windows came with a 32bit disc and a 64bit disc, im sure i installed 64bit because of the disc and the system information. it installed perfectly then i ran updates, this was yesterday morning, and its been fine...very little on it because i just installed it yesterday. Been fine till today it just blacked out and restarted into the old version.
You are booted into C now as evidenced by the Boot flag. So what is on E, and which is the drive you changed letters on? Did you change it back? Do you want to try to start it now, to see?
Perhaps you unplugged all but the wrong drive to install, then when you plugged them back in the BIOS somehow changed boot order back to C.
Browse into DISK0 now via explorer and see what's on it. Post back a screenshot if you want using Snipping Tool in Start Menu.
In fact browse all drives to find which other one has a Windows file on it.
I have 3 internal drives 0 which would be the c: then I have e and f, at least they're e and f in this 32bit version, the e and f drives have nothing but music sessions on them, I disconnect those if I do an install they're connected via ide, when I installed the 64bit version only the 0 or c: was connected, its connected via sata, now when I booted into the 64bit version that 0 partition wasn't c: it was r: and the e: drive you see on the 32bit snapshot was c: but there were no windows files on there, no windows folder, there couldn't have been anyway because it wasn't connected to be installed to.
I also have a 4th drive, an external to back up the 2 drives with sessions on them.
That's the best way I can explain it I hope it wasn't too complicated, its a lot to explain with so many drives.
I've had bsod's before and I usually have the restart turned off to get the stop code but I hadn't turned it off yet in this case because it was a new install with nothing on it except cubase, I hadn't really installed anything yet and even still this wasn't a bsod because the screen just turned black and restarted and then I was back to the login screen in a span of 15 seconds
If you installed 64 bit to DISK0 it would still be DISK0 which is now E, which you say you have music on and cannot see a Windows folder, correct?
Did you change the cables or move the drives at all? Because if you installed 64 bit to DISK0 then it would still be in that slot.
Looking at your Disk Management screen Disk 0 (E) is shown as the active partition but Disk 2 (C) is shown as System,Boot, which makes me think its the one your PC is booting from. You might want to check your BIOS to see what your boot order is. What is on disk 2 (C) as far as files and folders go. You might even want to show hidden and system files and see where your boot files are? What happened after the reboot to make you think you went from 64 bit to 32 bit?
He is booted into C in the screenshot as shown by the Boot flag. He says that is his original 32 bit.
I think he installed 64 bit to E and it lost it's boot order to C as you suspect.
Something is messed up? I think I would unplug both the IDE drives, check the boot order in the BIOS and see what happens when you boot it up.
Windows juat came back with this after a scan TrojanOS/Alureon.A it says it has something to do with the MBR anybody run into this before?
Wow haha not trojan
I haven't run into it myself. You might want to download and run the malicious software removal tool > Malicious Software Removal Tool | Protect Your Computer
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