mbr

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.

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...

Okay so I currently use Vista HP x64 and want to install both Windows 7 RC versions (x86 and x64) on a seperate hard disk to compare some compatability things that my Vista x64 box can't do as it is 64-bit. The programs in question are the old Worldgroup/MajorBBS (and assorted games that i have)...

After installing Windows 7 cannot boot anything else - This one's different Hi, I have installed Windows 7 RC Build 7100. The Problem --------------- Windows 7 is essentially working fine except that it has prevented me from booting up my XP partition. The worst thing, no Boot Loaders I...

I have a new Sony Vaio laptop running Vista x64. It's a Sony motherboard with an EFI setup using InsydeH2O software (in place of BIOS, as I understand it). My HDD is currently in 3 partitions (a Sony hidden restore partition, my C: drive and a D: data partition). When I try to install W7 RC...

Hi guys, hope you help me with this issue, I have installed windows 7 beta on another partition (primary) and I have xp installed on the active primary partition originally. The problem is after finishing installation of windows 7, without the install disk I can't boot into os selection which I...

Whoops, typo in title :-( Hello world!, The situation: I have two hard drives in my computer, Each with two partitions. Hard Drive One has two partitions which are just used for storing stuff. Hard Drive Two has two partitions, first one is for XP, and second is for Windows 7 C: is windows 7...

Hi, I am dual booting with XP and Win7, have both on 1 drive in 2 separate partitions. After installing Win7 one of my hard drives turned into a system disk (not the drive my OS's are installed on) and I cannot access it within Win7 only in XP. I have 6 internal hard drives and 6 external, the...

How do i install windows 7 on a 2nd internal harddrive, without it writing a MBR to my main drive. I want it to totally not touch anything on my primary drive. I plan on booting it at the bios startup by my bios selection menu Im afraid to install it, i dont want my main drive touched in...

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...

I have Windows XP Pro installed on my 120GB. I had the bright idea of dual booting Windows 7. So, I decided I would put that on the 320GB. Windows 7 worked fine but would not dual boot with the XP install. The XP install is intact, but the only way to boot it is to unplug the 320GB Windows 7...

I have xp installed on a sata drive 0 Partition 0 I have vista installed on ide drive 0 I have mandriva installed on ide drive 1 The grub mbr is on sata drive 0 partition 0 and boots all three Boot Mandriva Boot Windows-XP Boot Windows-Vista Now I installed Win7 on sata drive 0 partition 1...