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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...

Let me begin by saying I think Mint 12 is a terrific OS, which I am using on several computers. But I have computers on which I use Music Bee in Windows 7 for my music files and want direct boot to Windows without any disk space devoted to Mint. I spent several days looking at complicated...

Presently, I have Win 8 CP on a 40GB WD HDD. What I'd like to do is dump Vista, which is installed on one of my better hard drives, slide Windows 7 over beside XP Pro x64, rebuild the MBR & do a repair install to that. Then, using Mini Tool Partition Home Wizard, copy my Windows 8 install to...

Ok, so first things first, I am not a retard, I have been using pc's all my life, I have had very few problems ever, and never one I have never been able to solve on my own with some google help. this week I have spent many many many hours researching and trying fixes for this with no success at...

Hi Guys I need help, this is my first time using Acronis and I don't want to blow it. I'm ready to do a restore to solve my corrupted type and a few related problems. I'm booting from the Acronis Recovery CD. Once I'm in Acronis I have a few questions. I select Recover My Disks. In Archive...

hi, first i'd just like to say i dont know much about this part of computers so if you can help please exaplain clearly. so, my laptop is getting fuller,slower and i would like to return it to how it was when i bought it. so i thought i'd reinstall windows. i put in the disk and boot up my...

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...

Details: Toshiba NB250 1gb ram 250gb hdd here's what i did the netbook came with win 7 starter then i entered recovery environment pressing f8 then command prompt then format drive c then booted up with my external hard drive which have the bootable iso fo windows 7 then pressed install...

ok, so..... a guy that recently did a reinstall and included Ubuntu. now i have TWO boot loaders to deal with: 1. Grub (the linux one) and 2. windows boot loader so i have to select "windows 7" in the linux one, then it goes to the windows one where i select "windows 7" again. this is very...

I had to reformat my Win 8 DP partition and then restore from an Image I had created. When I did this I lost the fancy new Win 8 DP Boot Screen (boot loader). I did have to go into Win 7 and use EasyBCD to add my Win 8 DP OS to the MBR, but the boring old Win 7 boot screen comes up, even when I...

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...

So I know this may seem very very noobish.. I am attempting to clean up a failed attempt on dual boot winxp on win 7. In the process I pushed a few to many button and deleted my MBR partition. Now the volume is unallocated and attached is picture of my disk management. Question is: 1. If i turn...

I installed my copy of Windows 7 in the second partition of my HDD. I keep my Windows XP in my primary partition (long story short: I'm migrating to Windows 7 but I have a lifetime of work built on my XP system that I can't afford to lose. Thus, Win7 was installed on my system on a purely...

System displays a warning message "Windows cannot be installed to this disk" when installing Windows on MBR partition in UEFI mode Link Removed

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387752,00.asp As you might notice, in the full article title, Microsoft also says to "Re-install Windows", which was Microsoft's original recommendation. Reading the full article, you will note that, nowhere, does it say you have to re-install...

I started having some severe system hang - checked event viewer and found "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0" many times over. I have an EVGA 680i SLI (122-CK-NF68) - updated chipset/storage drivers - no fix. I opted to reload Windows. Previously I had...

l am having a problem with installing due to a disk partition problem.. Im getting an error that says "The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems Windows can only be installed to GPT disks" I have no clue and reading other forums it sounded like specific computers were...

My build: Intel core i5 2500k ASUS P67P8 Pro MOBO F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL G.Skill 2x4gb CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 So I put the computer together and attempted to install Windows 7 home premium 64. I got the same error over and over again than fixed it by changing ram positions and was able to install...

Ok, i had a complete system running windows 7 and i just did a new build. I took my sata hd's out of the first build and used them in the new build. I had a 320g and a 1tb. I installed the 320g by itself and installed w7. Now i plugged in my 1tb drive with all of my personal files that i had...