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A problem El_Mayo had when installing Windows 7 was that he needed his install disc present to boot windows 7. This is a problem that isn't local to him. I was surfing the mighty google and found a technet forum post about this particular issue.

I installed Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit edition today and it will not start without the instiallation DVD in the drive

If the DVD is not in the drive i get error message
"Boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter"

My system consists of an

Asus an8 sli deluxe motherboard
AMD X2 4200+
2gb ram
GeForce 6800 GS
Highpoint RocketRaid 2680 with 2 raid array attached
1st (2x300Gb in raid 0) OS installation
2nd (3x1.5Tb in raid 5) Data
1 DVD RW connected to the 1st IDE channel on motherboard as master
1 CD RW connected to the 2nd IDE channel on motherboard as master

I have set the bois of the rocket raid to boot form the disk Windows 7 is installed to
I have set the bois of the motherboard to boot from hard disk. then in the hard disk option it shows the raid card as the first priority

When i installed windows I used the Raid drivers that i downloaded from the highpoint website for my raid card and for windows 7 64 bit. it then found both raid arrays as hard disks. I did it as a clean install and windows created 2 partitions on the OS hard disk one as the main drive and a seperate 100mbs as some kind system disk

Windows works perfectly if i leave the DVD in. I dont need to touch anything when it says press any key to boot from DVD, just wait about 5 seconds and then windows loads from the hard disk.

I hope that is all the information that all you guys and girls need to help me out.

If you need anything else please let me know

Many thanks in advance

James
So the problem is that your c: drive or wherever your os is doesn't contain the mbr. you need to run bootsect.exe.
NOTE: the following assumes you are trying to boot off your c: drive - if it is another letter you want to boot off of change it accordingly.

run cmd as admin (click start>all programs>accessories then right click Command Prompt >run as adminsistrator)
type <path>bootsect /nt60 C:\ <enter> don't worry about the locking message

(where< path> is the location of your bootsect.exe file - if i recall it is in the installation disk /boot dir)

take that install disk out of your dvd drive finally!
reboot
done.
 

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A problem El_Mayo had when installing Windows 7 was that he needed his install disc present to boot windows 7. This is a problem that isn't local to him. I was surfing the mighty google and found a technet forum post about this particular issue.

I was messing around with installing 7 from a laptop sata drive I had laying around instead of using a flash drive or dvd. Only took a couple of minutes, but I couldn't boot without the drive connected. To bad I didn't see this post earlier.
 

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oh, that bug.


i never get that because i always follow one simple rule: unplug any and all sata/IDE devices except what you're installing windows from, and installing windows to.
 
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I installed Windows 7 Pro few days ago, and I noticed:

Good:
Faster booting time
Consume less memory at start up
Folding point is better

Bad:
Choppy Windows when both CPU and GPU clients are running, did not happen in Vista
Disconnect from internet frequently will make the network icon stucked at "network unplugged icon", and my IM clients will not connect, browsers still work though
Sometime, BSOD after 1 day folding, did not happen in Vista (I'm running the same setting for almost a year now)
Slow respond time after running for 1 day +, Vista ran smooth no matter how long the computer was on
When opening my h264 files using Media Classic took >1 second, while in Vista it's instant.

While reducing memory consuming is good, but it ran not as smooth as Vista.

EDIT: Did not notice any hard disk noises during start up, auto-defrag removed by default in Se7en?
 
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oh, that bug.


i never get that because i always follow one simple rule: unplug any and all sata/IDE devices except what you're installing windows from, and installing windows to.

I did. It still require I had the drive I installed from connected.
I installed Windows 7 Pro few days ago, and I noticed:

Good:
Faster booting time
Consume less memory at start up
Folding point is better

Bad:
Choppy Windows when both CPU and GPU clients are running, did not happen in Vista
Disconnect from internet frequently will make the network icon stucked at "network unplugged icon", and my IM clients will not connect, browsers still work though
Sometime, BSOD after 1 day folding, did not happen in Vista (I'm running the same setting for almost a year now)
Slow respond time after running for 1 day +, Vista ran smooth no matter how long the computer was on
When opening my h264 files using Media Classic took >1 second, while in Vista it's instant.

While reducing memory consuming is good, but it ran not as smooth as Vista.

EDIT: Did not notice any hard disk noises during start up, auto-defrag removed by default in Se7en?
Then your OC is not truly stable if it bsods in 7. I get none of those bad points you mention, except for the networking bug, but that quit after I updated my LAN drivers.
 

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If you own a piece of hardware that's not working as it should with windows 7 and, it can be updated via firmware then check the manufacture website for a firmware update. If there is see if it pertains to windows 7.
 

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Since its release over 7 weeks ago Win7 appears to have made a substantial impact on Steam's Survey. Here are the stats according to steam:
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Both XP and Vista are showing a decline while Windows 7 is showing increase in popularity.
source
 

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I have officially moved to Windows 7 on my current machine.

Warning, Warning

Windows 7 Home (Any Edition) is still missing a Key Component that is found in Professional Software- Group Policy Editor(gpedit.msc)- which is very powerful at making settings adjustments, disabling programs from being launched totally amongst other tweaks.


