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Windows trying to boot from wrong directory, how to fix?

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See picture http://i.imgur.com/Z1PbzlW.jpg I've changed it back to "Windows" and still this problem persists.

Oh Gawd, How to recover windows 10 from a failed duel boot of 7

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I have windows 7 and when 10 came out, I upgraded but I duel booted it. Keep my 7 OS on a seperate drive and installed 10 on my new SSD. I had a hankering to play Black and White 2 but windows 10 didn't support it, so i booted up my old 7 to play it. The 7 OS had somehow become corrupt and I had to reinstall (repair failed). So I grabbed my disk and opened a new partition and installed 7 on...

New MotherBoard need advice on how not to reinstall windows??

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Hi Guys, I am entertaining the idea of getting a new Motherboard and CPU. Now I seen older guides on how to switch over without reinstalling Windows from scratch.. I was wondering are there any new ways of doing it or newer guides I can follow.. I don't remember everything I need to do so I would like to reread a Guide on How to do it that is more uptoo date or still Good to use.. I...

W7 reinstallation after SSD crash blocking Defender and Bluetooth

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I recently suffered a hard disk (SSD) failure on my W7 professional 64 bit Dell Latitude. Dell's engineer installed a new SSD and W7 from a new USB supplied by Dell. Several things didn't work but in particular Windows Defender would not run, message "Windows Defender blocked by Group policy. The laptop was shipped with Bluetooth which also used to run properly. However now the application...

Windows trying to boot from wrong directory, how to fix?

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See picture http://i.imgur.com/Z1PbzlW.jpg I've changed it back to "Windows" and still this problem persists.

Oh Gawd, How to recover windows 10 from a failed duel boot of 7

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I have windows 7 and when 10 came out, I upgraded but I duel booted it. Keep my 7 OS on a seperate drive and installed 10 on my new SSD. I had a hankering to play Black and White 2 but windows 10 didn't support it, so i booted up my old 7 to play it. The 7 OS had somehow become corrupt and I had to reinstall (repair failed). So I grabbed my disk and opened a new partition and installed 7 on...

New MotherBoard need advice on how not to reinstall windows??

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Hi Guys, I am entertaining the idea of getting a new Motherboard and CPU. Now I seen older guides on how to switch over without reinstalling Windows from scratch.. I was wondering are there any new ways of doing it or newer guides I can follow.. I don't remember everything I need to do so I would like to reread a Guide on How to do it that is more uptoo date or still Good to use.. I...

From Vista Ultimate to Win 7 Ultimate

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Hello! I "had" Vista Ultimate 64 installed in my laptop, until I "replaced" it with Win 7 Ultimate 64 via a ISO copy. All good. However, windows Vista is still in the background and I believe ruling the OS. In system profile it is Win 7 SP1, in C:/ windows Vista. Disk Management therefore shows Vista. It was not a clean installation, it was an upgrade. Can I get win Vista out and...

Install Windows 7 on Dell XPS 8910 and Aurora Alienware

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Hello guys I desperatly need your help. I'm tryng to downgrade some workstation XPS 8910 and Aurora R5 from Windows 10 to Windows 7. Unfortunaly we can't use yet Windows 10 and i have a lot of problem installing both system. i tried to install with usb stick. The First problem i met was that after installation start i don't have the use of mouse and keybords so basically i was not able...

Attempt to Remove Win 7 Home, Clean Install Win 7 Pro Failed...Badly

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Hi, This is a homebuild desktop from 2012, and it has two hdds - one 80 and the other 1TB. The person who built it, placed Win Home Premium on the smaller hdd, and I wanted to remove it, and replace it with WIN 7 Pro, partitioning the larger hdd (I hope I'm making sense). Anyway, I got to diskpart using the install disk of Win 7 Pro to clean the smaller hdd, but when it finished and I went...

Booting from CD not possible / alternatives?

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Hello dear community, My laptop is in an awful state and I need to reinstall my OS. I am currently with uninstalled product key and 2 instances of the OS on two partitions of my hard drive. This was probably a mistake, but I won't get into details here. I want to reinstall and freshen up a bit the old machine, because I need to start using my audio (DAW) software with maximum...

Solved Wont boot up using IDE or AHCI, just blue screens

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Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, my friend is having a problem with their computer and I cant find anything anywhere about no being able to boot using IDE or AHCI. My friend updated her bios and windows needed to reboot, but windows wont reboot. I dont know anything about computers myself, but I looked the problem up and brought up switching things from IDE to AHCI and vice versa,...

UEFI Problem

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Hello, I want to do a clean installation of Windows 7 over a corrupt version of the same OS. I cannot do so booting from the setup disc as it insists on saving all the old rubbish. The Asus A68HM UEFI won't let me boot from the CD. Any attempt to alter the boot order fails. The UEFI tells me I haven't changed any setting when clearly I have. Boot menu won't work either. Apart from...

X:\Windows\System32 - What is it, Why is it, Is it Really Necessary?

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Hi, I'm stuck trying to do a clean install from Windows Home Premium to 7 Pro, and after numerous attempts to wipe my hdd, some things are clear: 1. There is no hdd wiped cleaner than mine 2. How is it possible to clean an hdd and still have X:\windows\system32 (which I've read happens to be a 'file'?) 3. If this file is no more than an 'enhanced' dos, can I not load something less...

Windows 7 & Centos 7 Dual Boot Issues - Grub2 BOOTMGR missing message

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Dear All, I was having windows 7 and centos 6.8 dual boot working fine. I upgraded to centos 7. All my problem starts from this point onwards. Some analysis which i have done till now: 1. Windows 7 has boot partition. I do not have it. (Accidental deleted or didn't had, i am not sure) 2. Centos boot partition of type xfs is there in the drive. 3. I already have 4 partitions on my...

Load Storage Driver Error keeps happening when installing windows 7

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Image: https://i.imgur.com/fjq6cZT.png This is the error i get when trying to install windows 7

Trying to install Windows 7 on 6th Gen Mobo

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I have this 6th Gen MB Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2H mobo and am trying to install Windows 7. As you are no doubt aware there are no USB drivers in W7 to allow it to work with this board but Gigabyte has this Windows image tool which allows you to have the correct drivers and an ISO image of the Windows 7 installation disc on a flash drive and install from it. I start the process but after 1.5 hrs I get...

No HDD Recovery area ?

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Hello, New to forum. Was trying to use the Toshiba Recovery Media Creater and got the error "No HDD recovery area, can not be launched". Toshiba Satellite C655D system, never did a restore to factory and have been running this for over 6 yrs now. Time to do one. I installed the "Recovery Media Creator" 2 days ago cause it wasn't on my system (probally removed it years ago when removing...

Computer freezes at client house but works seamless on my workbench!

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OK, I am having a small nightmare with this Dell computer of a client. It's an old PC (6 years) with a Pentium dual core CPU and 4 GB of RAM. His computer was freezing and getting BSOD and then started to say that his Windows wasn't genuine (it wasn't indeed). Also it has warned him several times about updating because it was a very earlier version with no SP. Then the client asked me to...

Error 80070002, sfc /scannow not working. Can't do repair install

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Hi y'all! I have tried to explore the SevenForums database for the similar problem but no success so far.. I cannot update my system. Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. The Windows update gives error 80070002. I have even tried to do the repair install, but the install program just gives me the error message: 'Setup can't continue. Restart the computer and restart Setup. When prompted, try...
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