confused:), but now have no boot screen How can i install xp pro with dual boot...

Hi, heres my problem, I've just installed Wimdows 7 64Bit onto another Hard Disc so as to keep this copy of XP safe. All went well it loaded and activated just fine I didn't even install any drivers for it but the video seems fine. So I have a look around all seems nice and as it should, I join...

Dell Inspiron 1720 (17â€Â￾) Laptop Computer (Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390, 160GB HDD, 3GB RAM) Replaced hard drive and did clean install Reinstalled DellMediaDirect, Reinstalled vista Home Premium Edition & Drivers and Utilities from factory disc. PROBLEM: Diagnostic boot...