boot sector

trying to move my C:\ drive to a new SSD, tried easeus clone but pc wont boot from ssd after clone, used easybcd 2.3 to fix boot sector on ssd, didnt work, tried bcdboot C:\Windows /s E: in shell/admin said boot files copied, ssd will boot to a recovery screen with error cant load...

ASUS zn241IC Al in One PC runnign windows 10: a Friend texted me this a.m this picture it their BIOS screen on their ASUS all in one. They said the machine was acting really slow, she had clicked an icon to do something and "The little blue circle was spinning really really slow and it wasnt...

Hallo Forum, once I've made a backup of my System-Partition of Windows XP 64 Professional including the MBR. As you can expect by this topic it doesn't work out as expected. To keep it short, after a lot of trouble I'm at the point where it seems that I have the VBR/Bootsektor at partition 2...

I have 2 SSDs with Windows 8.1 on one. I unplugged this disk and installed Windows 10 on the other SSD. I wanted to plug both in and select the boot disk in Bios so I could boot either windows 8.1 or Windows 10. It works great MOST OF THE TIME. However, I occasionally get the message "no...

Drive E 'main data partition which contains all my important files' becomes RAW (not NTFS) after extending OS Drive C using partition wizard 9 software which finished successfully without errors! (all details available below): MY HARDDISK WAS RUNNING WITHOUT PROBLEMS BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE...

Suffered a head crash on a laptop's C: drive. Was able to recover nearly all the data using Linux tools, but the boot sector and some critical Win 7 files were damaged beyond recovery, so I have been unable to create a bootable volume using that info. I cloned the data to a new physical volume...

Assume I created a bootable USB stick with some additional software on it. Now I want to backup the whole stuff into an archive file on my hard disc. If I would have an CD/DVD I could create a well known ISO file for it which contains everything. How do I do this for an USB stick? If I just...

My daughter forgot her password for her netbook running Windows 7 Starter, so first I used Ophcrack, which was unable to get the password. I then proceeded to try Kon-boot 1.0, which bypasses the Windows login screen, only for it to break something. To be fair, it was my fault for not...

Was just reading this article concerning a new version of Ransomware that seems to be emerging. Seems to prompt with a message, that your system is locked and if you pay, they'll send you some code to unlock it. Malware blocks booting - The H Security: News and Features Seems like the /fixmbr...

Hi, I Hope someone can help. I have just run PartedMagic on a new Windows 7 system to shrink C: in order to be able to create an E: (Data) partition. On rebooting, I get the following error message: As it is a new machine, it was supplied with no system disk and I don't have a Windows 7...

I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD, itself in a new system which contains old HDDs. My homemade Tyan Tiger server/ workstation works it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick Windows 7 from...

I recently upgraded my proc, mobo, and added memory. I reinstalled WinXP and subsequently attempted upgrading to Win7. For some reason my boot sector now gives me 2 choices, 1. former operating system 2. Windows Rollback. I upgraded my Laptop and this did not happen. Upon booting the Desktop...

I have a system with two harddrives, one with Vista and one with Win 7. Vista drive was used to boot the system. Recently Vista drive dies, so I tried to boot from Win 7 drive. Since bootsector isn't there I can't. How do I make the remaining Win 7 drive bootable? Thanks in advance for any...

hi i have a laptop with windows 7 and it worked great until today, i saw a article about removing system reserved partition, so i removed it by booting with win7 installation dvd but after that my laptop wouldnt boot, it only shows "operating system was not found" and i tried this way...

I need to get some help with my boot menu. I used to have my PC set up with a dual boot (XP & Windows 7). Now that I am getting used to XP mode I have removed the XP installation and reclaimed the space. That all went well. My problem is that the boot menu stills offers both O.S. at boot-up. I...

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...

I have 2 250gig hard drives in my system. I have xp pro installed on one(partitioned and first is primary and active drive(0)) and Installed Windows 7 on the second drive. After windows 7 is the only os choice on boot. I can use the bios boot option at startup and boot into xp so I know the...

I'm not sure WHY I thought this would be painless, but... Downloaded Windows 7, 64-bit from the official site. Burned it to a DVD using the less-than-a-year-old Samsung burner. Tried the install and got the familiar "missing install.wim" message. Burned ANOTHER DVD using 2X just in case...

Hi, I have a computer with two physical sata drives on one of which is a 32 bit version of XP. I had Vista on the second untill this past weekend when I pulled it to install the new Windows 7 beta 64 bits. Before installing I used Partition Magic to re-partition and format. All went well with...