is there a way to have windows put the boot loader on a drive of your choosing? I have 2 HDDs in my computer and from what I can tell windows put its boot loader on my other drive. is there a way (other then disconnecting the other one) to get windows to put the boot loader on the other drive like change priority in the BIOs?
View 2 RepliesI had windows 7 originally Installed on my Laptop. I then Installed Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop version, and it installed the grub boot loader
(All on 1 single HD, each OS is on its own partition.)
This boot loader was used to dual boot between windows and Linux. However now the grub boot loader is broken, and I was talking to some people how knew about Ubuntu, and they said to just delete its partition, which I did.
Now when I boot from my HD I just get a broken grub boot loader, and can’t get even get into my Win 7. Now I just want to get ride of this Grub boot loader, and get Windows 7 MBR back. I have booted from my windows 7 recovery disc, and have done:
Startup Repair – It found no problems, but HD still only boots to broken grub boot loader
System Restore – I restored to before I was having this problem, but HD still only boots to broken grub boot loader
I am trying to figure out what commands to enter in the command prompt to repair the MBR, or maybe just view what partitions are in my computer, and then completely delete the one with Grub on it.
If I type bcdedit I get this:
Windows Boot Manager
Identifier:{bootmgr}
Device:partition = C:
Description:Windows Boot Manager
Inherit:{globalsettings}
Default:{default}
Displayorder:{default}
Windows Boot Loader
Identifier:{default}
Device:partition = D:
Path:Windowssystem32winload.exe
Description:Windows 7
Inherit:{bootsequencesettings]
Recoveryenabled: yes
Osdevice:partition = D:
Systemroot: windows
Nx:OptIn
According to this everything looks fine, The C partition is that 100MB system reserved boot partition that windows 7 creates, and the D partition is a 100GB partition that I created on the HardDrive that windows 7 was installed to. I don’t understand why the windows boot loader will not boot, somehow the grub boot loader is still over riding it, even though I deleted the partition that ubuntu was installed on, and where the grub should have been installed as well.
From the command prompt, if I use diskpart, there are only 2 partitions, a 100MB one, and a 100GB one. Those are C and D respectively, so I am not sure how the grub is still loading unless it installed itself to a NTFS partition if that is even possible.
Does anyone know what commands I can try to repair or recreate the MBR so that windows 7 will load, or maybe commands to delete this Grub boot loader?
what is a boot loader?
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Now only the second Windows is loaded each time I turn on the computer and boot loader screen where you can choose the OS does not show up.What went wrong and is there any possibility to restore it?
I've routinely dual booted Linux and Windows over the years, but yesterday I hit a bit of a snag. I had Windows 7 and Vista both installed on a single hard disk. Since it had been awhile since I had booted Vista I decided to delete the partition and install Linux there. What I did not realize is that when I installed 7 it left the BCD on the Vista partition. So, when I installed Linux I effectively blew away my Windows boot loader.I've tried a hundred things at this point without much luck, including the "nuclear holocaust" / manual rebuild of BCD from:Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies WikiA few questions / thoughts from my google searches:* Is there anything needed in /boot other than the BCD?
* I am wondering if the "active" / "boot" partition flag is causing me trouble. hen I was trying to rebuild the BCD manually using bcdedit i was getting errors that the partition was not flagged active. I tried to use diskpart to flag it active but it said that the partition type was not valid for the active flag? I was able to set it active using the Linux gparted partition manager, but I can't understand why diskpart would not flag it.* Is it possible to have your oot on a different partition then Windows? The recovery console is mapping C: to my "applications" drive and D: to my "system" drive which contains Windows. I was wondering if I need to put oot on C: instead of D:
I have an HP pavilion dv4-1555dx laptop that I was trying to install Linux mint 10 gnome on a PNY 8GB flash drive, I forgot to have Linux install grub to the flash drive, so it ended up installing grub to the HDD, now I need to reinstall the windows 7 boot loader but HP didn't send a windows 7 boot disk with the system (OEM windows 7) so I can't jut boot the cd and use the recovery counsel unless there is somewhere online that I can get an iso from, or is there another way?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to install Windows 7 (to a different hard drive/partition) by mounting the iso, but then not have it install a boot loader? Obviously you'd have to be using a pre-existing OS to be mounting the iso file, but I can't seem to think of a way for it to not install a boot loader.
