Establish Boot Sector On New SSD
Dec 27, 2012
Running home premium on HP desktop.I installed an SSD and installed W7 on it. Unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to remove the old HDD first, and the W7 install kept the boot sector on the old HDD. Now of course when I remove the old HDD the system won't boot. I tried doing a repair with the W7 install disc. It does say it's repairing, but after many restarts there is still no boot sector on the SSD.So now I re-installed the old drive, but I eventually want to remove it. One additional thing that might help the diagnosis: On bootup I am presented with two W7 boot options. If I select the second W7 it comes back with "Windows failed to start" and then goes on to instruct me to reboot with the W7 disk and select "repair". But as I stated, I already tried that and it didn't work.I spent many hours setting up my W7 environment on the new drive, and I'd really like to fix this problem without doing a fresh re-install of W7.
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Dec 18, 2011
I'm trying to educate myself on cloning i.e. bootable sector-by-sector replication, not just creating an image file of the used disk space. So far, I've bought a high performance HDD of the wrong size, trying to make sure that I replace it with an HDD with which my first cloning attempt will go without a hitch.
My laptop contains a 640GB Toshiba MK6465GSX HDD (Toshiba SDD - Product Detail). I am considering getting 640GB WD Scorpio Blue HDD for the cloning.
One of the constraints I want to observe is that I should be able to pick it up in person from one of the retailers in my city. However, they invariably carry the WD6400BPVT variant, which uses 4KB sectors ("Advance Format"). Nothing comes up in a search for "MKxx65GSX MKxx76GSX advanced-format" (without quotes), so I assume it has 512 byte sectors.
Is there a problem with cloning from a 512 bytes/sector HDD to an 4KB/sector HDD?
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Jun 22, 2009
I have installed Windows 7 from my hard drive (E:). Now I have a small problem, the boot sector (or something like that) is located in E:, I want to move it to C:. Moreover there is two options in the bootscreen: Windows 7 and install Windows 7 RC. How I will remove the secon option?
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Nov 24, 2012
Have an issue with unmountable boot in windows 7. Do not have a repair disk or original disks since son purchase it from a friendI used an XP disk to get in cmd and did a chkdsk /r fixing bad sectors. Can i use the fixboot or bootrec.exe commands to fix the windows 7 boot issue?
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Oct 9, 2012
I was working on my computer when windows locked up and I was forced into a hard shut down, when I restarted the computer one of my hard drives showed up as invalid and my computer would not recognize it. When I tried to repair the sector to make it valid the it seemed to work, now my computer will not boot into windows at all. I have an SSD HDD set up and I need this computer as it is my main audio work station.
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Mar 3, 2012
Have a netbook with Windows 7 Starter. It dualboots with Linux. My plan is to remove the Linux partition to make space on the hard disk. Obviously then the boot information, which is a GRUB, should be corrected. How can you edit this ahead of time, to allow a boot with a single entry? A netbook has no disk drive, so there is no repair disk available.
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Nov 28, 2011
Yesterday, I was browsing on my computer and heard a weird clicking noise when the CD drive was running. About a few minutes after that, Firefox froze so I did a hard reboot, and up comes this message:
"No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics."
I have no idea what it means, and I've been everywhere trying to do System Restore using the Windows 7 reinstallation disk, but unfortunately I couldn't create a restore point because my jump drive doesn't have enough space and Startup Repair couldn't solve my problem. I've even tried the bootrec.exe on Command Prompt but I had no idea what to do. This is the first time that this has happened to me. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 and I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
I'm on a tight limb about this problem right now because my warranty expired in early June this year, and I don't have the money for them to look at it, let alone buy a brand-new hard drive.
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Jan 15, 2013
My wife shout down her computer this morning took it on remote location for work today but never booted it up. When she got back home tonight it wouldn't boot up. I don't know what to call these screen but some Startup Repair screen. Just says Repair action: Boot sector repair, Result: Failed.I downloaded and burned to CD the boot CD for the MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition but I don't know what disk I am even looking for. I see 3 partitions listed for one disk.The only one with a label is BDEDrive and it's 300 MB. The other two have *: as what I would call a label. One is 297.79 GB and the other is 12.34 MB. The BDEDrive is the only with with status of Active. NTFS on that partition and Other on the big partition.
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Oct 7, 2011
I have a Dell Inspiron that is running Win7 Home premium 64 bit and I am getting an error message while booting up it states "No boot sector on internal hard drive. No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot". When I strike F1 it boots just fine.
