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I have a question. One related to hard drives, multiple windows os', and BIOS. I wont waste time. Here's my question. I have save data on my old hard drive (disk) that I need to retrieve that is in the Windows7 "My documents recognized by Windows 8.1 (Windows 8.1 is on my new SSD). I am...

I have 1 TB HDD having w8 I have another 40GB HDD having w7. When 1 TB HDD is selected as first hdd to boot from, it doesn't boot. There is some error message right at the start and nothing proceeds. When 40 GB HDD is selected as first hdd to boot from, it duly proceeds to boot from w8, it...

Ok so i had a dualboot setup with windows 7 and ubuntu. I decided to remove the ubuntu partition to install windows 8 instead. I used Easybcd to change the bootloader from grub to windows 7 bootloader, and i then deleted the ubuntu partition. I also deleted my windows 7 recovery partition to...

Hello windows7forums community, i reacantly took a EQUIINET Cachepilot (Basic Version) Link Removed due to 404 Error and tryed to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate for a media center pc. When i boot (I have removed all of the partitions and volumes shown in windows disk manager) anyway when i...

LinuxBSDos.com: One tool that has seen very little or no change over the past several releases in Ubuntu Desktop is the installation program. So it is somewhat surprising that some users are having problems dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 using a tutorial written for Ubuntu 11.04. Link...

So some time ago I installed Ubuntu and I've ever since been irritated by having GRUB for my bootloader. Stupidly, yesterday I tried to change that. Here are all the steps I've taken so far: Tried to change bootloader whilst I was logged into Windows 7. Rebooted and it had failed miserably...

Instructions on how to install a Dual-Boot Windows 8 developer preview without any DVD and re-installl with the developer tools version if needed as well Instructions on how to install a Dual-Boot Windows 8 developer preview without any DVD and re-installl with the developer tools version if...

My harddisk has 4 partitions 1st - bootloader 2nd - win7 3rd - win7 ghost image from 2nd win7 (logical disk) 4th - recovery After using easybcd to add 3rd partition win7 and boot in I find that the system drive for this win7 is D: & using user profile in C: and basically if i install a new...

Hello :) I've got Windows 7 along with Fedora 16 (newest update) installed on my notebook with GRUB2 as the bootloader and I can't get hibernation to work in Windows. I've tried few tricks that I found in the web but neither of them worked. When i try to hibernate the screen turns black and...

ok, so..... a guy that recently did a reinstall and included Ubuntu. now i have TWO boot loaders to deal with: 1. Grub (the linux one) and 2. windows boot loader so i have to select "windows 7" in the linux one, then it goes to the windows one where i select "windows 7" again. this is very...

Past situation: Originally I had XP and win7 working in a dual boot with XP the computers original OS and Windows 7 added later and everything worked fine. This is on an SSD harddrive. Yesterday- I needed to use Gparted to make Windows 7 partition larger as it was getting a bit small. Gparted...

Question for me will the Linux boot loader see my Vista 32 and W7 64 bit Operating systems during install

Alright, A few days ago I tried installing a 64 Bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate on my computer on a different partition. Now the installation itself didn't give any trouble and both the windows i.e The old 32 bit and 64 bit can boot without problems. However today I decided to get rid of...

I installed Fedora on my system preinstalled with windows 7. Now during booting Windows 7 is not appearing. It is only showing Fedora. But it should show both the os and allow us to choose. Help me to resolve this. Thanks in advance.

Hello guys Hope you can help me with this, because I really need to get my Server 2003 running, as that is working platform (need it for my job). I had three operating systems in my computer: Ubunt, Win XP and Win Server 2003. Grub was the booting program, that offers you go to Windows...

As i said in the title i apologize for yet another dual boot Xp W7 post, iv searched and solved my problem partially but now another issue has arisen and im unsure on how to continue. Il start from the beginning. My PC just had XP 64 Prof on a sata HD but i bought a new sata HD to install W7 64...

Good morning, my PC has two internal hard drives. One with Ubuntu installed and the other one with Win7 x64. After problems on Win OS, I decided to re-install it but, after re-booting from installation disc, it freezed, so I decided to re-install from inside Windows. That compelled me to work...

Hi guys I've recently assembled a new PC and installed W7 on it, only to then find that some of my cherished software won't run on W7 whereas it did on my old pc running XP (which has now been dismantled and cannibalised). So I've decided to make my new machine a dual boot. Having looked at...

I recently got a new harddrive, I backed up my C: drive to an external drive, then cloned the C: drive to the new drive, then I swapped the drives out and fixed the bootloader, however the bootloader also found the backup. I recently deleted the backup and had to restart. When I tried to load...

All right Guys, this little weird and complicated. I have 2 versions of XP in my C drive and D drive respectively. (I use D drive xp mainly and C drive XP is for maintenance incase I get virus in D drive, I know its little weird)But anyways i installed WIN 7 on my E drive (all 3 os in same...