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System Name | Mr. DeAD |
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Processor | AMD FX-8350 Black Edition |
Motherboard | ASUS Crosshair V Formula |
Cooling | Aero Cool casefans and Zalman CPU Cooler |
Memory | 8gb G.Skill Sniper 2133 |
Video Card(s) | MSI R9-270x |
Storage | 1tb Western Digital blue, 1tb Toshiba |
Display(s) | Dell 24' |
Case | Apevia X-Sniper 2 black and red |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard Realtek |
Power Supply | OCZ ModXTreme 600w Modular PSU |
Software | Windows 7 Ultimate |
I don't know what the problem is, but I tried to install a dual boot with Windows 7 and XP (7 as the main OS of course) to play some old games without using emulators. So, I go ahead and begin the XP installation and at the restart it blue screens and can't finish it. Don't remember the exact error message, but from that point on I'm getting the error "Can't find operating system. Please remove anything without an operating system and try again...'' something very closely along those lines.
I set the boot order to the cd-rom first on the list, and just tried to boot in Windows 7 again or at least reinstall it since I wasn't losing anything anyway. Nothing. Same error. Tried with a flash drive. Changed boot order again. No dice.
So from there, after a few headaches and trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong, I decide to take an HDD from a laptop I had lying around which actually has Windows 7 and 8 dual booted on it, and try to format the HDD I originally had in the PC. I successfully formatted it through Windows 8. So from there I tried to reinstall Win7 on it from the DVD and remove second HDD and get back to normal. Then the same error comes up. Can't find OS...
I eventually got it to install, but it wouldn't boot from the HDD without the secondary. It showed all the Windows 7 files on the original HDD i wanted to replace it on but would not boot into it. It only showed up on the boot sequence of the second HDD I used.
From here I decided i want to go with the Linux distro Zorin os 9 after reading about it, being so irritated with Windows and looking to just move on if possible. Still can't load from DVD or Flash. Even tried to reinstall Ubuntu with the 'Help me boot from cd' option. An error has occured. Of course..
I'm all out of ideas here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully someone here can help me solve this. It's probably something very stupid that im just forgetting to do. This isn't the first time I've done a dual boot or a clean os install. Not even close. I always get great advice here and am looking forward to hearing back soon!
Thank you all in advance
PS: If you can look at my system specs it should tell you everything you need to know as far as hardware goes
I set the boot order to the cd-rom first on the list, and just tried to boot in Windows 7 again or at least reinstall it since I wasn't losing anything anyway. Nothing. Same error. Tried with a flash drive. Changed boot order again. No dice.
So from there, after a few headaches and trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong, I decide to take an HDD from a laptop I had lying around which actually has Windows 7 and 8 dual booted on it, and try to format the HDD I originally had in the PC. I successfully formatted it through Windows 8. So from there I tried to reinstall Win7 on it from the DVD and remove second HDD and get back to normal. Then the same error comes up. Can't find OS...
I eventually got it to install, but it wouldn't boot from the HDD without the secondary. It showed all the Windows 7 files on the original HDD i wanted to replace it on but would not boot into it. It only showed up on the boot sequence of the second HDD I used.
From here I decided i want to go with the Linux distro Zorin os 9 after reading about it, being so irritated with Windows and looking to just move on if possible. Still can't load from DVD or Flash. Even tried to reinstall Ubuntu with the 'Help me boot from cd' option. An error has occured. Of course..
I'm all out of ideas here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully someone here can help me solve this. It's probably something very stupid that im just forgetting to do. This isn't the first time I've done a dual boot or a clean os install. Not even close. I always get great advice here and am looking forward to hearing back soon!
Thank you all in advance
PS: If you can look at my system specs it should tell you everything you need to know as far as hardware goes
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