Soldato
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Okay okay, story time - sit around the camp fire and eat crumpets!! My old computer ran Windows XP and had like 3 SATA hard disks (80GB had XP, other two for storage 320GB and 500GB)
So I build a new computer (games, innit lads?) and want a bigger drive and to use Windows 7. So I add the 3 hard disks to the new computer and install Windows 7 on the 320GB, simple task. When I reboot I am asked do I want Windows XP or 7, I try XP just to see what happens and as expected BSOD so anyway I think okay, Windows 7 time and I experience that magic people talk about on forums when you first load up Windows 7, nice and clean on a new computer. So I try to format the Windows XP drive and it wont let me! So I try it under device manager and I got another message which I have somehow forgot which was something maybe about system or active drives cannot be formatted.
So like an idiot, I use a boot disk and force format it, that way.
It tries to boot and NO NTLDR. So I try booting from the Windows 7 drive and there is a flashing dash/underline (you know what I mean, DOSy things
) a few lines down and it does just does that, idles.
So it looks like the boot loader/mbr thingy is completely messed up.
Is there an easy fix that does NOT require the Windows 7 disc? If not I'll have to hunt it down. Is there a way I can write whatever Windows 7 uses to the boot sector thingy?
So I build a new computer (games, innit lads?) and want a bigger drive and to use Windows 7. So I add the 3 hard disks to the new computer and install Windows 7 on the 320GB, simple task. When I reboot I am asked do I want Windows XP or 7, I try XP just to see what happens and as expected BSOD so anyway I think okay, Windows 7 time and I experience that magic people talk about on forums when you first load up Windows 7, nice and clean on a new computer. So I try to format the Windows XP drive and it wont let me! So I try it under device manager and I got another message which I have somehow forgot which was something maybe about system or active drives cannot be formatted.
So like an idiot, I use a boot disk and force format it, that way.
It tries to boot and NO NTLDR. So I try booting from the Windows 7 drive and there is a flashing dash/underline (you know what I mean, DOSy things
) a few lines down and it does just does that, idles.So it looks like the boot loader/mbr thingy is completely messed up.
Is there an easy fix that does NOT require the Windows 7 disc? If not I'll have to hunt it down. Is there a way I can write whatever Windows 7 uses to the boot sector thingy?
