drive selection

I need to do a clean reinstall Windows 11 Pro on my workstation PC. I usually disconnect all SSD/HDs except for the OS drive which is formatted and overwritten during a clean install. In this case, the PC has 4 NVMe drives - one of these will be the OS drive. The other 3 drives I want to...

I have installed windows 10 on three different drives and windows 11 on one drive. To install windows on each I had to remove the other drives from the PC. However this has created a bootloader on each drive and my system is now totally confused. I select the drive on sata port one as the main...

Hi I booted my computer yesterday and I got a drive selection menu. This has never happened before. The only selection was Windows 11. I selected it and got a message that said running memory check, and then in about 3 seconds it booted to Windows 11, and that was it. However, it took less...

i think i just dont get the idea of how boot works, though i have years of experience with computers. I have an SSD drive (connected via NVMe) work fine up until: - i connected another SSD drive (via SATA), then it booted into other windows OP on the sata drive. - i disconnected the sata drive...

Hi I just installed The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. No problems installing but be warned there are a few strange things in the install process, mainly be sure to click on Options if you don't want to install on drive C:\, and instead of asking you to change disks it asks for the next file it needs...

For several reasons, I'm considering adding a drive selector switch to my desktop, but all that I've found available are designed for a maximum of 6 drives. I want one that will handle 8 drives...5 SATA HDDs & 3 ODDs. I could put all of the ODDs on 1 switch, which would make the 6 drive switch...

Hi After having a failed attempt to go back to an earlier restore point (the computer just sat there for ever saying that it was restoring the registry, so I finally shut it off) my computer wouldn't boot so I tried several attempts at automatic repair from the disk etc. I started getting a...

I am running virtual XP mode in WIn 7. In XP I am able to map a drive G: that is from Win 7 mapped drive (Microsoft Terminal Services). Great, in Explorer you can see the mapped drive. I need to set up an ODBC connection to a database on that drive. No problem I thought. When I need to select a...

I recently installed an SSD in my laptop and moved the HDD to the secondary drive (I have room for two). I did a few of the prescribed steps for optimal SSD usage (moved user profiles to HDD, moved temp directory and page file, etc). Initially I was able to image only my C drive (about 30GB...

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I have just replaced my MB. It was basically the same type board except different chipset. Same processor, RAM and peripherals. I just let it boot from the installed drives and it eventually fixed most everything except for one thing. I have three drives. W7 is on one (A), a copy of W7 is on...

Why when installing Window7 has it installed in drive (d) rather than (c) that has XP Pro installed operating system installed. I did not see any option regaring the drive selection when I did the install. I have tried to format the (d) drive before starting again, but cant format it - It showed...

I want to clean install from a Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Upgrade disc. I currently am running Vista 32bit. When I get to the Drive Options, what should I do: 1) Select my existing partition and format or 2) Delete the existing partition and create a new partition is there any difference between...

I am going to do a clean install of Windows 7. On my HD I have a Recovery partition that was installed by the PC maker. I have my Vista disk and do not need the recovery partition. My question is this: When I perform the clean install and at the Windows 7 screen that is entitled "Where do you...