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First post... Issues with MBR
Hiya,
My first post here. I don't hang out in Windows help forums but when you need them I'm glad they are there!!
OK, here's my story. I received my upgrade copy of Windows 7 the other day and couldn't wait to get to the weekend to get it installed and say "bye bye crapy Vista". All was going well on Sunday. Backed up my files and then proceeded to install Windows 7 (rather than upgrade, it's cleaner that way, plus my old Windows and settings are stored in Windows.old folder so no biggie).
OK, next morning I get up and proceed to get my programs installed. I'm going along, getting things installed and key codes entered and tweaking settings as I go along. I come to my Utilities folder with all those exe's and zips within and install a bunch of those (including Winzip, WinRAR and what not) then I come upon Acronis .... partitioning and boot software... OK cool, just in case I need that sure why not?? It was version 10.... little did I realize it was going to affect my boot sector. So at one point I needed to reboot... so I did....
Got past the BIOS and all that and up pops the Acronis software... WTF?? I look and do not see Windows 7 as a bootable OS! Months and months ago I messed around with Ubuntu Linux and had to install Grub to boot into it. What a frigging mess that made of things. I ended up loosing it all. Had to reinstall Windows Vista (luckily the Windows.old folder was there so I was able to recover most of my files and settings). So I THOUGHT that old boot sector had been wiped out. Guess not.
So there I am stuck in this Acronis UI looking at what? TWO instances of Linux to boot into, in which I KNOW neither exists because I wiped out those partitions months ago and yet Acronis found the OLD boot sector and did not find Windows 7, being that it was a version too old to do that!
Through many moments of frustration (to put it lightly) I got back into Windows, went on line and immediately went to the Acronis web site and bought tech help ($10.00 down the drain). I sat there for 1/2 hour waiting for someone to help me and then he told me that since I used the wrong version of Acronis that it was out of his hands. My answer back was "Oh, so I'm out $10.00, NICE! I waited for a response and eventually gave up. I won't ever buy from them again and I'm thoroughly fed up with them and their "support". My fault I know but you know, you pay for support you expect them to at least give you options. Oh he did give me an option... you can buy the newest version which will fix your issue....
So anyway, I also created a "Repair Disk" and booted back out and in and repaired the issue. Kind of...
Now I'm getting this message when I boot in.....
"Non system disk, press any key to continue" I hit the Enter key and then I boot into Windows.
How can I fix that??
Also I had a question about using the "Repair Disk". If you had to use the Command Prompt and you want to fix the MBR you would type in what exactly??
fixmbr
fix mbr
or .....?
Thanks and sorry for the long story but hope that gives folks enough info. I can build a computer from scratch but I know little about boot sectors, command line commands or anything like that!!
Thanks
Richard