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  1. IanHHH

    Windows 10 Uefi multiboot has boot manager on every drive

    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...
    • IanHHH
    • Thread
    • bios boot issues boot manager bootloader computer setup disk management drive selection easybcd efi multiboot os installation partitioning recovery repair sata system configuration troubleshooting uefi windows 10 windows 11
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 10 Boot issue: i cannot run windows anymore, after conneted another SSD

    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...
    • danezeq
    • Thread
    • boot issue computer experience drive selection nvme operating system recovery sata ssd troubleshooting windows
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  3. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 8 Boot Issues!!!

    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...
    • MikeHawthorne
    • Thread
    • automatic repair bios boot issues boot menu computer startup device recognition drive selection error message hard drive paragon reboot problems restore point system image tech support troubleshooting windows boot windows recovery
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 mapped drive not showing in dropdown in virtual XP mode

    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...
    • bubu678
    • Thread
    • bug report database drive selection explorer mapped drive odbc connection terminal services user inquiry virtual xp windows 7
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  5. S

    Windows 7 Creating a Windows 7 Image of the C: drive only

    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...
    • someotherguy
    • Thread
    • backup bios boot files data backup disk management disk order drive selection drive size dual boot hdd image optimization partitioning regular backup software ssd system image windows 7
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    What Is RAID

    The article covers Advantages of RAID, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 10 or 1+0, RAID 5, Software vs. Hardware RAID and Drive Selection What is RAID?
    • Adamsappleone
    • Thread
    • advantages capacity configuration data management data redundancy disks drive selection end user enterprise hardware raid performance raid raid 0 raid 1 raid 10 raid 5 reliability server software raid storage
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: General Computing
  7. R

    Windows 7 How to---make system boot from correct drive

    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...
    • ruggb
    • Thread
    • bios boot boot menu chipset drive selection hard drive motherboard system configuration windows 7 windows xp
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  8. S

    Windows 7 Windows7 has installed on 2nd drive (d) not as requested (c)

    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...
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