My pc switches on but doesn't boot. I normally just get a black screen with a flashing underscore in top left corner. I can get into the start up menu and then the boot menu and boot the pc that way. I have on the odd occasion received an error message, something about the keyboard, i cant remember exactly its been a while since i seen that message.
View 8 RepliesI have successfully formatted my second HD into 3 partitions: Windows 7 x86, Windows 7 64 bit, and XP. The startup menu works fine but the two Windows 7 lines are the same. I may not be using the correct term for startup menu, but it is the one that appears when dual booting. Anyway, I would like to find the file so I can change the two identical lines to different lines. That is, instead of both saying "windows 7" I can change them to "Windows 7 x86" and Windows 7 x64" or something like that. Anybody know where that file is?
View 5 Replies View Relatedafter installing Kaspersky pure in my computer, I got rid of the System fix virus but all the missing files or links,I did the uhhide from this forum and claimes back my desktop icons, but my startup menu still shows empty files,I cant seem my microsoft office and others
View 2 Replies View RelatedWish to clean up windows 7 and have too many programs starting up that may not be necessary.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have no idea ho i did this but all of my startup programs on start menu as well as desktop shotcuts they end in .ink? And all of it has the logo for VLc media player? so basically when i click it it loads on that program but it will not load it as it only does media files. And all the time I have to right click to say open file location then it finally loads the program. So my question is how do I put it all back to normal? I'll post a screenshot so you can better understand what I am talking about.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running an Advent desktop PC and its stats are as follows; Intel Core i5-2310 CPU @ 2.90GHz 8GB RAM Win 7 64 bit.The problem I am having is when ever i boot up the computer it shows the Advent logo-screen where I can access the boot menu etc but then it goes to a black screen with a cursor/underscore flashing in the top left... This screen stays for quite a while and I am not sure if it stops because of a key I have pressed or just because it has run its course but after it disappears the computer goes back to the logo-screen for a moment and proceeds to boot up as normal except slightly slower than usual.It is a relatively new computer and it has no problems running at all once the boot up is complete it is fast and as friendly as ever.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have XP (x86) installed on one partition.
Last night I installed Windows 7 (x64) on a separate partition.
Anytime I had tried this in the past, using Vista, it always detected the Windows XP partition, and gave me a boot menu with "Earlier Version of Windows" option to boot to.
This is not so with Windows 7.
How can I get the boot menu to show both options, to boot to XP or to Windows 7?
when booting up windows 7 why do I have to key in F1 for windows to start up
View 1 Replies View RelatedI got this new computer and at some point I went into the boot option to try and install my PC to it's factory settings but when I opened up the boot option it showed something like this but not exactly:
1. MC43689SGDAL7
2. MATSHITADVD-RAM
This is very random and unusual and I have found no fix and as you should know it should look something like this:
1. CD/DVD Drive
2. USB
3. Hard Drive
4. something else
Even in my Bios menu it shows the same thing and I cannot change it so I can't boot from a USB or CD, etc.
i did a terrible mistake. i installed windows 7 first on one drive and then i install windows xp on separate drive. and when i restart there was no boot menu to choose the OS from list only windows xp started straight away. i did not knew about EasyBCD . and i put my windows 7 DVD and run recovery. now i can goto windows 7 but xp is missing again. is there any way i will not install xp from beginning and windows 7 can add boot menu in startup to choose xp or 7.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI am doing an upgrade from XP to Windows 7. I have done this numerous times with no problems until today. I put in the disc for the upgrade and loaded the Boot Device Menu (F12). Then I selected Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive and I can hear the CD spinning but it does nothing. It wont load and the 'Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive' option stays highlighted. I just installed XP doing this exact same method because I installed a new harddrive and I had no problems. It only occurred once I put in the W7 disc.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedAn old hard drive I have has about 3 OS on it. Win 7, Xp, and maybe win 7 again
The hard drive is half full so I know the information is there. Anyway
How can I
1) View OS choice at boot menu
2) Get information off this hard drive that cna be accessed by going through the other OS
3) The get rid of the other OS
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit, on a Gateway, motherboard is EG43M. It is a dual-core Pentium, CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz.
I have a virus that calls for running Windows Defender Offline. I'm trying to boot my PC from a USB drive to run WDO, but it doesn't work. I've tried pressing F12 on startup to enter the Boot Menu to change it. How do I gain entry to the Boot Menu to change to boot from USB drive?
i have a toshiba laptop , which has vista and i then managed to dual boot it with windows7 it was working fine , but i then had to restore my vista to factory settings -
i think the bootloader is overwritten im not fully sure - the windows 7 partion is still there when i go on my computer
I have an eMachines E528 with an Intel Celeron 900 processor. I got the blue screen of death and was able to use the Windows system repair disk to reinstall windows 7. However, while trying to "update" Windows 7 with the SP1 update through the windows update tool, I got the blue screen of death again. This time I cannot boot the computer. I've tried a recovery disk, a system repair disk, a new clean copy of windows 7, and a Partition Wizard bootable CD. Everytime it gets to the point of loading ANY menu, it freezes up and does nothing for hours. I have spent so much time researching and trying things from other forums, and I have gotten nowhere. get a fresh copy of windows on this computer? or get me into the menu that allows me to restore from a system repair disk? I have even tried an "eRecovery" without even going into Windows by pressing ALT F10 at the logo screen as the computer is booting up, and I still get hung up while the application is trying to load the menu options.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have Windows 7 and XP installed on separate partitions of one drive. I also had a 2nd hard drive, for backing up data, which I think has died so I disconnected it. This machine used to automatically boot into Windows 7, but now it goes to XP. There was nothing installed onto the 2nd drive so I have no idea why disconnecting that would change anything. I've checked, and the Windows 7 files are still available on the working hard drive.Previously, if I wanted to boot into XP instead of 7, I would go into the BIOS and change the boot order of the 2 hard drives, and then it would automatically boot into the other OS.One other thing I remember, is that when I had the Windows 7 loaded up, it showed the Windows 7 partition as being the C drive. When I have XP turned on, it shows the Windows 7 partition as being D drive and XP as being in the C drive.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have done fresh install of win 7 on my D drive
it installed properly but theres no vista in boot menu
i have important links on my firefox in vista
is there anyway to boot vista .
