mbr

Hi there. I'm having a problem that I've never had in the 12 years I've been glued to my computer screen. A couple of days ago I decided to go with a dual-boot setup, Linux and Windows. I didn't keep the dual-boot for more than a couple of hours so I decided to format my drives. After...

Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. I dual booted my computer with ubuntu 10.04 beta and windows 7. At first they played nicely, ubuntu has access to the windows partition, and windows could still boot. Hell World of warcraft even ran smoother using WINE and openGL...

I've had my computer for about a year running XP with 2 harddrives in RAID (mirror). My motherboard, Asus P5NE SLI, has the RAID controller built in. These 2 drives are my only drives (other than an external USB drive). I wanted to get rid of RAID and just have 2 regular drives and install...

Hey everybody. So the full error code in blue screen after booting (after win7 loading logo) is: Had the autocheck bad boy as well: Eliminated it via registry. So, pretty much only 0xc000003a is left. Also, autocheck as I understand is just an indicator of a problem rather than a cause...

Hey everyone. First off, Happy New Year! Feels good to be done with 2009 and have a fresh start :] That being said, I'm havig trouble with my operating system and was hoping someone here could help me out. I received a Missing Operating System error message upon boot and have unsuccessfully...

Hi all.. Just wondering, is there any system tool i can use to backup MBRs / MFTs of NTFS partitions ? I mean not third party tools.

Hi all. I hope someone has the answer for this. 1) I installed Vista in the first partition of my hard disk 2) I installed Windows 7 in the second partition of my hard disk 3) Bootmgr and BCD directory are installed in the partition containing Vista. On booting I can choose perfectly. Now the...

windows 7 is installed on a hp7700 machine...and works fine, but if i try RESTART it wont boot??? If i use shut down it goes down and stays off as it should, and if i power it on again it boots up and everything works. The only problem is when i try to restart...it goes down but somehow loses...

Hi. I Have a problem starting up the newest windows after instalation of older windows with dual boot mode. I installed XP 32bit from windows 7 onto another hard disk. Afterwards, It does't allow me to start Windows7. It freezes at "Verifying DMI pool data". After reading some forums, I...

Hello! I installed Ubuntu, but now want repair the mbr so 7 is the only boot option. Is there a way without reinstalling the os? Thanks in advance! Oh, never mind! Easy-peasy EasyBCD!

Hello everyone. I know there's a lot of threads about this, I had a look on them but I can't find a solution for my problem. So here it is: My pc had Vista installed on drive C. Then, I installed XP on drive D and used vistaboot pro to manage the boot problem. Everything worked fine. Now, I...

I have been trying to get a friends computer running reliably off and on for over a month. The issue is an incompatability between vista, the mother board and video card. I did find a work around but it left the machine hamstrung. I had hopes a clean install of windows 7 would resolve the issue...

I've installed windows 7, no problem there. When I want to to boot for the first time, my computer keeps resetting it self. This restarting happens directly after the bios is loaded (so I see my harddsik and mem check and when you would expect the bootscreen it resets and my computer starts...

Well Well, Let me explain my experience of Disk Management in Windows 7! To start off I ordered a brand new hard drive, installed it into my pc. I booted up win7 "at the time with the current hard drive I was using for win7" , at first windows 7 recognized the new drive but asking for "Win7" to...

Good day I installed windows 7 on my laptop last night on a empty partition (d) and (c) still has windows Xp on it i was surprised when system it booted i was under the impression that a hard drive could only have 1 (one) mbr on it in the first partition, Now keep in mind i ran out of time...

Okay, So three weeks ago I installed Windows 7 RC, and I was happy with it. So happy with it, in fact, that I proceeded to install quite lot of applications on it. Anyway, last night I was installing the Dreamweaver CS4 trial, downloaded officially from their website. All of a sudden my PC...

windows 7 keeps restarting when there is a hidden primary NTFS formatted partition I assume it tries to install it's bootmanager there but is then unable to finish the installation why is it that windows 7 can detect a hidden partition during installation and then decides to use it anyway even...

Hi All I recently installed Windows 7 which promptly took over the boot process and gave a rather curt name for my earlier Windows XP Pro SP3 installation as in "earlier version of Windows" or something. Then I installed Debian 5 which insisted writing GRUB to MBR and all hell broke loose...

Hi there! Ive come across the "Installation BlackScreen" while trying to install RC. Everything runs just great until its time to "Complete the installation", then it just turn black the HDD and Disc stops spinning. Simply nojoy. Ive tried all the possible solutions ive found so far without any...

Have lost MBR or similar since installing W7 on one HDD. Can't get bcdedit to run, opens then closes. How do I recover, create or edit MBR with W7, please? All help very welcome - David in Norfolk U.K.