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    How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
    « on: October 11, 2009, 05:28:56 PM »
    How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk.
    Can anyone help me do this, I have two harddrives and neither are showing up, I need to repair my MBR because I'm getting the error BOOT DISK FAILURE at startup.
    If anyone has any ideas on how I can get them to show up, help would be greatly obliged.
    Thanks a lot!

    - John

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    Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
    « Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 01:18:42 AM »
    Do the hard drives show up in BIOS?
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      Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
      « Reply #2 on: October 12, 2009, 06:50:51 AM »
      Yes they show up under the Hard disk drive boot in bios.
      i have 2 one of which is a few weeks old
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      Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
      « Reply #3 on: October 12, 2009, 06:54:12 AM »
      How were these Win 7 DVD's created ? ?
      Is it the BETA or the RC ? ?
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        Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
        « Reply #4 on: October 12, 2009, 06:56:43 AM »
        Its the OEM version burned with power iso.
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        Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
        « Reply #5 on: October 12, 2009, 07:07:43 AM »
        There is no OEM version out yet...unless you know someone that works for Microsoft...
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          Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
          « Reply #6 on: October 12, 2009, 07:11:40 AM »
          Not out legally...
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          Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
          « Reply #7 on: October 12, 2009, 07:15:04 AM »
          Then you'll need to find someone with a legit copy of the RC .iso...otherwise you're stuck.
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            Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
            « Reply #8 on: October 12, 2009, 07:20:51 AM »
            i have a copy of the legit copy of the rc also
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            Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
            « Reply #9 on: October 12, 2009, 07:37:36 AM »
            Then try burning a new DVD using PowerISO again.
            Something's wrong.

            It should be bootable.
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              Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
              « Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 07:49:30 AM »
              ok on my old drive i just installed windows xp now i should beable to fix the mbr, but will it fix it for both hard drives? or just my old one and not the new hard drive with windows 7 on it
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                Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
                « Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 07:51:00 AM »
                Quote from: patio on October 12, 2009, 07:37:36 AM
                Then try burning a new DVD using PowerISO again.
                Something's wrong.

                It should be bootable.

                the problems not the bootablility the problem is when i boot the hard drive i need to fix will not showup under repair
                neither of them showup
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                Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
                « Reply #12 on: October 12, 2009, 07:58:20 AM »
                No.
                The XP MBR fix will do nothing for the Win7 drive.
                Provide more details on these drives...how you initially set them up and what led to the 7 drive being un-bootable...
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                  Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
                  « Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 08:13:23 AM »
                  Ok, originally all i had was one drive a western digital caviar green, this had windows 7 beta on it which was running fine, I was experimenting with some games and needed to dual boot with xp, this also worked fine. I needed more space so I bought a new samsung spinpoint (both hard drives are 1 TB) hard drive, since i had the old win 7 and xp dual booted i had to add the new windows 7 to my dual boot menu, when i originally dual booted and the second time, i used Easy BCD <http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1>
                  Since i was done with the old windows 7 i needed to erase the old hard drive.
                  I used KillDisk to erase it, everything went fine to my knowledge and now I believe I cannot boot because all the "Boot information" was on my old hard drive which i erased.
                  A few people have been helping me in the chat, but we haven't had much success.
                  I currently have both hard drives plugged in win 7 (unbootable) installed on the new one and win xp is installed on the old hard drive.
                  I hope this helps.

                  Thanks for your help!

                  - John
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                    Re: How to get my OS to showup in system repair on my windows 7 boot disk
                    « Reply #14 on: October 12, 2009, 10:02:15 AM »
                    I just reformatted thanks for all the help. I got everything off my hard drive i needed.
                    Thanks

                    - John
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