boot manager

Hello. Recently I downloaded the ISO for the new Windows 7 RC, but I don't have a dvd burner, so I took my Serial ATA drive and formatted it for NTFS, I attatched it to a working computer running windows xp, and from there I mounted the DVD ISO for windows 7, and installed it to the second...

HELP! My laptop battery died so went into hibernation automatically and tuned off. I turn it back on and all I get is a black screen saying: Okay I tried the steps but my laptop isn't picking up the disc. Its a samsung r60+ laptop running windows 7 7048? I think Please help, I have no idea...

I had this problem with beta build 7077 and now with rc1. If I leave my computer for a while it will stop responding to my mouse clicks and key presses, but my mouse will still move. This used to only happen overnight, but now it's happening sometimes after a few hours. Sometimes if I hit...

I have W7 installed on my 'C' drive and I have a 'D' partition that I would like use for Vista. Can I just install Vista and point to the 'D' partition? Do I need to install Vista first?

I put 7100 on a second partition on my p.c. so I could test it out since I have had to revert to 7000 paritition on this machine on all builds after 7022 due to internet loss bug. However I have solved the problem and am now ready to move the second partition over onto the first one, which I...

Hey everyone, just joined the forums as I just tried to install Windows 7. I used the word "tried" because I did not succeed in doing so... Background I was using Windows XP SP3 on a very old computer when I decided to try out Windows 7, just for fun. I knew the OS might be slower than XP, but...

Hello, nice forum this one, i learned a lot from here. I searched for my questions, i will try tonight see if i can solve the problem im having. I had Vist x86 installed, the only OS in my PC. For 2 days i tryed to install Windows 7 7048 x64 but everytime i get to the setup where i need to...

Hi, I've just installed a beta copy of windows 7 to my desktop thru virtual pc 007 and currently working(8 hours consumed for the installation). After copying the .vhd file to my virtual pc on my laptop, upon running, bootmgr is missing message appears. I tried to repair it using the win7 dvd...

This has just started in the last 2 days. Till then it ran great. I have the following hardware: MSI p45 neo 3 motherboard E8500 3.16 ghz wolfdale proc 4gb corsair xms2 6400(800mhz) 74gb western digital raptor visiontek radeon 4850 vid card I have xp as my boot on the main disk and windows 7...

ihave win xp on drive c and vista on d at first on boot manager i couldnt select any of OS it just boot boot from a defult OS i used vista boot pro to solve the problem and also easy boot but i could not do anything but switching between them by the" vista boot pro " that i inistalled in...

i have xp and win 7 dual booted. xp on c drive. i want to remove win 7. i dont want to merge the partions im going to use the 2nd partion to store files. my concern is what to do about the boot. can i just use partion magic to formate the win 7 partion. thanks for any help

Alright. I have two hard drives, C and Y. I installed Windows 7 on hard drive Y, and XP is on C. I want to boot and have the choice between booting between the two operating systems, but when I boot I only have the choice of Windows Recovery (Which doesn't work) and Windows XP Home...

Well to start off, my father is no idiot when it comes to computers, but this is no error we could not fix... My Story: (Pre-Windows 7) It started off when my little brother had installed an Ubuntu downloader the Windows XP called Wubi. The installer basically sets up a dual boot with Windows...

I have windows vista and windows 7 installed on separete hard drives. Everytime I start my computer it starts windows 7. What do I have to do so that I can choose witch OS I want to boot?

Hi all, I was running Vista on a single partition 300GB HDD. I had an old 400GB HDD that was on its last legs (used to be my primary one, but I feared it was failing so switched to the 300GB), so decided to stick the Win7 Beta on it. Apart from a few problems, installation was fine...

I have XP on one drive and 7 on the other. To change the drive I boot to I go into the Bios/Setup and move the XP or 7 drive up to the top of the boot list. Is there anyway I can get it to stop on boot up so I can pick my drive? Something like when you have two OS’s on one drive, each on...

k i have win7 as my only operating system and want to duel boot with XP is this possible and how would i do it, thanks.

Installing Windows 7 (64-Bit) on a dedicated hard drive for testing... Re-partitioned an unused hard drive and installed with no problems. Upon first start I received the following message: "hal.dll" does not appear to be on the install dvd (iso). my system: Asus P5K SE/EPU Intel(R) Core2 Duo...

I've searched some and it sounds like dual booting Vista and Windows 7 is simply a matter of creating a new partition and installing Windows 7 there. A few questions. Is it really that simple? Is there a need for another boot manager or repairs to it like with XP and Vista? Since this is a beta...

I'm planning to install the win7 beta on a secondary disk drive creating a dual boot option between win7 and XP. If and when Microsoft releases the full version of win7 for retail public sale, what do I do with the win7 beta on the disk? Will installing the full version overwrite or upgrade...