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Win7 MBR "Ghost" Entries on Boot Up
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A friend of mine has tried 3 times to install Windows 7 onto a 2nd partition of his WinpXP machine, all resulting in a BSOD at around 60% of the installation, now when he boots up his WinXP he has 1 x WinXP option and 3 x Win7 options to boot into but the Win7 options are duds of course because the installations failed.
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Problem solved - friend did a WinXP reinstall.
Computer type PC/Desktop Computer Manufacturer/Model Number Homebuild OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 CPU DualCore Intel Pentium D 820, 2800 MHz (14 x 200) Motherboard Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Memory Kingston DDR3 (PC3-10700H) 6.0GB Graphics Card(s) AMD Radeon HD 6450 Sound Card Realtek ALC882/D/M Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2233SW Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Hard Drives Drive #1 - WDC WD2500JB-22REA0 (232 GB) PSU EVGA Supernova 750w G2 Gold Cooling 5 x 80mm Generic Fans Keyboard Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 Mouse SteelSeries IKARI 62001-1 Laser or Microsoft Laser 6000 Internet Speed 1500/256 Antivirus NOD32 v10.1.235.0 Browser FireFox 59.0.2 X64bit Other Info Telstra Technicolor TG799vac Modem
Sounds nice that it is solved. But reinstallation is not required.
Download EasyBCD and install it (but for in xp, install dotnet framework 2 earlier). Using it, the unneeded boot entries can be easily deleted, and necessary boot entries may be added.
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You can also remove boot menu ghost entries in msconfig>Boot tab.
Easiest way in this case would be: fdisk /mbr
Easiest way in this case would be: fdisk /mbr
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You can also remove boot menu ghost entries in msconfig>Boot tab.
Didn't work gregrocker that's why he did the re-install or Repair of WinXP.
Computer type PC/Desktop Computer Manufacturer/Model Number Homebuild OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 CPU DualCore Intel Pentium D 820, 2800 MHz (14 x 200) Motherboard Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Memory Kingston DDR3 (PC3-10700H) 6.0GB Graphics Card(s) AMD Radeon HD 6450 Sound Card Realtek ALC882/D/M Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2233SW Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Hard Drives Drive #1 - WDC WD2500JB-22REA0 (232 GB) PSU EVGA Supernova 750w G2 Gold Cooling 5 x 80mm Generic Fans Keyboard Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 Mouse SteelSeries IKARI 62001-1 Laser or Microsoft Laser 6000 Internet Speed 1500/256 Antivirus NOD32 v10.1.235.0 Browser FireFox 59.0.2 X64bit Other Info Telstra Technicolor TG799vac Modem
