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Hard Drive Format? Problem
I've got a strange one that I've been working on. The drive had/has Vista 32 bit on it and I can format the drive with my Windows 7 system (it's a drive 3 that I have installed on this system). The status as shown by the screen shot is "healthy active partition".
The first thing I did was run repair but it reported it was unable to repair the install.
I've reformatted the drive - full format, not quick, booted from the Acronis boot CD, reinstalled an Acronis True Image full hard drive backup to the drive (a couple of times). But, it still will not boot, Windows starts to load then it blue screens but the blue screen and info are only there for a brief second and not enough to see the error. I even tried reinstalling Vista, reformat the hard drive and install and it still fails the same way.
I can access the drive from the Windows Explorer and the proper disc contents are displayed. I've run error checking and it doesn't find anything.
I thought it had something to do with the bootmgr (and may still do) but reformatting, reinstalling, etc should have corrected that.
I hate to say the hard drive is bad since no errors show up and it formats properly.
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