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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...

Working on an older Dell desktop for a friend of my son. It was her Mom's and she had it passed on to her. She usually uses a Mac but has been using this Dell because it has Office and Quickbooks on it for her businesses (she does home cleaning and also photography). Anyway she brought it to...

Okay, did a clean swipe of HDD and installed Windows 7 PRO with no problem - everything working fine. Then "appear" to have installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows. When I start the computer, I have the choice of either selecting Windows or Ubuntu. When I select Windows, I have NO...

So, after 3 days of frustration to get the Tux for TF2, I very stupidly uninstalled Ubuntu incorrectly, the result was no longer being able to boot Windows 7. I receive a BSOD after the Starting Windows screen. After some googling, it appeared my Master Boot Record was corrupt. I followed all...

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...

Windows 7 Pro and Windows XP PRO “Semi Dual boot” My question is labeled “”Semi Dual Boot” because I have a situation involving WIN 7 Pro and WIN XP Pro on the same computer. Background --How I got to where I need to make this post I had a WIN XP PRO, SP3 system installed,(100% genuine...

I installed ubuntu with wubi in windows7 64bit, and I had installed Mandriva 2011 with a disk. I tried to learn linux with Ubuntu and misused mke2fs; after I reboot my computer, windows7 and ubuntu has crashed. As I have mandriva, I boot into mandriva and found # df -h /dev/sda7 12G...

Hi, I was trying to make a dual boot system and came across this problem. Hope someone could help. I have two HDDs, one with Win XP in it and other in which I am trying to load Win 7. I made a primary partition (NTFS) through Win XP in the second HDD (labelled it I) and started loading Win 7...

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...

first of all this is the screen i get if i booted my pc from any windows 7 dvd or even vista dvd Link Removed sorry for bad quality (by mobile ) as u see background colors are interrupted and also no mouse no keyboard to continue .... now i will tell the story from the beginning 1) first ... my...

ok.. I have Win 7 Ultimate on Drive A Win 8 on Drive B Win 7 Premium on Dive C (just installed) during install.. all is fine, after 1st reboot, i see the win 7 boot menu... showing Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 7 Ultimate finished installing.. reboot again Win7 Ultimate boot option is gone...

I've had W7 on two computers that I built: My old one and my new one On the old comuter, W7 installed itself, boot loader and all, on a single partition. However, on my new build, W7 created a 100 mb "system reserved" partition leaving 111 G for data on one of my SSD's which I decided to use...

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...

Hi, I used to have Windows 7 which works flawlessly... I used to have linux Mint 11 dual booting with Windows 7, I recently upgraded to Linux Mint 12 and from that upgrade I cannot see the windows 7 option in the boot menu.. I tried to reinstall the boot loader of windows 7 from the Windows 7 CD...

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...

Hi, I had windows 7 and i installed red hat linux by creating a partition. When ever i boot the linux is the default OS which will come up unless i dont select the windows 7 manually. Now i wanted to remove the Linux so i removed the partition from windows. After reboot i see GRUB.Can you let me...