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MBR: Restore Windows 7 bootloader on a Thinkpad
I previously uninstalled Fedora dual boot and now have the GNU Grub bootloader still hanging around. I have found instructions online on how to remove this but they all require the Windows 7 CD. I do ...
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How do I revert changes made by BootRec.exe?
I have a 32GB flash drive that I've loaded up with a bunch of different bootable operating systems, tools, etc. I used YUMI to put everything on there.
Today, I was attempting a repair on a Windows ...
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How To Get Windows To Stop Assuming Precedence Over GRUB?
I have a SATA hard drive with an MS DOS MBR partition table, an ext4 Linux-based OS, an NTFS Windows 7, and an extended partition. I was happily using my ext4 partition for quite some time, but grew ...
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Is there any way to boot my computer after my bootloader (GRUB) was corrupted?
There were 3 operating systems (Windows 7 , Fedora 13 and Mageia 2) were installed on my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop. I deleted the partition of Mageia and my GRUB got corrupted. I didn’t have an ...
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Checking NVRAM on BootUp
I've recently encountered with my desktop the other day. the problems were like this
Computer boots up. and Shows this Message
F1 for Setup and Configuration
F2 to load default values
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How to display the boot screen notebook on a monitor?
The monitor of my notebook is broken and I want to install Arch-Linux on it. I have no problem to display the windows screen on an external monitor, but it doesn't show the initial screen where we ...
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Boot manager missing error in Windows 7 [duplicate]
I have a Sony Vaio sve14118fxw laptop. Every time I start the laptop first the Sony Vaio logo appears and then the screen goes black and an error message appears after that saying "BOOTMGR missing".
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Rewriting the MBR to start using the Windows 7 Partitions I have imaged on my external “My Book” USB HD
I'm trying to use bootsect to create a bootable USB HD. I keep getting the error Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access Denied.
To give you some background on ...
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How to repair Windows 7 boot loader on UEFI system? [duplicate]
On a Windows 7 Home Premium PC, I tried creating a Windows 8 VHD and booting to it. I created a VHD as my E: drive, installed Win8 into it with imagex, and then ran bcdboot E:\Windows. I've done ...
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How to restore Windows 7 from backup/recovery DVD
I have a laptop, and I can not start any operating system.
I have 4 backup DVDs with Windows 7 Home, which was the preinstalled OS. I formatted the disk and installed Ubuntu 12.10 and I later ...
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Windows boot manager error
This error occurs every time I attempt to turn on the computer. Is there any was of fixing this without restoring windows and losing data?
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the windows boot configuration data file does not contain a valid os entry
Here's what happened, i always dualboot my laptop, windows and linux, i was fixing the grub menu, using easybcd as i always do. but i clicked install bcd by mistake on the first partition where ...
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Can GRUB2 be installed to USB and used to select between 2 HDDs with Windows 7?
I have recently acquired a second SSD, and decided I would utilize a multi-boot setup to increase my productivity. One drive is for "work" (only contains Windows 7 and software needed for work) and on ...
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How can I move the boot sector to another drive?
When I installed Windows 7 on my new SSD it seems I messed some parts up during the partition selection, and now I have my system partition with the boot sector on another harddrive, and the boot ...
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Windows flags secondary SATA drive bootable - can only boot once with the drive in place
On my GPT/EFI-based new Windows 7 PC, I was trying to install my old PC's MBR-based drive as a secondary SATA1 disk. I've got Windows 7 and Linux Mint dual-booting on the new SATA0, but I still want ...
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Converting windows (bootloader) from mbr to gpt/uefi
I have windows 7 installed on a laptop on a small 160 Gb hard drive that has the MBR partition table. Now I would like to move it to a bigger disk, format it with GPT and multi-boot linux (Fedora).
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GRUB, Windows 7 and Hibernation
I'm dual booting gnu/linux and win7 using Grub. The Grub bootloader is not on the first partition on the disk (I only have one disk). The first partition is win7, and still has the windows bootloader.
