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From: topgooner71 on 24 Apr 2010 18:04 Hi all, hope someone here can help. I have a dell vostro laptop running windows 7. Got myself a new 500Gb hard drive and set about installing it this weekend. Backed everything up. Flipped the laptop, took the drive out, put the new one in. All good so far.. Turn the machine on, and it keep coming up with "bootmger is missing" ctl/alt/delete to restart. Ok, so I restarted it, and used the cd drive to boot the machine. (windows 7 disc).. gets part of the way and then hangs. Tried it a few times today with no luck. so now I am back with the original hd in the machine and asking for help... anyoe out there able to assist please? thanks. Charlie.
From: Mike Easter on 24 Apr 2010 18:59 topgooner71 wrote: > Ok, so I restarted it, and used the cd drive to boot the machine. > (windows 7 disc).. gets part of the way and then hangs. This is a completely inadequate explanation of the problem. Here^1 are 50+ screenshots of installing Win7 on a new hdd, from preinstall to partition and format to install. How far are you getting and what does 'hang' mean in this context? The .jpg screenshots have names like indexfnn.jpg where nn is a number. ^1 http://www.windowsreinstall.com/win7ultimate/windows7installguides/indexfullpage.htm Microsoft's Windows 7 Ultimate Fresh/clean Install Guide step by step -- Mike Easter
From: Conor on 25 Apr 2010 04:36 On 24/04/2010 23:04, topgooner71 wrote: > Hi all, hope someone here can help. > I have a dell vostro laptop running windows 7. > > Got myself a new 500Gb hard drive and set about installing it this > weekend. > > Backed everything up. Flipped the laptop, took the drive out, put the > new one in. > > All good so far.. > Turn the machine on, and it keep coming up with "bootmger is missing" > ctl/alt/delete to restart. > Of course it does, there's nothing on the new hard drive. > Ok, so I restarted it, and used the cd drive to boot the machine. > (windows 7 disc).. gets part of the way and then hangs. > It hasn't. It just looks like it has. It can take a good 20 minutes before it continues to the next step. > Tried it a few times today with no luck. so now I am back with the > original hd in the machine and asking for help... > anyoe out there able to assist please? > thanks. Yes. See above. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 25 Apr 2010 04:39 > Got myself a new 500Gb hard drive and set about installing it this > weekend. > Backed everything up. Flipped the laptop, took the drive out, put the > new one in. > Turn the machine on, and it keep coming up with "bootmger is missing" > ctl/alt/delete to restart. You can't use drag-and-drop to copy the MBR & Window$ system files from the old disk to the new one. You need something like Norton Ghost or Linux's dd to do it. I suggest you re-install Window$ on the new hard disk, then copy data from the old disk into the new one via a USB drive enclosure or related tools. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33.2 ^ ^ 16:38:01 up 21 days 8:30 2 users load average: 1.05 1.05 1.01 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Flasherly on 25 Apr 2010 09:29
On Apr 24, 6:04 pm, topgooner71 <charli...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, hope someone here can help. > I have a dell vostro laptop running windows 7. > > Got myself a new 500Gb hard drive and set about installing it this > weekend. > > Backed everything up. Flipped the laptop, took the drive out, put the > new one in. > > All good so far.. > Turn the machine on, and it keep coming up with "bootmger is missing" > ctl/alt/delete to restart. > > Ok, so I restarted it, and used the cd drive to boot the machine. > (windows 7 disc).. gets part of the way and then hangs. > > Tried it a few times today with no luck. so now I am back with the > original hd in the machine and asking for help... > anyoe out there able to assist please? > thanks. > > Charlie. Double check the BIOS for the HD being recognized and might want to format the drive first. Laptops aren't my favorite thing to "rebuild" -- unlike a simple download of updated drivers and utilities for a motherboard, laps may involve something of an individual "personality" individual manufacturers more or less provide to people presumably capable of researching them before shelling down hard-earned money for a laptop. May also want to check their site for any literature about installing drives, if any hardwired limits are coded into its firmware. If the drive that came out from a time they built your lap, say is an 80 or 120G, hopefully you'll be able to reteach it, in case it doesn't speak 500G-ese. Make one partition on that new 500G drive, the same size as the old, nothing more, and try sticking it in for giggles. |