I know it's possible to install and then afterwards remove all the boot loader stuff, but it's just a hassle to boot into the DVDs and do all the rebuildbcd or fixmbr stuff.
Also I am aware I could just burn the iso to DVD and install it from that in order to not get a bootloader, but I'd like to know if it's at all possible via mounting the iso.
I have a laptop which until yesterday was dual boot (Windows 7 and SLES11). However I decided I would rather just use Windows with VMWare for any Linux needs. To do this I deleted the Linux partitions (OS, workspace, swap) from within Windows and used this extra space to add to my workspace partition on Windows and create a new partition for my VM's to sit.I got all this working very nicely and was happy with it until I rebooted to machine to see GRUB was still set to be the boot loader which is unable to do anything with no Linux partitions.What I do have is the Windows 7 Reinstallation DVD that came with the laptop however the DVD drive of my laptop is broken. I am currently writing this with a MacBook Pro (Mountain Lion) and so the only solution I can think of is using media oN DVD, and burning this to a bootable USB using the Mac and then setting up BIOS on the 'broken' laptop to boot from DVD. However I am not sure how to create a 'bootable' USB.
1) Can I use my Windows 7 reinstallation disc to recover Windows boot manager
2) If so can I do this via USB?
3) How could I make my USB 'bootable' using my Macbook Pro
4) What are the steps for recovering boot manager from the installation media
5) What is the more elegant way to 'delete' Linux partitions and ensure Windows Boot Manager works (I may also run into this problem with a workstation I set up in same way yesterday but have yet to reboot0
My laptop apparently is having a hard time booting. I start it up, it will display the blinking cursor and stay like that forever, i hard shut it down and the BIOS will search for new hardware (as its suppose to) and then the blinking cursor will appear for around a minute before booting up! this is really annoying and ive already Reset the BIOS to default and Reinstalled windows (deleted all Partitions and made one)
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a Windows 7 Pro x64 which has been running for a many months without any issues.Three days ago I restarted the machine and Windows 7 didn't start anymore. I have spent a lot of time investigating it and could not find anything wrong with the boot loader or the file system where the OS is.So the boot loader works, I have also replaced it just in case but nothing changed. I can go into the boot loader menu and chose the Windows 7 entry but then the black screen which says "Starting Windows" comes and nothing else happens.Note that the computer doesn't hang, it simply gets stuck at some point and doesn't do anything else. The HDD LED stays on from this point forward and that is it, if I press ctrl+alt+del it restarts and if it were completely frozen it wouldn't.
This Windows 7 runs on a pair of drives in RADI1 so it cannot be a problem with the drives. I have run checks just to be sure and couldn't find anything, no file system issues or bad blocks.The raid controller is not reporting any issues with the drives.I have booted with the windows install cd and tried to repair it many times but the auto repair says it could not repair it, other times it tells me that no issue was found.The boot manager is working fine, I have replaced it just in case using bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot and also bootsect /nt60 all.I have checked for corrupt files with sfc and no files were corrupt, at least no critical system files.I have manually replaced the winload.exe file but this didn't help either.The problem seems to be at the stage where the boot manager passes control to winload.exe.
I have windows 7 installed on laptop, i had to install XP on a partition in order to do something i cant in w7, now xp starts..I used to know of a program that could be run from within windows that would let you add OS's to the boot menu and choose a default but i cant remember its name, it was dead simple to use other stuff I see is more complicated, i just want to use that simple little program.
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But when the boot manager comes up it won't let me choose the OS to use.
It will only allow me to select the default OS even though both appear on the boot menu screen. The cursor won't move away from the default OS (Which was 7 after I'd installed it).
I changed, ( in the windows 7 system settings) the default OS to XP. And then rebooted and it went into XP so that we can continue with the machine functioning as it was.
But I can't make it boot into Windows 7 and I can't now make 7 the default when I want to, since that option doesn't appear in the XP boot options list.
In effect I can't boot into 7 at all, now.
And even if I could, it wouldn't be much use unless we can choose the OS we need at boot time.
I made sure that the time to choose was sufficiently long. So it's not that causing the problem.
So, how do I make the Boot menu work as it should?
