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Installiation trouble with Win-7 Home Premium 64 bit
Lets see if I can clearly state my issue . . . My computer is a home build Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3 with 8GB ram and I have FOUR hard drives. I had three HDs but just bought a new one. One drive is a WD 1TB 7200 rpm drive I use for backups and storage.
I have Win-XP on a Samsung 150 EVO SSD
I have Win-7 32 bit on a Samsung 250 EVO SSD.
I had them set up to not use a boot manager because I want to just be able to hit F12 for the Bios boot menu and it's been working great for over a year.
I just bought a Samsung 850 Pro 256GB to install and test Win-7 64 bit. My plan is - if, after a few months of testing, all my programs I need work on it, then I will use the 64 bit as my primary OS and activate it and quit using Win-7 32 because I don’t want to buy another license (but I digress)
When I tried to install the 64 bit on the new drive it gave me an error message that it could not install it on the MBR partition so I tried it again and got the same message but then I just clicked OK and it continued the installation but when it was done I had a boot manager screen every time I restarted. I found no solution on line so I went into MSConfig and deleted the second drive (64 bit) from boot manager. Then I unplugged the XP and Win-7 32 bit drives from the Mother Board and started over. I still got the error message "cant install on MBR" (paraphrased) so I just selected "delete" from the setup screen wich deleted that MBR and it set itself up with three partitions (going by memory here) but it only shows up as two partitions in Disk Management with the first one being EFI System.
So now the part that bugs me . . . When I go into the BIOS, the three Samsung drives do not show up at all so I cannot set the boot order but I now have a "boot manager" listed and my WD and my two CD's are listed.
So the BIG QUESTION is . . . Is there a way I can get rid of the boot manager? Where is it? Only the "current" OS (default OS) is listed in the Boot Tab of MSConfig in Win-7 32 bit which is what I'm using as my primary operating system still since I haven’t installed any programs on x64 yet.
And do I HAVE to have that EFI System Partition with Win-7 64 bit? (is that another thread?)
I know you guys on Seven Forums are great. I've never not gotten good advice here even though I cam to Windows 7 way late in the game making almost all the threads old and inactive. :0)
Thanks in advance
Edit: When I do hit F12 for the BIOS's boot menu and I select the Boot Manager I then get a screen that states something to the effect that it did not boot correctly and when I make a selection it then gives me the message "Reboot and select Proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device . . ."
Edit: Now one of the Samsung SSD is showing up in the Bios. I'm not making any changes so I don't know why the Bios is changing but the other two SSD's are still missing and the WD is missing from this screen but they are all listed when I hit F12 for the boot options after the motherboard posts (beeps)
The Boot Options image is from Bios Setup.
Last edited by john1955; 01 Nov 2017 at 14:19.