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I have a multi-boot system w/ Windows XP-64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, and developers copy of Win 7 Ultimate provided by Microsoft for testing. It is a full version, but will go inactive soon. I've installed Windows 7 in a 300Gb partition but want to purchase the correct copy Upgrade or...

Didnt find such a tutorial if I installed windows 7 on a partition of my vista or xp and then removing vista or xp if I decided to keep windows 7 permanently. by trial an error I managed to get it done with the following steps. if you are unsure, do a full PC backup first before you attempt...

Windows 7 boot.ini [Solved] Hello users of this forum, Im in big trouble, cause i need to access my computer but it´s not booting, when time to boot it tells me that the boot.ini is damaged. The main problem is that i only have here a DVD with windows RT, and now im running Windows 7...

I had my system running with dual boot Vista Ultimate (32bit) and XP professional (32 bit). These OS were both installed on 2 separate partition of a single physical Hard disk. Now, I just did a full install of 64Bit Windows 7 Ultimate, on the partition where windows XP was installed. I had...

Hello, I heard that Windows 7 runs pretty good on systems a few years old, so I thought I'd give it a try for the heck of it on mine. I'd like to dual boot with XP, with XP still being the primary OS I use. At some point, whether it's a couple weeks later if I end up not liking it, or in March...

I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2. Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions. I shut down and it rebooted just fine. But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition: Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK I know these files...

Hi, I am dual booting with XP and Win7, have both on 1 drive in 2 separate partitions. After installing Win7 one of my hard drives turned into a system disk (not the drive my OS's are installed on) and I cannot access it within Win7 only in XP. I have 6 internal hard drives and 6 external, the...

Hi guys I tried making a Bootable DVD from the 7048 build and then do a Clean install -- this fails with "A citical file couldn't be loaded" -- I KNOW my DVD is genuine so I assume that it's probably something with the way I was trying to create the BOOT record. I stripped the boot record off...

As an alert to people who may want to install Beta 2 on Dell laptops or computers with a emergency restore partition: Dell laptops have a hidden partition on the hard drive to restore the original operating system that came with the computer. To activate the emergency restore, you hit CTRL-F11...