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Jun 3, 2011
It's a dell latitude, 1 year old. Laptop suddenly crashed and when the laptop booted it said: "no boot sector on internal hard drive". I tried repairing the boot sector with the windows repair function, but the hard drive is just empty... nothing to repair. Then I tried to boot off a ubuntu live cd. which worked. and showed me an empty hard drive with the_maximum_capacity_of_the_drive_GB of unallocated space.
Since that I reinstalled windows 7 two times, and stopped working after an hour or so. I installed ubuntu, which worked for several days. then i tried windows 7 again (clean install). And then I kept working on the laptop for a couple of hours until the "crash" happened. All the programs stopped working suddenly. When I opened anything I was shown this error: "Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion."
After that everything is lost if I turn the computer off. And I'm back at an empty unformatted hard drive. I changed the sata operation mode in the bios to different options before every installation of windows. I didn't try xp, because I don't have dell-xp cd's . Is the hard drive broken? I guess not because ubuntu works. and windows 7 also, but it just goes away suddenly... Here's a video (shot in portraitmode) of the event... [URL].
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May 29, 2011
I have a 500 gb weston digital portable hdd. I use a casing to use it in my pc. I recently checked that there are many bad sectors in my hdd. Is it possible to remove that bad sectors by self. Or as it's in warranty, send it to the company and they'll take care of.
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Oct 4, 2012
HDD: ST30005 28AS. Failing. I have to recover some data and throw it away. With Seatools dos cd, I accidentally the first sector. I also set it at that time at 33 gb. Now I can't see any partitions in it. I tried everything in HIREN's boot cd. The drive was failing, 15 minutes at windows loading, SMART messages to backup it, etc. I low level formatted it when it was 33 GB. My data is a few GB beyond anyway. However I played with it I can't read anything from it. Help.OK, so the drive is my third, a storage drive. I disconnected the other drives, inserted the Windows 7 recovery disk, but it didn't do anything. I couldn't find the ol' cmd menu I knew from other times. (Info or help -> a series of commands, including fixmbr.) It found the drive, but couldn't say anything about it. So no access, no identity, no status of it, nothing. Windows keeps telling me to replace the drive, but sees no volume informations. How the hell can a drive become invisible at any kind of content mode? I just used the menu from seatools and it vanished. How can it offer a delete for first sector but no fresh write of it?
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Jan 4, 2012
how it get bad sector on my hard drive?
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Sep 27, 2011
I wanted to know if anyone knows how to establish a network between Windows 7 pro. and Windows Xp
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Jul 26, 2012
I haven't used Event Viewer before and I'm not sure how to interpret events. All I want is to establish whether a PC was a) on and b) in use between 00:00 and 03:30 on a particular day. What is the easiest way to go about that?
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Dec 25, 2012
Having gone through all the setting up processes, my system will not produce Minidump Files, an SCSI miniport is mentioned as part of the production process, yet I have searched my system and cannot find one.
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Aug 3, 2011
I'm trying to network 2 computers together in our office. The computers are HP's P6000.When I go to computer A I can see the folders on computer B.And it's the same when I go to B I can see A but I can't access any files. I keep getting the I don't have permission prompt to access the computer (that's on both computers). I changed the settings and passwords, followed the directions from the Microsoft website, tried to Google the answer, but I still get the same prompt.
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Jul 5, 2011
How do you establish an automatic VPN connection in Windows 7?I can establish the VPN connection but I have to click on it and "Connect" every time.I'm trying to establish an always on connection, like you could do with WinXP.
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Aug 3, 2011
I'm trying to network 2 computers together in our office. The computers are HP's P6000. When I go to computer A I can see the folders on computer B.And it's the same when I go to B I can see A but I can't access any files. I keep getting the I don't have permission prompt to access the computer (that's on both computers). I changed the settings and passwords, followed the directions from the Microsoft website, tried to Google the answer, but I still get the same prompt.
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Jul 22, 2012
I recently got a new laptop, running Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit. I've been having connectivity issues with the internet, and it doesn't seem to be related to the router, as the same issue happens on different wireless networks. The majority of the time when I wake up my computer from sleep, it won't be automatically connecting to my home network, even though it's set to. When I try and connect, it does the whole "windows is taking an unusually long time to connect" deal. To solve it I usually go through troubleshoot. It doesn't find any problems (other than Hamachi IP issue, but this problem persisted before I downloaded Hamachi, and it doesn't seem to affect anything). Once troubleshoot finishes, it's usually about a minute or two later when it magically connects. Sometimes the internet disconnects right in the middle of me doing something, and to solve this I usually turn the switch on the front to turn off all wireless, wait a few seconds and turn it back on, and this usually solves the problem, for the time being.
