b-man Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 (edited) when i created my hdd partitions i made an extra one for windows 750gb for xp, 50gb for win 7 and then the rest (on a 500gb drive)and also another 500gb drive (both sata)i have xp sp3 32 bit installed and running for ages everything working finei then installed windows 7 64 bit onto the free partition and it worked when it reset itself into win 7 but once it had finished installing everything and i rebooted it, it wouldnt display the boot menu and just booted into xp so i put win 7 disc in and went to install it again and when the option came up to install to partition (i noticed my xp partiton was listed as system but also my 2nd drive was listed as a (system) drive yet it is only used for storage??)so i continued on and deleted the win 7 partition re created it then formatted and got an error halfway through copying filesi then disconnected my 2nd drive and loaded win 7it come to the install to partition so i deleted the win7 partition and recreated then formatted it and installed itnow when it boots up it works exactly how its meant to but as soon as i connect my other hard drive back in it wont even booti think it has something to do with what i noticed earlier as the 2nd hdd being a system drivei have plugged it into an external usb drive loaded it in win xp disc manager and its just listed as healthy not systemthe 2nd drive still works fine when plugged into the usb enclosure so im thing theres a boot menu or soemthing on that drive how do i delete it?any ideas?? Edited August 15, 2010 by b-man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefZeke Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Put all of your drives in and connect them as you want them. Boot into XP and check the other drives/partitions and make sure there are no remnants of Win7 anywhere - format that drive so that does not have to be done by the Win7 installer. Label the drives/paritions as, for example: (C:)XP Pro; (D:)Win7, etc - just to provide a reference.Boot from the Win7 DVD and select the appropriate drive/partition for installation and try again. Does the install routine 'see' the drives ar you labelled them? Does the installation finish? Do you now have a boot menu? Google EasyBCD and install it in XP and Win7 and use it to verify/change the boot menu. (Assuming one is there.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-man Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 i couldnt plug all drives in cos then i couldnt bootthats what i had started with and its when it didnt worki deleted some boot files from that other drive and now all works sweet dunno how or why they got on there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr001 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 who have deleted my comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Were those comments actually pertinant to the thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 who have deleted my comments?I took your posts out and made a new topic with them, so not to confuse your specific issues with the OPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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