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Windows 7 installation: Missing operating system after using imagex.
Hello all,
First of, I like to introduce myself as I am new on this forum.
I'm an IT proffesional, currently going learning for my Configuring Windows 7.
I used windows 7 since the first beta came out, and I must say, I never was dissapointed by it.
But because I am learning I am trying to get all the computers here running windows 7, and I have a computer in my office wich I am trying to install it on.
There are a few problems thoug:
The computer only has a CDrom player, and cannot boot from a usb device.
When I first got it, windows XP was installed, and it only had 750 mb of memory. Stupid as I was, I decided to give it a try anyway installing windows 7 from inside Windows XP using an external DVD player connected with USB.
This failed, and gave me lots of error so I tried the next step.
As It cannot find a network share I had to instal windows PE on a CDrom and from there I could acces my extrernal HDD where I had a clean copy of windows 7 on as INSTALL.wim. I cleaned everything, and created everything from scratch with succes. Image X worked, and BCDboot worked. So it seemed to go great.
After restarting my system, it still will only give me, Missing operating system.
I tried to search on the internet but couldn't really find something related to my problem.
In the bios it says I can start from IDE CD-rom device, Diskette drive, Hard-Disk Drive c:, Integrated NIC (Disabled)
I bought some different memory and I am now at 1.5 mb DDR
It is an Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.4 Ghz Level Cachge 512 Integrated.
It's a DELL Optiplex Gx260 Series.
The boot menu gives me:
1. Normal
2. Hard-Disk Drive C: (Wich I used for my 100mb) (And I used D for my big partition and with BCDboot I used D:\Windows\System32\bcdboot d:\windows /s D: ) Wich worked because he did copy the files.
3. IDE CD-rom Device
4. System Setup
5. IDE Drive Diagnostics
6. Boot to Utility Partition
Whatever I choose, I can either go to the WindowsPE cd-rom or get the error.
I hope someone can help me out a bit. As I put much time in to this.
Sorry for my language but I am Dutch lol
Many Thx!