I am currently using windows 7 ultimate x64. I was in the middle of a process restoring my computer to a few days back and suddenly it froze. I did a power shut down and when I turned it back on, I wasn't able to get back into windows. I was brought to startup repair and it gave me errors. 'Boot manager failed to find OS loader'. There was options for restoring, but all my restore points were gone. Recovery wasn't able to find image backup.
"Startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically". I was told to go into safe mode to restore, but whenever I enter safe mode, startup repair would take over and shows the same errors, also I read a tutorial using a repair disc ( made a copy of it on someone elses ultimate x64 computer) and I get the 0x00000e9 error if i boot from disc. What can I do? As of now I don't have the installation disc with me. I wont be able to get hold of it until tomorrow. There's a lot of important files in that hard drive and I really cant lose any.
I recently somehow got a nasty virus into my lappy. It was extremely weird since I just bought a new anti-virus (Norton, to be exact) and my PC became super slow. I recognized signs of viruses and I decided to wipe the PC clean. My friend gave two Windows 7 DVDs. However, even after making DVD the first boot order at BIOS it just doesn't work. My DVD rom makes really nasty sounds and it waits on a black screen for a bit and then it shows me to choose safe mode or start normally.
Basically, my PC has always read DVDs (logo on it confirms it). Also, Rom itself isn't broken, other discs like the Norton one work fine. Since the DVDs my friend gave me were DVD R- and DVD RW. Later, I got yet another disc which was DVD R+ but it STILL didn't work. My PC doesn't recognize the DVDs even normally, through My Computer. Did the viruses ruin my drivers or something? My rom always read DVDs but why make weird noises now?
On my home built system, when booting up, if I don't have this generic Dell usb keyboard hooked up, I can not choose from multiple drives I have installed with the Logitech G510 keyboard( which I use to choose, I just have to have this other keyboard connected). Other than that, it behaves normally, fine.Is there something I can do in the way of getting a driver onto a usb thumb drive and then keep that thumb drive permanently attached (like inside the case)?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI had 2 windows 7 operating systems installed on my PC.One of them was getting slow so I decided install a new one over it.I installed the new OS over the old one's partition.Everything was completed perfectly.After some time, I decided to switch back to my other(old)OS.But instead of loading windows,it straightaway went to startup repair!One of my other partitions is protected with bitlocker.The startup repair asked for that long recovery key!I entered it and it continued to repair the OS.I checked the log file and it describes the problem as "Bootmanager failed to find OS loader" and the follwing repair was done: "Boot configuration data repair".I clicked th finish button and the rebooted the OS.But the same process occurs again and again.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have done some looking around and have found lots of mentions of the same issue but people tend to skip through some of the in between key steps as they are working on their own computers and not trying to do this blind.
I had no idea at first what she'd done but apparently this is a common problem. Basically, if a netbook's battery goes dead while it is hibernating then it creates a problem when the user reboots. The machine gets to the windows resume loader page and then freezes there. It offers you a choice but the keyboard is unresponsive. I got her to force quit and restart but same thing.
I found that many were able to use a PS2 keyboard to work around this but my mom does not have one. She doesn't have a start up disc or anything like that.
I found this solution elsewhere but as you see, the guy skips the key steps: Hopefully your computer gives you the opportunity to visit you bios settings/ peripherals. You can usually access this at the very beginning of startup by following the prompts such as "F1, F9, DEL, TAB, "....etc. I am pretty sure that each Motherboard has a different setup. Once I found My way to the peripherals I was able to scroll down to "USB keyboard" and saw that it was disabled. I enabled it, saved those settings and continued on to the "RESUME LOADER" page that had not been responsive before and Ta-Da!!!! it worked.
So, I need the easiest, most explainable steps to follow so I can walk my mom through them. It is the f8 key you press upon startup to get to get to safemode? Or does this guy mean to actually press F1 then F9 and so on?
manually enable the keyboard on her netbook and get past this.
Can I do this? Isn't the W7 loader on the XP partition?,XP is on partition 1, and W7 is on partition 2.
View 11 Replies View RelatedBut after like 30 seconds after logon, it completely freezes.I've already tried setting power mode to "high performance"I think its a broken driver called "Security Processor loader driver" , cause in device manager it shows the yellow thingy next to it. But the problem is you cant update it by right clicking.
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