system disk

Hello! I am having some serious issues with my computer! I have a Gateway with a Western Digital HDD. I do not know the specifics, but I could look them up if you could tell me where to look! I am good with computers - just not computer language, so bear with me! I installed Windows 7 32-bit...

I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...

I have Windows 7 on two computers. On one of the computers i want to downgrade from 7 to XP. I have the XP installation disk, but whenever I put the disk in to attempt to boot from it during startup, it bypasses it and boots normally. I checked the BIOS and disk is set to boot before the HD...

i was using windows vista and then i installed windows 7 on a diferent partition. now windows 7 was on drive C and vista on E. today i decided to delete the vista partition and after doing that (with paragon partition manager) i got the "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"...

Hi. I cannot install Win 7 (pro, 64 bit). After booting cd/dvd the following text appears: "disc boot failure, please insert system disc and press enter" I have SATA dvd. I 've checked that when I plug ATA dvd there is no problem. What shuld I do to instal Win 7 using my SATA dvd...

What is W7 using the 100 mb system disk for? is it for recovery files? I know w7 can now make an actual restore image can you use this partition for that? just wondering

I have a dell processor running at 2.18GHz with 4 GB of ram. When I got it I just used a 32 bit version of Vista. I am now ready to install Windows 7 and was wondering if there would be a probem of installing a 64 bit version of Windows 7 over my 32 bit version of Vista. One thing that I...

I will be installing Windows 7 this week on a PC currently using XP. I understand that the XP to 7 upgrade path requires a clean install. And I assume with this a reformat of the system disk. This PC has two drives - C: and D:. These are two different physical drives. Not partitions of one...

Hi all. This is probably a newbie type question, but as much as I've worked with computers over the years, I've just never done this. Plus I'm wondering if Windows 7 has capabilities that might make this easier. I recently home-built a new computer for my parents (Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM...

Ok I find this to be a pretty weird problem. I have w7 RC 64bit installed successfully. My primary drive is first on the boot list of hdds and my current boot order is removable, cd-rom, hard drive and I have other boot methods disabled (had to because it was trying to do a network boot before)...

here are my specs; C2Duo 3.0Ghz Wolfdale, EVGA 750i SLI FTW, 4GB DDR2 Crucial Balistix, 1x 1TB WD Caviar Black FALS HDD, 2x 500GB Seagate SATA2 HDD, 1x LG DVD SATA Drive, Corsair HX1000 PSU, 2x EVGA GTX275 in SLI., Case HAF932. Keyboard (G15) and mouse (G9) are USB from Logitech I installed...

Hello guys, Im writing here because this is my last hope , i really pray that you can help me!! Something like 2 months ago i started having problems with Vista...my PC is brand new and haven't had any problem , but then all of a sudden things started going wrong: My operating system ( Vista...

I am using a old motherboard which doesnt have a native SATA driver on the chipset (I think). When I installed WinXP on this computer I had to either use the press F2 (or was it F7) or something when installation, and have the driver on a floppy driver. Thats why I have a old 20 GB PATA disk...

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...

Every time I boot up my PC it tells me invalid system disk, please insert system disk and try again. I always have to use the windows 7 DVD to repair my OS. Does any one know the cause of this?

First off: I have ONE hard drive to work with here (not counting the fact that I'm on another computer to type this up) I can partition/format that hard drive ANY way required. The hard drive is currently partitioned as such: 40~GB NTFS (partition 1, empty), 7GB NTFS (.isos contained here)...

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...

Yesterday I finally managed to upgrade from XP to Vista Ultimate after a few problems I encountered along the way. Today I decided to uninstall some programs that I no longer needed. So I first started uninstalling Corel Paint Shop Pro X. Halfway through the uninstallation process I got the BSOD...