i want to reformat my laptop(toshiba satellite c640) using dvd drive,but there is no CD/DVD drive in boot menu. the only choices are
1. HDD
2. USB
3. ODD
I had installed Mint Linus as a dual boot through ML to try. After carefully removing it per instructions, when I boot I get the Windows Boot Manager, which I never had and don't need as I only have Win 7. How do I get rid of it (extra boot time).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Windows 7 from a USB drive (16GB) instead of the disc. One of the issues I've encountered after was that in my Win7 boot up, I'm taken to the boot selection menu, which is usually reserved for multi-booting, or crash recovery.The options shown are...- Windows 7 Ultimate- Windows EMS Setupand towards the bottom of the screen some type of diagnostic option. I can't remember off the top of my head.Is there any way I can remove the setup option from this menu? I would like to boot straight into Windows without timing out, or having to select it manually.
View 2 Replies View Relatedis there a way to arrange my boot menu w/o me having to unplug drivers manually? It is set up to where my back-up 1 tb is the primary boot device, my dvd wr is secondary and my hdd is the 3rd device, so when I start my pc I have to load boot menu and manually select my hdd every time.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIve just installed Windows 7 beta onto an empty partition in my PC thats running Vista Home Premium x64. If I boot the PC i get no boot menu, it goes straight into Vista. If I put the Windows 7 installation dvd in my drive it goes straight into Windows 7. Both operating systems are working fine but how do I create a boot menu instead of using the installation dvd to start Windows 7?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHardware Information (This is from memory and may not be completely accurate):The computer model is emachines The processor is a dual core Intel Pentium The graphics card is NVIDIA (Can't remember the model.)4GB of RAM installed Software Information (Also from memory, but this is likely to be more accurate than the hardware.): Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Antivirus software is Comodo Internet Security - Also the firewall (product information).I often used Advanced System Care for optimization.-product information.after searching the internet for ways to fix my problem for the past three days, I'm at a complete loss. I was told by a professional that my registry was likely corrupted and that my best bet would be to re-install Windows entirely. I was hoping it wouldn't come to that, but was prepared nonetheless.So I inserted the installation disk, and wouldn't you know it, the installer wouldn't recognize my hard drive (BIOS recognizes it though). Searching for reasons why this was happening only turned up people saying to make sure it was recognized by BIOS, which I considered a no brainier. When it still didn't work for people in certain threads, they were told to try wiping their hard drives. I've done it. Windows still doesn't want to notice my hard drive.After that, I decided to try and install Windows to an external hard drive. I know this isn't how Windows was designed, and I knew it wasn't how Windows was meant to be used, but I was (to my knowledge) out of other options (Also, the external hard drive has 1 TB of space on it, so I wasn't concerned about speed loss). So, I searched for ways to do that, and I came across PWboot. The first half of the installation worked, the second half did not. I began getting an error that read (bootmgr is missing press ctrlalt+delete to reboot.) Which I did. But that didn't fix anything. So I tried the entire process again, and it didn't work.The "Repair your computer" feature in the windows install disk turned up nothing as well. I can't "Factory Reset" because it can't detect any installation of windows, the startup repair function can't "repair this computer automatically", and none of the other options will even open (with the exception of the command prompt, but most of the commands aren't valid for some reason.)
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy Husbands Toshiba Satellite P300 running windows 7 professional, will not boot past the black Toshiba screen F2 and F12 do not work it is frozen on the black Toshiba screen so I cannot change the boot menu to reformat.Is there another way to load the windows 7 or my repair disk? My granddaughter tripped over the cord and the computer had a small fall onto carpet but fired up and worked perfectly well, The third time I restarted it froze.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have been dual booting for about 6 months now with no problems.I installed XP first and then Windows7.When I boot the computer it goes to Windows7.It gives me the option on the screen to choose other operating system which I do.All of a sudden I can't get into XP,it just stays a black screen.So I booted back to 7 and checked the boot menu and only Windows7 is listed,don't know why,it was working fine till now.Is there anyplace on the computer where I can get my original boot menu back.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn the previous O/Ss, you were able to configure the boot menu options in dual boot scenario's by editing the 'boot.ini' this however, is not the case in Windows 7 and past 2000 O/s.
This is because i have an operating systen showing up in my menu that does not exist anymore and i dont want to wipe the O/S (Windows 7) to remove it as i have other O/S that are working fine.
I have Windows XP and Ubuntu Wubi on my PC, and Windows 7 on top of that. Windows Xp is installed on C: and 7 is on another drive. I have formatted the drive on which 7 was installed. But I still get the 7 boot menu at boot. Then after selecting "Earlier version of windows", I get the XP boot menu. I want to remove the 7 boot menu. I think the 7 MBR is installed on C:, so it is not removed.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMSI Wind 210 Netbook, 250 gig hd, vista (came with it) then upgraded to Windows 7 (2nd boot option)I deleted the dual boot menu using partition doctor (dumb mistake, dont ask) now all that shows up when I goto boot is,bootmgr is missing,press any key to restart,pressing a key.intel undii, pxe-2.1 (build 082)reboot and select proper boot device,thats it,It came with restore via the f3 key option on boot , but that shows nothing
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