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| 28 Aug 2009 | #1 |
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handy tip, thanks,
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| 28 Aug 2009 | #2 |
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| 27 Sep 2009 | #3 |
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Just wondering. I currently have a dual boot with XP. If I want to delete the XP partition can I use this method to fix the mbr after I have deleted the XP partition and resized the Win 7 partition? Or do I need to fix the mbr first and then delete the Xp partition?
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| 27 Sep 2009 | #4 |
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Just wondering. I currently have a dual boot with XP. If I want to delete the XP partition can I use this method to fix the mbr after I have deleted the XP partition and resized the Win 7 partition? Or do I need to fix the mbr first and then delete the Xp partition?
I can not give an accurate answer to your question until I know more about how your OSs are arranged on your hard drive(s). However, if you installed 7 after XP and now want to remove XP then the MBR probably does not need any repair in order to boot to 7. If you just want to remove the XP choice from the boot menu, you can use "msconfig" to delete the XP entry, no MBR fix necessary. (Thanks to Snuffy for this tip!) Cheers! Robert |
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| 23 Oct 2009 | #5 |
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Hi
Wonder if you could help on a little problem I have. I have got Windows 7 Ultimate and installed it on a new hard drive. After installation I partitioned the drive in Windows creating a 400GB, 100GB, 500GB. After this completed I also noticed a 100MB System Reserved section but just ignored it. Everything worked fine. Then I think I did wrong. I wanted to create a dual boot system to also have XP on my PC and tried installing it on the 100GB partition but during instal everything crashed and now I get "Error Loading Operating System" when booting up. I have tried to repair using the Windows 7 DVD but no luck and when I look at the drives in Command Prompt they show as follows: C: System Reserved D: Spare Partition E: Spare (my 2nd hard drive) F: Windows 7 Partition Have tried following the instructions on here and it said succesful but still will not boot. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers |
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| 01 Nov 2009 | #6 |
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Hi
Wonder if you could help on a little problem I have. I have got Windows 7 Ultimate and installed it on a new hard drive. After installation I partitioned the drive in Windows creating a 400GB, 100GB, 500GB. After this completed I also noticed a 100MB System Reserved section but just ignored it. Everything worked fine. Then I think I did wrong. I wanted to create a dual boot system to also have XP on my PC and tried installing it on the 100GB partition but during instal everything crashed and now I get "Error Loading Operating System" when booting up. I have tried to repair using the Windows 7 DVD but no luck and when I look at the drives in Command Prompt they show as follows: C: System Reserved D: Spare Partition E: Spare (my 2nd hard drive) F: Windows 7 Partition Have tried following the instructions on here and it said succesful but still will not boot. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers I am not sure what caused your booting problem. However, Windows 2000 and XP use NTLDR for their boot manager and Vista and Seven use Bootmgr. So by installing XP after installing 7 the Bootmgr has probably been overwritten breaking the boot path to 7. I would suggest you install XP first and then 7 because the 7 Bootmgr will include XP in the boot menu. Here is a link to some tutorials for dual booting: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP If you are still having issues I can have this post moved to its own thread to get more help for you? Cheers! Robert |
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| 02 Nov 2009 | #7 |
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Hi Robert
Thanks for the reply. What I ended up doing for the moment was to buy a new hard drive to install Windows 7, is it possible to multi boot from two different drives or do the two OS need to be on the same physical drive? Thanks Dave |
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| 02 Nov 2009 | #8 |
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When you are installing an OS, just unplug all other hard drives and only work with one at a time. Also, I like to set the current OS partition to C:, and give the other partitions different letters. That way the running OS is always drive C:. There are a few Window's utilities that help edit the Window's boot manager so you can add and remove OSs from its menu, if you need them. Later! Robert |
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| 07 Nov 2009 | #9 |
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this way did not work on my case. i have a laptop installed windows 7, it was okay. until today i saw a article about removing the 100MB of "system reserved" partition.......and yeah...i did removed it by using my win7 installation dvd.. now my laptop wouldnt boot...it shows only operating systen not found"
i tried the method above but at Step 3, mine did not show up any operating system..all blank so i just clicked next then at Step 9 it couldnt restore the bootsector code. it only shows "the system partition was not found: the requested system device cannot be found" and then everything remain the same, still cannot boot. i know i am stupid to remove the system reserved partiton.. but i really need help here, i have imporant data in the laptop so i dont want to format and reinstall... if anyone can help, i really appreciate |
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