OS booting Problems!

Started by Spinor October 12th, 2010 7:23 PM
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Spinor

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Alright people, here's the sequel to IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL >__>

So then it turns out it was my hard disk that was failing.

I Reinstalled W7 x64 on my back up drive

I reinstalled again on a new sexy 1TB drive

This whole time it used the original failing disk to boot the operating systems >__> It still boots the OS that was in the disk, the OS in the back up drive, and the OS I'm using in the 1Tb drive right now.

Right. I tested changing the disk booting priorities on the BIOS. Only the old drive boots and gives the menu of the 3 OSs. So basically, I need to make my 1TB disk bootable. Any way to make it so? >__>

donavannj

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Only thing I can think of is to take the old drive out and hope the other drives detect this and have a bootloader configured. :\

I'm thinking you may need to reinstall the other two disks from scratch, though, based on my limited experience working with bootloaders. :\
whoops
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So you can boot from w7 dvd okay?

This is probably not what you are looking for and would be the nuclear bomb approach but did you already try resetting the BIOS to factory defaults with only the TB drive connected and then after booting up win7 from the dvd removing all the partitions on the TB drive and installing w7?
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Archer

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So it's still booting off the failing disk because that's where the boot manager is? First way to test is removing the failing disk. If it no longer boots, that's where the boot manager resides, so you'll need to fix that. Remove all drives except the one you're installing to. Boot off the Windows DVD and select recovery mode. When it finally loads, choose to go into the cmd prompt. Once you're in there, you should be able to run the command bootrec.exe. This should restore the MBR to the current disk, allowing you to boot off it. Then, just ensure that it's the disk that's selected in the BIOS.

Spinor

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So it's still booting off the failing disk because that's where the boot manager is? First way to test is removing the failing disk. If it no longer boots, that's where the boot manager resides, so you'll need to fix that. Remove all drives except the one you're installing to. Boot off the Windows DVD and select recovery mode. When it finally loads, choose to go into the cmd prompt. Once you're in there, you should be able to run the command bootrec.exe. This should restore the MBR to the current disk, allowing you to boot off it. Then, just ensure that it's the disk that's selected in the BIOS.
After researching and shamelessly screwing around with the command prompt ^__^ I got my 1TB booting apparently. Thanks, that was a life saver

Archer

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After researching and shamelessly screwing around with the command prompt ^__^ I got my 1TB booting apparently. Thanks, that was a life saver
Haha, no worries. Did what I said work on its own?

Archer

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Actually, bootrec.exe had to be run with /fixboot.
Damn, I was going to suggest that, but I seemed to remember it just running /fixboot and /fixmbr if there were no other modifiers.