mbr

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...

I have an Acer Aspire one AOA150 8.9" screen, 1GB of RAM, Intel GMA950, Intel Atom N270, and 160GB HDD. I have three partitions set up: one for XP, one for sharing files, and one for Windows 7 Build 7000. The problem is when I go to start Windows 7 I see the Vista loading screen with the green...

I'm new to installing multiple versions of Windows on my PC. I have a 500GB and a 250GB hard drive installed. I was thinking about making a 120GB partition from my 250 and dual booting. I have tried to make the partition in advance with Vista's Disk Management console in the Administrator Tools...