fixmbr

hi everyone been getting Inaccessible boot device also error 0xc0000001 when I use boot disk to get into safe mode ,tried the following commands bootrec /FixMbr success. bootrec /FixBoot access denied, bootrec /RebuildBcd failed Bootrec.exe/Scanos: scan for installations o, anyone know what...

Hello everyone, I was reading on FixMbr and FixBoot. This is what I've come to understand in distinguishing the two: FixMbr = Selects the defined (\Device\HardDisk0) hard disk from which the partition to load the o\s is located. FixBoot = selects the partition on the defined disk where the o\s...

I installed windows 8 on a new partition on my really old computer. Something I did made windows 8 not boot anymore (I don't want it on my computer, I want to fully revert back to XP). But, XP won't boot either! The error message when trying to boot xp is: Windows failed to start. A...

Okay, I'm screw, ever since last night, my HP ask me (yes she did) if I want to switch my graphic (I have dual graphic one is intel and one is ATI mobility Radeon), I click okay to switch to power saving graphic intel, and so the screen blacks out. It never respond after black out, I made hard...

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...

recently i installed ubuntu 11.04 . now i hav deleted the ubuntu partition using windows disk management. now i cant boot the windows os! :( even i tried the FIXMBR commands! now it is showing ' BOOTMGR not found" can any one help in this issue...

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...

Hi All, I have a single 500GB SATA HDD in my computer. (Rest of the specs are : 24x HP SATA DVD R/W, Intel C2D E7500 processor, Intel DG41RQI MoBo, Kingston 800 MHz 2GB RAM). When I first setup my hard-drive, I first installed "Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit" on D: drive then "Windows 7...

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 guys, i'm really hoping someone can help me out. I recently used the @bios utility from Gigabyte to update my motherboard bios. I've used this plenty of times in the past on Vista 64 bit with no problems. However this is the first time i've used it with Windows 7. It went through the usual...

I used to have Ubuntu dual-booted with my Windows 7 and I just recently removed it because I wanted this computer to run just Windows 7 only. My only problem is that I can't run Windows 7 when I remove Ubuntu because the GRUB Loader is in the way. I know there's a fix of some sort about typing...

I installed W7 but needed to get rid of it (I did the 32-bit and I'm going to get 4 more GB to bump to 8GB of RAM soon so need the 64-bit) but I am stuck with the W7 boot menu and I can't get XP's back! I have a 500GB drive that I had 320 to XP and 50GB then the rest (about 75GB) unallocated. I...

Hello. Recently I downloaded the ISO for the new Windows 7 RC, but I don't have a dvd burner, so I took my Serial ATA drive and formatted it for NTFS, I attatched it to a working computer running windows xp, and from there I mounted the DVD ISO for windows 7, and installed it to the second...

I was trying to set up a dual boot windows 7 with vista and was using a partition software and I mistakenly formated the 1st partition on my hard drive. It was a small partition of 1.5 MB and I think that is where the MBR was installed? Anyway after that I tried to fix the problem and as far as...

Hello, I'm curious how i can delete Windows 7? Is it just fixmbr in XP recovery console and then delete the partition with the use of gparted or something?