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Triple Boot Windows
The toshiba laptop has Win 7 Home Edition. I resized the partition (shrink). I made two other partitions to install two Win XP SP3. Trying to have 1x Win7, 2x WinXP, when resized the partition, i made ...
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Access Existing Linux Installation from Windows Bootloader - Linux Installed and Then Windows 7
My hard drive is failing. I installed a new drive, and the installed Ubuntu 12.04 to try to rescue data. Realized that I wanted to install Windows and just access drives without transferring data ...
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How do I set Windows 7 as default OS but retain Windows 8 Boot screen?
I am dual-booting between Windows 7 and Windows 8 on a test workstation, and typically reboot 3-4 times per day.
If I set Windows 8 as the default OS, I get the Windows 8 graphical boot screen, which ...
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Restore Windows 7 bootloader after Windows 8 install
I have installed Windows 8 onto a partition after Windows 7, and when I turn my PC on, Windows 8 basically loads completely, and then I get the option to choose my OS. If I select Windows 8, I go ...
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How to restore windows 8 GUI boot-loader after installing windows 7?
I have installed window 7 after installing windows 8,
so windows 7 boot-loader is now the default boot-loader
But i want to restore windows 8 graphical boot-loader back again
so what to do ?
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Windows Seven no boot sector
The story
A friend got a virus (rootkit) on their windows seven install and I offered to try and fix it (the virus was the google redirect tdss rootkit). After many attempts I finally got rid of it ...
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separate Windows 7 clone in separate disks cause conflict in bootloader when they attach to one PC?
i have 3 disks in 3 PC and restore one back up of Windows 7 to all of them.
then i return back to office and force to attach 3 hard disks to one of those PCs.
after that my teammate run bcdboot and ...
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Computer not booting past motherboard manufacturer logo
My PC doesn't go past the motherboard manufacturer logo.
I tried to reset the BIOS.
I have two RAM slots and 1GB RAM. I tried reinserting the RAM in other slots.
I think the red light shows that ...
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How to remove the Windows 7 XE Loader?
I do not know how I got this, but when I start my computer I get this loader instead of the default Boot Manager. I have no idea how to remove this, since the Windows installation that this loader ...
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install grub on pendrive containing linux installation, making it system independent
i have a win7 system and i want to install debian 6 on usb flash drive. the problem is grub loader. i want to install the grub loader on usb itself, so i can just plug in the pendrive in any computer ...
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Regenerating a winload.exe
If one is missing or has a corrupted winload.exe - and winload~1.exe, winloadOLD.exe, etc. do not work - what can you do to regenerate it? (Such as after a failed logon screen customization.)
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Selected wrong OS from bootloader settings and now can't do anything
I'm trying to help a friend out with an urgent issue he is having.
He has two Windows 7 installations when he was starting up his computer so the bootloader menu was making him select an OS every ...
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Deleted Recovery partition on Dell XPS 13. Now unable to boot into windows 7
Mine is Dell xps 13 ultrabook shipped with windows 7. I thought of installing ubuntu, so I unknowingly deleted recovery partition, formatted it and installed ubuntu. Now ubuntu is working fine. But in ...
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Windows 7 boot manager issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Reinstalling” the Windows 7 boot manager
I was having windows 7 installed on my laptop, yesterday I tried to install Open Suse operating system. During its ...
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Windows 7 Boot Loader does not show
I've recently installed a 32bit Windows7 in my computer. My old OS is Windows XP, and now I want to have the option to choose what OS I want to load, I've used the easyBCD to create the boot loader.
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Unknown filesystem Grub rescue error
I have a lenovo z570, and I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 7. Recently all my games that I've been playing stop responding due to a AppCrash.
I searched for the error on Google and they ...
