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    Windows 7 disk clone and boot selection

    Pardon my cluelessness, but I'm trying to fix up a backup disk for my mother's Win7 machine. I will be installing a second drive that I intend to clone onto from the original. I assume such a clone will be bootable. But how do I tell the system which disk to boot on? As in, at startup, I ought...
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    Windows 7 Let Win7 on 1st prim part see Win7 on 2nd prim partition but NOT other way?

    I have here the following partitioning on my hard disc 1 primarypartition firstWin7system 2 SystemReservedPartition bootable active hidden 3 primarypartition otherWin7system 4 extendedLogicalPartition otherStuff When I boot now I got the boot selection menu from partition 2...
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    Windows 7 HDD Clones and Boot Selection

    I used Paragon Partition Manager 11 to make a clone of my "C" boot drive. "C" is the HDD in position 0. The clone is in position 1, which prior to the clone operation was "D". I am sure that if I removed HDD 0 and replaced it with HDD 1, the system would boot to Windows 7. (I have done this on...
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    Windows 7 Boot Error 0xc000000e

    Hello im hoping someone can help me. I was cloning a Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit install HDD on my HP Laptop and when it was done i removed the usb without safley removing it in the system tray. Now when i boot up (with the original HDD) i get an error: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or...
  5. psychx

    Windows 7 BSOD Before Installation

    Windows 7 Professional (MSDN) Windows 7 is currently installed on the PC in question. It is running and working. But, I am trying to format and reinstall via the Windows 7 disk. I put the Windows 7 disk in the CD-ROM tray, close it, and restart the computer. I enter the boot selection screen...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7/XP dual boot help please

    I just installed a full version of Windows 7 and I don't know how to set it up as a dual boot with XP. Prior to installing this full release version, I successfully had XP (installed first) on one hard drive, and Windows 7 RC on my second hard drive, in a dual boot setup. Now with the full...
  7. Violentlee

    Windows 7 Boot error 0xc000000f and I'm not dual booting

    I just loaded 7 two days ago on my 4 year old Dell Inspirion 9300 laptop that was running XP. I upgraded this laptop from the original 60Gb HD to a new WD 320Gb HD. Durin the last day or so, I've been having a blast getting it all set up, solving many errors on my own until this morning. I came...
  8. SylverCheetah53

    Windows 7 How to choose what O.S. to boot?

    Hy! I'm new so please, be nice. Link Removed Previously, I was using two operating systems - C: Windows XP x64 SP2; D: Windows XP x86 SP3. I was given ten seconds to choose the operating system, or it automacally shoosed the first one. Now, I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate RC on C, and...
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    Windows 7 Windows won't boot. Error 0xc000000f

    Hi, I am currently dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu intrepid. Everything was working fine until I attempted to install the cisco VPN (vista version) the computer froze during the installation so i had to to a hard reboot. After rebooting I get an a message saying that the computer was not...
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    Windows Vista Vista on Partitioned HDD

    I have a Vista RC1 dvd and i was wondering if it was possible to install it to my D drive on my hard drive...i would still have xp pro on the c drive..would it possible to have both and when u turn on the computer select which drive u want to boot off of?
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