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    Windows 7 boot.ini or BCD manager

    downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer shop...
    • bikertom
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    • bcd manager bcdedit beta boot.ini clean install computer setup dual boot easybcd formatting hard drive imgburn installation iso microsoft partition reformat sata drive western digital windows 7
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 won't boot on dual boot system

    Hi, I have a computer with two physical sata drives on one of which is a 32 bit version of XP. I had Vista on the second untill this past weekend when I pulled it to install the new Windows 7 beta 64 bits. Before installing I used Partition Magic to re-partition and format. All went well with...
    • radovitch
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    • 64-bit beta bios boot manager boot order boot sector corrupted files dual boot error message installation issues operating system partition reboot sata drive startup repair system drive troubleshooting windows 7 windows xp
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  3. Windows 7 Install fails ?

    While trying to figure the Code 5 error I have on one PC, I'm trying to install on another. All goes fine until I get the partition/disk to choose. I've only got a single disk in and I have a 40Gb partition spare on it which I select. When I press Next I get this message - Setup was unable to...

  4. Windows Vista Vista Home Premium + RAID 0 = noboot?

    My system: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ Asus Crosshair (nForce 590 chipset) motherboard (2) WD Raptor 75GB HDD in RAID 0 running off the nVidia RAID controller Seagate 500GB SATA HDD (was D:/ for My Documents on my XP Pro setup) 8GB of Kingston HyperX RAM (in XP Pro 32 bit it naturally displayed...
    • effigy3
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    • amd bios boot issues creative x-fi disk issues drivers graphics card hyperx installation motherboard operating system optical drive partition performance raid raptor hdd sata drive troubleshooting vista installation windows vista
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Win7 not seeing Sata Drive

    I have both a Sata (Seagate 500mB) and ATA Samsung installed in my computer. Vista installed on the Sata without problem and sees my ATA which I use mostly for backups. When I ran the install for Win 7 I installed on the ATA, install did not see the Sata. Now up and running I still cannot see...
    • thomsonr2000
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    • ata bios settings device manager driver issues file recovery hard drive hardware hdd issues installation issues media files msi motherboard raid controller sata drive seagate storage storage controllers troubleshooting vista compatibility windows 7 yellow exclamation
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 BSOD Memoray management Among other things

    Well i built this computer and it has been a nightmare for like a month now. I Keeep getting BSOD's Stating Memory_managment and once in a while i will get a page_fault_in_a_non_paged area or a IRQ Not equal too error. I have run Memtest and it ran for 4 hours then the computer crashed with a...
    • Lord Urklore
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    • bsod driver issues hardware issues installation issues irql error kinston ram memory management memtest network card nvidia page fault pc build pentium sata drive sli motherboard system crash troubleshooting windows vista wireless adapter
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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    Windows Vista Dynamic Dsik not booting after conversion

    I have installed VISTA Business on my Computer on a 500gb SATA HDD. Yesterday I resized the partitions using VISTA partition manager. In the process the setup changed to dynamic disk. I am a newbie to vista. After I rebooted the syetem I find thesystem looking out bootable media. But using...
    • tabascal
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    • boot issues data recovery dynamic disk newbie operating system partition management recovery partition resizing sata drive windows vista
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows XP I-Tunes is rubbish

    Angry I-Tunes is rubbish I have the 30Gb video I-Pod, it has about 250 albums and about 8 movies on it, there's around 9Gb of hard disk space left. As most of you know, your I-Pod will mirror what's saved on your hard drive on your computer in your I-Tunes saved data folder. Also as most of...
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    • anger apple backup cds clean install creative zen data loss disappointment frustration ipod itunes media management music files music organization pata drive playlist sata drive software issues user experience winxp
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support