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doubled up OS disaster
Learning the hard way. Have a m7160n desktop that came with XP. I did a XP/W7 conversion upgrade using the W7 on a flash drive. It worked fine for a year after I told the bios to use the flash for booting. I just pulled off a different W7 OS from a different laptop HD and put it on my C drive (without partitioning it, if that was my mistake), so I could store it for later use on a replacement laptop HD. (the laptops HD was possibly going bad). On my next restart my PC wont start W7, tries to do some kind of recovery on XP, but can't. I can't pull up a last known good config screen with any F keys, nor get into any way to do a system restore. Looks like I did something dumb, what can I do to correct my screwup? Could the laptop W7 be activated temporarily until I can fix the other problem , if nothing else? My PC does have a D partition for recovery. MS says I need to get the XP going first before they can help me get the W7 going again. HP says old and out of support of course. Thanks for any ideas.