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Oct 16, 2012
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. I need to use wireless keyboard. When I use bluetooth device it can detect my keyboard but it is unable to establish the connection with keyboard. I can't understand what is the problem. The required driver is installed successfully.
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Nov 8, 2009
I cannot establish a remote desktop connection between two computers in my home LAN running Windows 7.I have two computers in my home network, VAIO and SCALEO. On VAIO I installed Windows 7. On SCALEO I installed both Windows XP and Windows 7 as dual boot configuration. The Windows 7 version I am using is the free downloadable evaluation installation of Windows 7 Enterprise. Both installations are activated.When I run Windows XP on SCALEO (and Windows 7 on VAIO), I can establish RDC between both computers, both ways, without any problems.When I run Windows 7 on SCALEO (hence, on both machines), establishing RDC fails on either machine with the following message:"Your credentials did not work. The credentials that were used to connect to ... (VAIO/SCALEO) did not work. Please enter new credentials."I have followed all instructions in the tutorial of this forum how to set up a computer for remote desktop connection. I can see both machines in their network folders. I successfully established a homegroup where both machines share data. I am able to share folders on both machines and map them as network drives. I am able to copy data between both machines.
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May 28, 2011
Brother gave me his computer and removed all of his user data, when I try to log on to internet, being asked for user name and password. How to I either change or establish or create user name and password.
p.s. no start up disk, Hewlett Packard, with Windows 7.
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Feb 6, 2013
So I finally got around to checking one of my set ups and I discovered that it does not have the Windows 7 100MB section on the SSD. I double checked with Macrium and sure enough, there is no 100MB section on the SSD.
Is there a way to install it without having to reload the entire O/S again?
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Dec 30, 2011
I am trying to access my work PC remotely after doing a fresh install of windows and receiving the below:"Remote desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:
1) Remote access to the server is not enabled
2) The remote computer is turned off
3) The remote computer is not available on the network
Make sure the remote computer is turned on and connected to the network, and that remote access is enabled."I have established some sort of VPN connection through the browser with work (sorry I am not very technically inclined, icon says "network connect" in the taskbar and shows I am conected), our techie guy said then just run Remote Desktop and type in my computer name and should connect, which it is not.
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May 19, 2011
I have win xp and want to upgrade to Win 7 x64.I know this requires a clean install.My question is, if I have programs loaded on other drives, can I reestablish paths to those programs via Win 7 without having to reinstall the programs? I understand that any programs on the same drive as the OS will need to be reloaded.
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Oct 11, 2012
The network adapter could not establish the connection oracle sql developer
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Feb 3, 2013
I have down loaded ORACLE sql developer 11g. I have extracted the files and gotten it to open.Now I am trying to open a new connection
The program is asking fo:r
Connection Name_________________
Username ______________________
Password_______________________
Hostname______________________
Port___________________________
SID____________________________
I have filled these out and I get an error message.The network adapter could not establish a connection.
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Oct 17, 2012
I bought this computer three months ago, and had no problems, up until now. It all started with it freezing up all of a sudden, forcing me to restart. But the display didn't show up. Tried again. Didn't work. Eventually, I removed my GPU and placed it back again, thinking it was loose. Then it finally worked.
Then it happened again. So after taking out my graphics card twice, it finally started working, but my HDD started making strange sounds. A sound I've never heard before, and only occurred during start up. I shrugged it off.
Now I start getting these sort of instances, when what ever program I have open, stops responding and Windows get's pretty laggy. The Windows Explorer (Not IE, the tool bar thing) also is unresponsive. I know it can't be a virus, Trend Micro showed no signs of anything after I scanned my computer a bunch of times.
So I did what any sane person would do, I did a bit of research on the net, and found this thread on this forums. The person here had a similar problem that I did. After reading most of the comments, I downloaded HDD SMART, as instructed, and apparently "Current Pending Sector Count" is yellow.
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Jun 11, 2011
I`ve got a serious problem with my vaio. i was surfing the net that i faced a BAD SECTOR ERROR on system 32. As I closed the ERROR,the system restarted. When I select the windows 7 to boot, the windows logo page come and restart again and again.Even when i decided to install a new version or repair it,the installation found no drive to install on.\
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Jul 1, 2012
i downloaded the free edition of Oracle SQL Developer for 32-bit Windows (This zip file includes the JDK1.6.0_11) - though i run 64bit - windows 7 After extraction, i double click sqldeveloper.exe under new connection window what should be my inputs for connection name, username, password,hostname, port, sid when i give sample inputs and test for connection it throws "Status : Failure -Test failed: IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection" how to establish a successful connection
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