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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...

Hello everyone, after trying for several hours to install windows 7, I hope that I can find help here. I am trying to install windows 7 to the second hard drive in my laptop in a manner which ignores the first hard drive completely. My laptop contains 2 hard drives. The first drive (with...

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on my laptop, running the grub bootloader, debian as the main os, and windows 7 as the secondary, how can i ghost it to a larger drive (from 250 split into two partitions, into 500 split into 2 partitions, 250 gigs for each)? im wondering this, because when i ghost the drive using norton ghost...

So, I have XP pro. I got Win 7 Ultimate and installed it on a different partition. Boot loader sees Win 7 and sees "an older OS". I select the other OS and it gives me an error of "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll ". I know...

I have 3 operating systems on my Computer. Drive C is Active and Primary and has Win Xp. Drive D has Wind 7 Drive E is used for my data and backups. after that i installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. i have the concepts about the boot loader. i dont want to keep XP now. and want to format...

I screwed up my boot loader so i installed windows 7 and i can log in and everything. I was wondering if it would be possible to add my windows vista partition to the boot loader with my windows 7. The windows vista doesen't seem to show up on anything including easyBCD.

Hi there I recently bought a new Gateway desktop. I added another hard drive to it and installed Ubuntu on it. Ubuntu installed the Grub bootloader to the wrong drive, the Windows 7 drive. All this happened before I made the Gateway Recovery Backup disks. I managed to fix the Windows 7 drive...

Hi all, I can't boot Windows XP anymore. I have two OSs on my system. They are both on the same disk in different partitions. I have XP and Windows 7. I first installed Windows Vista, then Windows 7. Since I don't like Vista, I will return to Windows XP. So I reïnstalled Windows XP on the...

Hello, hi everyone I hope to be collaborative with the entire group and good friendship between us I have in my PC a windows seven.I made a partition to install Windows XP on. I installed but the problem that my system starts automatically on XP without giving me the choice between the 2...

My computer won't boot into XP or 7 anymore after adding/remvoing extra hard drive I have 1 hard drive 3 partitions: 1 XP (C) 2 7 (E) 3 Documents (X) I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows...

Okay i have been using Windows 7 for approximately 10 months and it never gave me any trouble...i have using it all along as the beta versions rolled in to the final 7600 build. None gave me problems. But just a few days ago i rebooted my computer and then my windows 7 got stuck at a black...

Hi I orignally had windows 7 professional 64 bit on my laptop. I had a 10 Gb partition, which i divided in SWAP and / mount to install Ubuntu Linux. My computer now loads into Grub loader. All is well, its just now i want to get rid of Linux. (I will install it on desktop and mess around with...

Greetings, Yesterday a sudden disk crash got me new 512GB drive and I decided to use the mishap to play with GPT partition tables. In addition to the different Windows versions, I use different flavors of BSD a lot and on my systems I often feel a little bit limited by the number of bootable...

have a Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows 7 RC dual booting with MacOS 10.5.8 on two separate partitions on one 160GB drive. Windows 7 has been running great since installing on release day, this morning after i turned my laptop on, i got to the Windows bootloader, selected Windows 7, it then...

I had windows7 installed on a 500 gig hard drive. i shrunk this partition (465gigs) by 10 gigs, and i wanted to install windows xp on the 10 gig partition. So once the partition was made, i booted from the xp install disc and it installed on the 10 gig partition but when the computer restarted...

My wife's Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop came with Vista Home Premium on it. She couldn't deal with Vista so I set it up to dual boot XP Home also. This is it's hardware: Motherboard: CPU Type Mobile DualCore AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 1900 MHz (9.5 x...

Hi, I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...

Hi everyone! i am using Windows 7 professional. i wanted to install Linux, using unetbootin. in fact unetbootin creates a boot option and we have to choose that option to install Linux. After installation, when we boot Windows unetbootin promts to uninstall and it also removes boot option for...

Basically while I was running Windows 7 I wanted to clone my 149GB Hard Drive to a 500GB partition on my 1TB HardDrive, with Ubuntu taking up the other 500GB. I coulnd'nt clone using Windows tools because I always had an error of some sort. I then tried cloning using various Ubuntu tools on the...