Recent content by pctech265

Ok-must be because the newer systems know how to work with the older systems(backwards compatible) but the old systems don't know how to interact with the newer systems

Why is this though-just seems strange to me

Ok fine I hold my hands up-i caused the problem but it was XP installation that created the problem-maybe xp was built to take over boot,I don't know

No I used them commands after the boot loader was corrupted-why did win xp do this in the first place???

Oh well-tried my luck but it is all back to normal now,only lost a few files and pics--Why did windows xp actually mess around with the boot loader in the first place???-just curious

Because it worked on another laptop but that was probably because it was a dell disc and a dell laptop-i used jelly bean key finder but the product key didn't work on the intel laptop

No I didn't have the product key for xp so I have just gave up with it and installed vista and 8 in just over 2 hours

I gave up in the end-i didn't know what to do but I have reinstalled it all now

what does this picture show????Please say it has seen my lost partitions and if so how do i get them back when the scan is finished

I just created a new partition using easeus partition manager sized at about 12gb. I then downloaded the release preview iso and the windows 7 usb download tool. Used the tool to extract the iso to the usb. Plugged the usb in on boot and it installed very easily

no this is what happened over about a month. I installed vista on my machine and it was ok. i then installed windows 8 on a separate partition and it was ok. I used easeus partition manager to do this. I then created a 600mb and 1gb logical drives for program setup files storage. I then created...

I see now-i have tried the fixmbr command and then tried a win xp install but it appears that the fixmbr has destroyed my partition tables-windows vista also shows this and now I have been left with no data left and a blank hdd----Windows XP,what a useless operating system

Ok-i will do it when I am not on a computer which probably be tomorrow-i will post back if successful

If I remove the XP drive-surely it would go back to booting from the original dual-boot system drive

I might try to get windows 8 setup usb to start automatic repair then if I can do that I should be able to finish the job from win8