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| DUAL BOOTING PROBLEM NEED HELP! COMPUTER AT STAKE! |
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| Posted on 2010-05-15 06:55:30 PM |
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I'm sorry to type in all caps, but my very computer is at stake here.
Okay, so I had Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on my laptop and today decided to try to set up a dual boot with Fedora (a Red Hat distro) as a secondary OS. I created a 5 GB partition on my main hard drive and installed it to there. Everything went fine... except for the fact that Windows won't boot up anymore. The files on the original partition with Windows is still there, it just won't boot.
So, how would I solve this problem? I'm pirating the install disk for Windows 7 Home Premium (I had mine preinstalled) as I speak so I can go into the command prompt and unhide the disk drive (which might be the problem). However, I'm not sure if it will work.
Does anyone have any advice for me at the moment?
Thank you very much!
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| Last edited on 2010-05-15 10:49:22 PM by TheGag96. |
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| Posted on 2010-05-16 01:39:37 AM |
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hey did you shrink the partition and did you know about a window's website?:
Originally posted by Microsoft Windows troubleshootingMORE INFORMATION
1. -Start the computer from an MS-DOS floppy disk that contains the Sys.com file. Sys the boot drive to MS-DOS by typing the following command at a command prompt:
a:\>sys c:
After you type this command, you receive a system transferred message when the procedure is finished.
NOTE: This command disables the Windows boot loader so that the computer boots MS-DOS when booting from the computer's hard disk. You must repair the Windows boot loader after you use the following steps.
2. -Reboot the computer from the computer's hard disk to a command prompt and install MS-DOS on the computer if it is not already installed.
3. -After you completely install MS-DOS and reboot, restart your computer by using the Windows Setup disks. During Setup, select R to repair Windows.
NOTE: You need to repair only the Windows boot sector. Do not choose to inspect the registry files, the Windows system files, or the Windows boot environment during this procedure.
4. -After you repair the Windows boot sector, you need to manually edit the Boot.ini file to include an option to boot to MS-DOS. The Boot.ini file is a read-only, hidden, system file that is located in the root folder of the boot drive. Add the following line to the Boot.ini file under the operating systems section:
c:\="Microsoft DOS".
The next time that you reboot the computer, you have an option to choose MS-DOS on the Windows Start menu.
You can use the procedure in this article to enable dual booting between Windows NT and Windows 95. To dual boot Windows 95, boot the computer to MS-DOS and install Windows 95. A Windows 95 installation is Windows NT-aware and does not overwrite NT boot loader information when you use this procedure.
this should work with it as well because all Microsoft Windows based program run from the command prompt and all of these have been the same (except the look of it) throughout the years Windows has been in business.
If you need more information go to http://support.microsoft.com/ for more help on the subject or continue to PM some of the staff around the site. Many of them will be willing to help or guild you in the right direction.
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| Posted on 2010-05-16 09:35:00 AM |
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If you're in Fedora, you can try and make the partition bootable.
Fedora is not for noobs. If you want an Red Hat based noob distro, I recommend openSUSE.
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| Posted on 2010-05-16 12:23:48 PM |
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Originally posted by CommieYoshiIf you're in Fedora, you can try and make the partition bootable.
Fedora is not for noobs. If you want an Red Hat based noob distro, I recommend openSUSE.
How? Could you help me please? Fedora can be cool at some times, but I have Steam, my hacks, everything... This means a lot to me!
BTW, did I mention Fedora sucks? It crashes all the time! I am never dual booting again... Until I get an external hard drive.
Did I also mention that I can view the Windows Partition in Fedora and use it? Is that a big problem? Does it mean that Windows is totally wiped out?
Also, I can't even install Wine because it won't let me type in the password to go to the root in Terminal.  ((
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| Last edited on 2010-05-16 02:37:21 PM by TheGag96. |
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| Posted on 2010-05-17 04:59:31 AM |
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It does in terminal: it's just hidden. The password is being typed.
Don't worry about Steam either, it will be coming to Linux sans Wine.
Windows is not wiped out either, it's just that it is not bootable.
If you want, you could try and see if Windoze returns.
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