Win 7 turned back into XP!????

[bfly03]

Ok so just now my win7 machine turned back into XP. I have no idea why or how and it will not let me login. it asks me to authorize online, i try it but it can not reach the internet (which it is connected to).

Anyone have an idea on what is going on? I just used my machine last night and it was working fine. I shut down and boot up after I get back from work and it is showing XP.....

I have so much work to do and nothing can get done.
Please help!

cheers,

 

[baarod]

You cannot login yet it's asking you to activate? How many partitions are on your hard disk(s)? Sounds like either your BIOS or boot manager started an old XP installation by mistake.

 

[bfly03]

yes, the xp screen comes up and before i click on my icon to login a popup occurs asking me to activate.

i do have multiple partitions on my hdd as well as a couple of drives. i think it is pulling the old xp by mistake but how can i fix this? or test to see if that is the case?

 

[kucing13]

your pc like xp maybe.

 

[Krispy1]

either u have a partition with xp thats booting, or u downloaded some crap bootleg windows xp that was skinned with windows 7

 

[DocBrown]

Did you have your Bios setup configured to Boot from the HD that has win7 on it ?

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

yes, the xp screen comes up and before i click on my icon to login a popup occurs asking me to activate.

i do have multiple partitions on my hdd as well as a couple of drives. i think it is pulling the old xp by mistake but how can i fix this? or test to see if that is the case?

Could you tell us how your drives are set up?

For example, before I formatted and just put Windows 7 on my main drives (RAID0 ftw!) it looked something like this;

Drive 1/2 (RAID0): Windows 7 Partition | Windows XP Partition | Ubuntu 10.04 Partition
Drive 3 (Secondary): Storage Partition

 

[bfly03]

no the win 7 is legit. i will try booting from one of the other drives i guess.

 

[bfly03]

yes, the xp screen comes up and before i click on my icon to login a popup occurs asking me to activate.

i do have multiple partitions on my hdd as well as a couple of drives. i think it is pulling the old xp by mistake but how can i fix this? or test to see if that is the case?

Could you tell us how your drives are set up?

For example, before I formatted and just put Windows 7 on my main drives (RAID0 ftw!) it looked something like this;

Main: Windows 7 Partition | Windows XP Partition | Ubuntu 10.04 Partition
Secondary: Storage Partition

my master had vista, upgraded to 7 and is partitioned. an old drive (slave) had and i am guessing still has xp on it, and is partitioned as well.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

yes, the xp screen comes up and before i click on my icon to login a popup occurs asking me to activate.

i do have multiple partitions on my hdd as well as a couple of drives. i think it is pulling the old xp by mistake but how can i fix this? or test to see if that is the case?

Could you tell us how your drives are set up?

For example, before I formatted and just put Windows 7 on my main drives (RAID0 ftw!) it looked something like this;

Main: Windows 7 Partition | Windows XP Partition | Ubuntu 10.04 Partition
Secondary: Storage Partition

my master had vista, upgraded to 7 and is partitioned. an old drive (slave) had and i am guessing still has xp on it, and is partitioned as well.

Try removing the XP drive for now. If you can get into Windows 7 afterwards let me know.

 

[bfly03]

darknova,

i just did that and 7 came up fine

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

darknova,

i just did that and 7 came up fine

Sounds like your BIOS is just loading the slave drive instead of the primary. In the BIOS somewhere there should be a setting to change that.

If you need help on how to let me know.

 

[bfly03]

i will take a look and if i cant figure it out ill ask for your assistance. thanks again! do you know how this would have changed on its own?

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

i will take a look and if i cant figure it out ill ask for your assistance. thanks again! do you know how this would have changed on its own?

Before I updated my BIOS to the latest one, when I plugged a USB Flash Drive into a USB port, it would change the boot order of my drives to boot the Secondary drive first.

Whether this is the case or not for you I do not know but you could always see if theres a BIOS update for your motherboard.

 

[bfly03]

i will take a look and if i cant figure it out ill ask for your assistance. thanks again! do you know how this would have changed on its own?

Before I updated my BIOS to the latest one, when I plugged a USB Flash Drive into a USB port, it would change the boot order of my drives to boot the Secondary drive first.

Whether this is the case or not for you I do not know but you could always see if theres a BIOS update for your motherboard.

i did just get a new phone and had it plugged in usb.... maybe. ill check on the update, everything is working fine now. thanks agan

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

i will take a look and if i cant figure it out ill ask for your assistance. thanks again! do you know how this would have changed on its own?

Before I updated my BIOS to the latest one, when I plugged a USB Flash Drive into a USB port, it would change the boot order of my drives to boot the Secondary drive first.

Whether this is the case or not for you I do not know but you could always see if theres a BIOS update for your motherboard.

i did just get a new phone and had it plugged in usb.... maybe. ill check on the update, everything is working fine now. thanks agan

You are most welcome. Feel free to ask anymore questions if needed.

 

[baarod]

i will take a look and if i cant figure it out ill ask for your assistance. thanks again! do you know how this would have changed on its own?

If you've got an overclocking friendly BIOS it can decide to change BIOS setting automatically in the event it thinks the computer crashed to due overclocking. Some of these changes are rather indiscriminate. Or maybe you updated your BIOS? Those are the two things I can think of off the top of my head.