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Removed my Vista hard drive, now Windows 7 won't Boot?
Hey everyone. I obtained a student copy of Windows 7 back in October like many of us did, and like many of us, I installed as a clean install, not an upgrade. Or so I thought.
I was running Windows 7 for months before I decided to finally remove the Vista harddrive (I installed Windows 7 on the Intel 80GB X25M.) Apparently, when I removed the drive, I wasn't able to boot into Windows 7. Now I thought I had done a clean install of Windows 7.
I think I should mention that during bootup, my Bios gives me two OS's to choose from, and they both say Windows 7. But, only one actually worked. The second choice would just bring me back to my Bios rebooting and brought me back to the OS choice screen.
So for now, I have reconnected my Vista harddrive so I am able to use my install of Windows 7.
Why would this happen if I did a clean install (installed by burning the upgrade setup to the DVD, then onto a clean new drive, and activated it successfully.) And why would it show my two Windows 7 choices at bootup?
I hope you guys can answer these questions for me. Can't seem to understand what went wrong.