Can't Connect All Drives On Boot
Dec 3, 2011I've got Win7 home premium x64. When I boot it says near the clock can't reconnect or can't connect to all network drives. I don't have any nor have I ever.
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What Cable To Connect To Hard Drives
Apr 25, 2011I have a Gigabyte 870-UD3 motherboard and I also have two hard drives, One is a TB and the other is 500GBs, The TB one is the primary one at the minute and I was wondering does it matter what way my hard drives are connected to the motherboard? Will one slot make it slower or faster?
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Aug 28, 2010Here's my situation: I use 32-bit Windows 7, however, once per month I need to use 64-bit Windows 7. So I would like to install 64-bit Windows 7 to another drive. However, I don't want to see the dual boot menu on every restart. I only want to temporarily switch to 64-bit by pressing F8 (or whatever) to change booting device at bootup.
What's the proper way to do this?
Many years ago I used to have a situation where I had WinXP on one drive and WinXP on other drive. I could switch my C: (with WinXP) at bootup. It worked, except there was a problem: In some situations C:Windows and D:Windows or Programs Files were getting mixed up, automatically Start Menu pointed suddenly to D:Program Filessomething without asking me. I had used a clone software to clone the drive so that might be the reason why they mixed up together. Eventually removing the other drive might've crippled the system even my intention was to have two separate operating systems, just in one computer.
Basically I would like to have two C: drives with Windows 7-32bit and Windows 7-64bit. So in case one drive breaks, I'll have a very quick backup system ready.
Is it a stupid idea to disconnect the current C: drive and then install the new Windows to C: and then put the first drive in as well? Then I wouldn't have the dual boot menu, which might be what I want.
Is it possible to hide the dual boot menu, have it load 32-bit as default but still have a possibility to bring up the dual boot menu by pressing some key at bootup? In that case, is it possible to remove either drive and still boot up without problems?
Dual Boot On Two Drives
Jul 14, 2009hp providian has two 512meg hdd's I have vista 32bit installed on one hdd
Would like to install windows 7 64 bit on the other hdd as a dual boot.
Never done dual boot before. there are some programs on the second hdd it
only has one partition. Can I just install it on that drive as is and still have the
programs remain,or do I have to split the drive into 2 partitions?
Boot From Drives And Format
Aug 20, 2009i want to boot windows7 from my harddisk which i am using .
i mean to say that not from external hard disk drive.
i will try to explain again, actually i have a pc on which i am working at this time (internal or primary harddisk drive of it ). i want to reboot my system and when its bootsup then it should be stating setup of Windows 7 from one of my harddisk drive. for example from d: drive (D:/Windows 7)
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May 13, 2011I have a 30GB SSD that is my default drive, with windows 7 on it. It's just too small and I need to switch to a larger one. I also have a 2TB HD with most of my games and other various programs on it. My question is, Can I just buy another SSD, install windows 7, and stick it in like nothing happened? Will I come across any errors because my 2TB is used to the old C: drive? OR, can I just do a full backup of the 30GB SSD and stick it on another drive and pretend nothing happened?
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Jul 31, 2010I've already done with Dual Boot Windows XP and Windows 7. Initially i created 75GB of Raw partition when XP was installed.
1. When I goto XP my OS folder location is C:Windows and Windows 7 folder location I:Windows
2. When I go to Windows 7 my OS drive is C:Windows and Windows XP drive is D:Windows....
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Boot.ini Issue With Win7 - XP On Two Drives
Jun 12, 2009My Abit IP35 Pro motherboard's BIOS allows me to select which hard drive is the primary upon boot. If I have three separate OS on each drive, I can select which one I wish to run from bios.
Up till now I have installed a new OS on a separate drive by disconnecting the other connected drives and all has gone fine. When I installed Win 7 on a blank drive, I forgot to disconnect the other two. One drive has XP the other Ubuntu Linux.
During the Win 7 setup I selected the new blank drive and installed WIN 7 on it. All went well but when I rebooted, I had a dual boot: Win 7 made a dual boot with the XP but not the Linux. I didn't want Windows to offer me the dual boot, I wanted to select that in the bios.
So after all is said & done, booting into Linux via the bios switching start up drives goes fine & as before.
Booting into the XP drive via the bios I now get the dual boot option and selecting XP or Win 7 works fine. Booting into the Windows 7 drive, NTLDR is missing and it will not boot yet this is the drive containing the Windows 7 operating drive.
Don't Want To Have Two Boot Drives Of Windows 7 On The Same Computer?
Jun 24, 2012Need to do Win 7 install on 50 gb partition and keep my 200+ win 7 install intact but don't want to use it as a boot and dont want to delete it just to get rid of Windows and boot. I want to use it just as a data drive. Dont want to have to activate the new small drive.
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Oct 10, 2012My hard drive crashed. Bought a new one. Cloned another hard drive onto it. Old computer won't recognize the cloned drive but does in BIOS. I think the CPU was destroyed while cleaning the dust because it has prongs that clamped down and I couldn't see exactly where the gold pins were going to set in. Was very careful, but either the CPU is bad or the mother board is bad. Tested all other components in the working computer. Battery is fine. New cloned hard drive is fine. So I installed the cloned drive as a second OS drive in the working computer.I now have to share the computer with my husband until I get a new CPU or MB for my better, more expensive computer.Is it possible for him to log into "his" computer using "his" 1TB Sata HD, and then for me to come along and log into the cloned drive in his computer (2TB Sata HD) and do all of my work from that drive, so that when my own computer gets fixed, I'll have all the files I've worked on and programs installed that only I need on it and ready for use in my own computer, taking it out of my husband's computer after mine is fixed?
I'm sure I can go into BIOS and change the boot order whenever either one of us sits down to use the computer, but he's not going to want to do that each time, being pretty much computer illiterate as he is. Is there some other way to do a user switch easily during any time of the day when we need to share his computer?.
Cannot Change Boot Priority Among Hard Drives?
Aug 12, 2011Originally I had a small solid-state hard drive on this set up. I added a non-solid-state hard drive later. Recently, my solid-state drive, the C Dr., became too full to upgrade certain software programs such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I purchased a second solid-state hard drive.I "mirrored" that second solid-state hard drive. To make sure that Windows was operating appropriately, I rebooted and hit F10. I then showed the new solid-state hard drive. Everything booted perfectly and the new solid-state hard drive was noted as the C Dr.When I rebooted into bios to change the hard drive boot order so that the new second solid-state hard drive would be the first in the priority, when I highlighted it and exited from it,it still showed the original solid-state hard drive as the first hard drive.I have never had this problem before. I now have to go into F10 every time I boot into my computer and highlight the new solid-state hard drive.
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Nov 4, 2009I have Windows 7 64-bit and Windows XP installed on 2 different disks. Unfortunately, when i installed one, the other hard drive was not connected.
Hence, the default dual boot option would not come along.
Now, I have to choose to boot from either of the HDD from the BIOS setup.
Is there a way i could attach my XP bootloader to Windows 7 boot loader?
I remember seeing somewhere that Windows 7 boot loader has a notion of supporting XP boot as well.
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