I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD, itself in a new system which contains old HDDs.
My homemade Tyan Tiger server/ workstation works it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick Windows 7 from...
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