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Adding Windows 7 boot entry in an EFI bootloader
Long story short, I use EasyBCD and accidentally delete the Windows 7 boot entry from the boot manager. My laptop is Asus N46VZ and it uses EFI. I want to restore the bootloader by adding the windows ...
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Slow Windows 7 bootup after grub dual boot
I have a 1.5TB SATA drive with a fresh (working) installation of Windows 7 Ultimate. I decided I'd like to dual boot with Ubuntu. I have a separate 500GB drive that I wanted to use. Previously, my ...
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How to remove the windows 7 bootloader from my OEM partition?
I have a laptop with an OEM partition containing the files for a recovery of Windows XP. In the past I've used this OEM partition by setting it active and let the computer boot it. It would ...
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How can I repair the Windows 8 EFI Bootloader?
I installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 in EFI mode on a hard disk some days ago. Today, the bootloader got missing/corrupted.
I currently have the Windows 8 installer on a flash drive and tried using ...
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Windows doesn't boot, Ubuntu does
I needed more space on my Ubuntu partition so I shrunk my Windows 7 partition by 25GB and then went into GParted on a live USB so I could extend my Ubuntu partition. At the same time I deleted the ...
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SSD missing boot record
I just bought an OCZ 120gb Agility 3 SSD for my Dell XPS 15 (L501X). I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Professional and had no issues for about a day or two.
After doing some Windows updates, ...
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Dual Boot - OS on Workstation with 6 TB (4 Independent HD's) [closed]
I have a great high end HP Workstation with 6-TB (4 Independent HD's) I would like to add the latest Linux os desktop and Ubuntu 12.04 - in addition to the 2 Windows 7 OSs I have, and if possible to ...
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Windows XP ruined my Windows 7 bootloader and rescue disc doesn't works, what do I do now?
I have 3 HDDs, one for Windows 7(x64), the other for Ubuntu(x64 too) and XP, and the 3rd for Ubuntu's SWAP and storage.
XPs bootloader copied itself on top of both 7s and GRUB. No biggie at first, I ...
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Restore the windows bootloader without the CD
I will be giving my desktop to my brother soon. He is a gamer, so he has no need for a dual-boot Linux install. I can easily remove the Linux partitions and re size the Windows partition, but this ...
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Can't boot into Windows 7 from GRUB
So a while ago I installed Ubuntu. I was hoping I would be able to use Windows boot loader to choose between Windows 7 and Ubuntu every time I booted, but no Linux had to install GRUB. After a while ...
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Is possible to load Windows 7 from the eSATA drive, even if it's not supported in BIOS?
I'm using a laptop which has eSATA connection. I would like to install Windows 7 on the external disk (to have it completely separated from the OS on the internal hdd). According to the manufacturer, ...
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Unetbootin and Windows 7
I use Unetbootin on WinXP and I have a Windows 7 iso that I want to make a USB bootable with. Everything works fine. I can boot the USB, but then I come to bootloader screen and I only see one option ...
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Writing an MBR from inside windows
I assumed that this would be simple, but it turns out not to be the case.
I wish to create an MBR/bootloader record that simply points to the installation of windows that is actually running at the ...
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Proper way of installing new SSD in a dual-boot machine
I've recently purchased a SSD where I plan to install Windows 7 from scratch. I't has a SATA 6Gbps interface.
The machine where it is going to be installed is a dual-boot PC with a single HDD ...
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Change windows 7 as the primary bootloader
Uh, I'll first tell you the history of OS Changes that have ever occurred to my computer :
First I installed Windows 7 on a partition (333 GB).
Next after Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released, I ...
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Restoring the Windows 7 boot loader after uninstalling Windows 8?
A while back I installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my PC.
As expected, I quickly grew bored of it, and uninstalled it. I removed the whole partition on which I had installed the OS, and ...
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Restore a bootloader with no accessible partitions?
I recently deleted my openSUSE partition, and before deletion was using the default SUSE bootloader whenever I wanted to access my other partitions, such as Win7. When SUSE went, so did the bootloader ...
