OK here is the problem. I upgraded from XP which worked great as a clean install. The olny problem I have is my computer won't boot up from the hard drive only if I leave the upgrade CD in the drive will it boot.
I reloaded it once same thing. I called another tech guy and he said he had never heard of this happening. I need help as i don't want to keep the disk in everytime I restart.
Thanks to anyone that can help.
Fred
Yes i have check that many times. I don't get it's like the boot files are not loaded on 7
XP 64 worked just fine
Thanks
sderf
OK here is the problem. I upgraded from XP which worked great as a clean install. The olny problem I have is my computer won't boot up from the hard drive only if I leave the upgrade CD in the drive will it boot.
Evening star: No error message. When i reboot the computer the message on the screen is press here to boot from a CD. If I have the upgrade CD in there I do nothing and the computer starts up. If I take the CD out it ask the same question and that the end of it. It will not boot from the hard drive.
everything works fine except the only way I can get the computer to boot is to leave he Win 7 CD in the drive. Weird ain't it
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I am up and running. Word of advice for all up graders from XP. Before you start disconnect every hard drive , internal and external. When I up graded with a clean install it move the win7 OS to drive D:\. The reason for that is beyond me. Second it wiped clean one of my other drives besides the D:\ which in my case was F:\ WHY I have no idea.
Anyway, after all of that it works great so far (after 4 re installs, loading XP64 back on 2 times)
Thank you all for trying to help, I appreciate it.
sderf
Be careful .. they called me stoopid for giving this same advice a while back. ... EVEN though I explained why.
Why? Microsoft took so many controls out of the setup procedure -- and there weren't many to begin with -- that data loss was bound to occur during an upgrade to a multi-drive system. The only way to avoid it is to remove the non-essential drives.
That's the thing that pisses me off most about Windows 7: They've taken many, many controls out of Windows that we'd gotten used to, and the default configurations that they've left us with cause big problems when they don't fit a particular configuration.
If I disliked Windows that much ... I wouldn't use it. Have you found anything good about Windows 7?
Thanks, 'tblount'. I been on the verge of wanting say some along such lines for a while. Makes little sense to me, also.
Does not come across as 'constructive criticism'; more like condemnation, contempt... the type of feeling where one sure would not use it or sell it cus they didn't respect it or believe in it.
It's not my job to promote Windows 7 or any Microsoft product. As a consumer and an advocate for my clients, my job is to demand better and to push Microsoft -- or any large organization -- as hard as I can toward doing better..
I just wish you could understand how hard we all work here to help people resolve problems and be more considerate than to just splash negative comments over every thread you create and visit.
Haven't you noticed that this isn't a forum for \"pushing\" Microsoft? Or a forum for posting nonconstructive comments and criticism? We are trying to fix problems. You just stand out as someone with nothing to contribute. If you want to change Microsoft you are wasting your time here... Microsoft has forums where your voice could be heard. This one has no connection with Microsoft.
Here is the way we see it... rather than the glass being half or 3/4 empty, we see it as 90% full. We (although I can really only speak for myself) understand it's really an impossible task to develop any operating system that can work with literally thousands of combinations of hardware, while making it secure and user friendly. And if that's not enough of a challenge it's got to be able to take advantage of multi-thread / multi-core processing that on the leading edge of technology ...while at the same time run on computers over 15 years old with barely any memory. We respect them for that.
I would urge you and encourage you, in every way, to learn to program and write software to fix the thing you aren't happy with because the people who are coming here for help are not going to fix anything you don't like.