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Win7 Won't Boot After Install Without DVD Using 2 HDD
So, I have an interesting problem with installing Win 7 from XP. I'm doing a full install over the old XP drive.

I have an unusual hardware configuration. I have 2 HDD's, one is SATA, and the other is on a legacy IDE. The SATA drive is a WD Raptor which I use for the OS and the IDE is a slower, larger drive I use for storing data. Additionally, the IDE drive is the Slave on the IDE chain. In XP, this worked great, because the system would boot to the SATA drive and I could use both drives.

When I went to install 7, both drives appear in the list, but their letter names were reversed: the OS drive was listed as "D" and the data drive was listed as "C". I didn't think much of it until later. I installed on "D" which was the SATA drive. After install, I noticed that my IDE drive wasn't listed in file explorer.

So I opened the Disk Manager and found that both drives were listed, but only the install disk was active. However, the IDE drive was Disk 0, and the SATA drive was Disk 1 and labeled "C:". I activated the IDE drive and it became "E:" (the DVD-ROM was already "D:"). I attempted to reboot and got an error "BOOTMGR is missing". If I put in the Win 7 install DVD it will boot to the SATA drive.

I read some of the other threads here and attempted fixes using "bootrec.exe" to no avail. I finally decided to reinstall again on the SATA drive. Again, 7 listed the SATA drive as Disk 1/"C:", and the IDE drive as Disk 0/(no letter). This time, I didn't activate the IDE drive and tried to reboot. New message "No system disk...". Put in the Win 7 DVD and it boots to the SATA drive.

My current theory is that Windows 7 is getting confused about the drive ordering when creating the boot sector on the drives. I ran out of time last night, but I thought I would unplug the IDE drive and do a fresh install on the SATA drive, then plug in the IDE drive after things were booting normally.

I did check the BIOS settings, and the SATA drive is listed first in the boot order.

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe

AMD 4200+ CPU

OCZ 4GB RAM

(IDE) Hitachi 320GB

(SATA) WD Raptor 120GB

nVidia 7600GT

Can someone offer some advice on how to solve this so I don't need the Win 7 DVD in all the time?

Posted: 10-28-2009

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In the past I have purchased both XP Pro 64 and Vista premium 64 with the expectation that they would be able to utilize most of my 32 bit drivers and 32 bit programs if they are not available in 64 bit.Â

I was strongly impressed with the obviously superior smooth and effortless functioning of both of those 64 bit OSs, but I had to quit using both because of the limited availability of 64 drivers, and the lack of ability to run a number of my 32 bit programs.Â

It seems to me that we are far behind in the switch over to 64 bit functionality, not because of CPU, or basic system design, but because the Windows OSs are designed either 32 bit or 64 bit. Given the design and capabilities of most CPUs and systems in use today one would think 64 bit capable hardware, software, drivers, etc. would by now, dominate the market.Â

I would also think a 64 bit OS would be more 32 bit compatible, with the ability of running either mode, depending on the system and software base capabilities.Â

My preference would be to, again, attempt to make the switch to a 64 bit OS (Win 7), but I don't want to purchase another OS if it is still going to have the same compatibility problems as the previous Windows 64 OSs.

Â I am best described as a "home geek", who is retired, but uses his computers for multitasking, web surfing (many pages open) and personal photo work, video sorting, editing and rendering, on a frequent basis; so I could certainly utilize the 64 bit operating system's cabability to better manage my multi-core CPU systems.

Would some of the "Win 7 64" Gurus and users please provide some feedback and guidance to me as to whether they think it would be worthwhile to try to convert to 64 bit again with Windows 7 given my usage.

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:48 PM

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Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:36 AM

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I've been using Win7 since the beta, and not once have I had this problem 'till now (and I've used builds 7000, 7100, 7229, and 7260 without issues).

But starting with build 7600.16384 (I have the RTM now (7600.16385)), I've been having trouble getting 32-bit programs to work. At first they were slow to start--now they won't start at all. Originally I could work around it by running them apps as Admin w/compatability for Vista SP2, but now even that doesn't work.

64-bit apps startup fine (Photoshop, IE8, any built-in app, etc.), but anything 32-bit will just sit in the Task Manager all day, with the memory usage never above 3-4MB, and simply fail to start. No error messages, no abrupt termination, just nothing. The only exceptions have been FL Studio 8 and Steam (but Steam games won't run), both of which run perfectly despite being 32-bit.

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Posted: 08-03-2009

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Put DVD in, selected the blank partition, began the install. Once it gets to the first reboot, it will reboot and go straight into XP. There is no option to choose Windows 7. The XP boot.ini has only one entry for XP.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking I need to add an entry for Windows 7, but have no clue what to put and I'm also guessing I'd have to add a few special tags because it's booting into the setup process of Win 7.

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i can't figure out what's wrong with my hardware. someone said that the problem could be with my memory. it's DDR1. and a friend of mine said that Vista and win7 needs at least ddr2. is it true? btw i have win xp installed...

Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:00 PM

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Therefore, you can't backup the data... the first step in the process.Can I use the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Backup and Restore Center to backup the data and then restore it using the 32-bit version of Windows 7?Can I use the 64-bit version of Vista's built-in Backup and Retore to backup the data, and use Windows 7 32-bit Backup and Restore Center to READ the data?

Posted: Sunday, August 16, 2009 9:59 PM

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The recognizer language must match the language of the user interface. Please change the recognizer language in the Speech Recognition control panel under Advanced Options." I go there and press certain buttons and I sometimes get the error message "The requested task can not be carried out because the neccesary engine can not be created. Please select a different engine and/or audio device."

I have tried changing the laguage and then restarting and it still won't work. I am using the same mic I was using before when it worked. I have not installed any new sound drivers when it stopped although I have looked for the sound drivers since and there are no new ones.

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Posted: Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:05 PM

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Anyone have any ideas? I don't want to buy a new printer, or stick with XP.

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as well as I have straight up 32bit and 64bit programs only that some install but most do not.
Why is this?

This is how it always goes, every time too.

I start the installation process and it starts doing it's thing.

All looks good so far, as the installer takes you through to each next step, like normal.
And then it comes!

After a couple of three of these first things (which all seem like they are working normal)
all of a sudden, I see that it wants to install something quite normal, a "MicroSoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (64)" file/program/whatever and as the little green process line grows it gets almost to the end, and sits there for a few seconds and then I get THIS popup error message:

http://www.md-arts.com/scrn/64bit_Windows7_InstallingError_Cxx2005.JPG

Is there something I can do to fix this?

I have even tried downloading this file off the net and installed it, but it never seems as though it did any good, since I still get these same problems.

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Tried removing the device and having Windows Update search for a driver. No luck.

Tried installing driver from selecting from list. Only Sigmatel driver in the list is for HD -- which I don't have.

Even tried the MS WDM driver -- and it refused to install it.

I read in another thread that there are supposedly generic AC97 drivers --but I can't figure out how to install them.

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Posted: 06-24-2009

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