Dual Boot screen doesn't appear

I am not quite sure if it is a OS specific problem; but I have Windows 7 installed alongside Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop. Recently I’ve got a problem, when I boot the computer the Motherboard graphic appears and goes black, the OS choice screen doesn't appear. As I know from previous experiences the...

Hello I have been running a desktop with XP Pro SP3 for 5 years. It has 3 HDD - one for OS/programs and two for data. I just installed a SSD and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 onto it. I can boot OK into either OS. However, in W7 I can see all four HDD OK, whereas in XP I can only see the SSD...

Hi. Sorry for having a bad title. It's midnight. :p Well anyways, i've got a little situation. I'll try to put this as short as possible ( hopefully ). - Just spent 15 minutes typing text below and decided to re-type as it's getting way too long :p - So........ I've always been on Dual...

Ok, a bit of a background on this: I HAD a dual boot with XP and Win 7 on two separate drives with a menu system at the beginning. a) XP on an IDE - 80gig - installed first about 3 years ago b) Win7 64 bit - SATA 1T - installed in the new year. I lost the 80gig drive and so I bought a new...

I 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...