PS has anyone tweaked the windows 7 services?
 
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Well those Services configurations mucked around with my Antivirus at the Kernel level,

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=199356

NOD32 4.0.474.0

Not sure which batch caused that problem, but i restored everything to defaults, rebooted and that problem disappeared.
 

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Add me to that list! I'm now a happy Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit user and proud of it. I'm loving Windows 7 atm and can't wait to test it out some more. I never really had anything against Vista, but Windows 7 is a massive improvement. Cant wait to use it some more. ;)
 

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If you prefer to use EIST: Enhanced Intel SpeedStep from the bios make sure you have your power options set to "Balance" and not "High Performance". As that will cancel EIST. You can still tweak Balance to your liking if the pre-defined settings are not to your liking (IE: Sleep mode, etc).

To view this option type power option in the search box.
 
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At first my boot speed was just around the same but damn as ive used it, its gotten faster.
WIN7 is good i like it not much to say about it tho.

My GPU must be unstable it seems to bugger up in any 3D apps.

Runs fine on my old machine too, which i dont use for gaming. AMD 3400+ single core with 2gb of ram and its fine.
 
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You can add me to the list. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 FTW! :toast:

Haven't had any issues I couldn't fix so-far.
 
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I m using win7 since nearly a month or so, but never saw this thread! Runs fine, just had a couple of incidents where shortcut icons on the desktop mysteriously vanished but got that sorted out. So like countless many others said, ADD ME TO THAT LIST! mwahaha! ;)
 
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Can anybody link me how to fix 7 to remember folder views?

I would like them to show as tiles and arranged by types.... This was like the vista issue but in vista there is a certain option to untick, unlike in 7 they forgot to add it or it was removed. Thanks all.

This stupid power outage caused corruption to my previous user profile which I had done the tweaks to let it remember folder view settings unfortunately I couldn't google them back... And I have forgotten how I did the tweaks....

Thank you in advance and happy holidays! :toast:
 

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How much RAM are you folks using at login (startup items but no apps launched)? Im over a gig on Home Premium x64 with 45 processes. By the way if you didn't know command-shift-esc opens Task Manager.
 

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How much RAM are you folks using at login (startup items but no apps launched)? Im over a gig on Home Premium x64 with 45 processes. By the way if you didn't know command-shift-esc opens Task Manager.

like vista, the more ram you have, the more it uses.
 

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Ill be in the club pretty soon, ill have a full blown legal official Windows 7 home premium 64-bit comming in the mail to install and activate :D
 

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Ill be in the club pretty soon, ill have a full blown legal official Windows 7 home premium 64-bit comming in the mail to install and activate :D

Welcome to the club. :toast:

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 is working fine here except on some restarts, weather gadget disappears :banghead: while clock gadget remain visible. A simple log off --> log in do the work and everything run fine again.
 

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I'm the happy owner of Windows 7 Pro since two weeks now. I really like the OS, much more confortable to use than XP. Yet, I bought the Pro version to have the virtual XP mode available. I haven't found how that works. Could anyone tell me how to launch a virtual Windows XP session within Windows 7 ? Is that even possible? I know you can do it with the Virtual PC program, but it should be built in Windows 7, yet I can't seem to find it.

EDIT: OK I think I found what I was looking for...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
 
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System Name HTPC||Lenovo IBM ThinkPad
Processor AMD Phenom II x4 965 stock 3.4GHz||Intel C2D T9300 @ 2.5GHz
Motherboard Zotac 890GX-ITX WiFi||Lenovo 8918CTO
Cooling Stock 3x 120's||Stock stuff
Memory 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 6-6-6-15||3GB DDR2
Video Card(s) Asus 3870x2||nVidia Quadro NVS 140M
Storage 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 1x 2TB WD EARX ||Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM
Display(s) Samsung T260HD||
Case SilverStone Grandia GD05||
Audio Device(s) on-board||on-board
Power Supply Cooler Master 450W||6-cell
Software Windows 7 Pro x64||Windows 7 Pro x64/Linux Mint x64
Only problem I have atm is my Bluetooth not working.
And still can't find a fix for it
 
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System Name ROG MACHINE
Processor Ryzen 9 5950x
Motherboard Crosshair viii Hero
Cooling NZXT Kraken Z 73 my corsair H115i kicked the bucket corsair sucks lol
Memory g-skill rgb 64gb 4x16gb ddr4 3200mgz
Video Card(s) MSI Ventus 3x oc 3080
Storage Sabren rocket gen 4 2tb m.2/ samsung 960 evo 1tb m.2/ 3x toshiba 3tb hdd , 10tb seagate, 16tb seagat
Display(s) Acer 4k monitor/ Samsung C34J79x 34 inch curved monitor
Case thermal take view 71 rgb
Audio Device(s) creative ae-5 sound card
Power Supply corsair AX 1200i 1200 watt psu
Mouse ROG CHAKRAM
Keyboard corsair k95
Software windows 11 pro 64bit
win 7 is working great for me accept i thing i cant get it to go to sleep.
 
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