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alg7_munif
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First of all, let me give some background. Before this I was using Vista and Win XP on two different harddrives. Instead of using the boot manager, I installed the OSes independently on each drive. That means, if I want to boot into XP or Vista, I just need to choose the correct drive as the first boot device in BIOS.
After a while, I upgraded my Vista harddrive with a Velociraptor. I just copied all of the contents from my Vista harddrive into the Velociraptor and it worked without a problem for a long time. This means that I have three harddrives with three OSes that I can boot into in my system and I just need to choose the correct first boot device in BIOS to boot into the the correct OS.
Here is the problem, yesterday I got a BSOD on my system. After restarting the computer, I cannot boot into my OS anymore. At first I thought that my drive has failed so I tried to boot from the other harddrives but I still can't boot into the OSes. I tried using a bootable CD (Vista install disc and Ubuntu live CD) and my system will boot into the CDs. My DVD-RW is an IDE drive so I thought that the SATA controller on my mobo is dead but I can still see my SATA harddrives in BIOS and using the repair function on the Vista install CD, it doesn't find any problem with my drives.
I took a SATA DVD-RW and tried to boot from a CD and my system can boot just fine from the SATA DVD drive. Then I took another SATA harddrive from another computer and try to boot into the OS and the system will boot just fine but I can't get into Windows because the drive is from another mainboard so the drivers won't work.
Now I know that my problem is with my three harddrives. I connect those drives into another computer and I still can't boot into those drives but inside Windows, I can see my three drives just fine and the files are still there. I just can't boot into those drive so I think that the problem is with the boot sector or MBR or something else, I don't know.
I just get a blank screen and I don't get any Windows logo. Pressing F8 did nothing to me. The wierd thing is, I can't boot into all my three drives. Can someone please help...
After a while, I upgraded my Vista harddrive with a Velociraptor. I just copied all of the contents from my Vista harddrive into the Velociraptor and it worked without a problem for a long time. This means that I have three harddrives with three OSes that I can boot into in my system and I just need to choose the correct first boot device in BIOS to boot into the the correct OS.
Here is the problem, yesterday I got a BSOD on my system. After restarting the computer, I cannot boot into my OS anymore. At first I thought that my drive has failed so I tried to boot from the other harddrives but I still can't boot into the OSes. I tried using a bootable CD (Vista install disc and Ubuntu live CD) and my system will boot into the CDs. My DVD-RW is an IDE drive so I thought that the SATA controller on my mobo is dead but I can still see my SATA harddrives in BIOS and using the repair function on the Vista install CD, it doesn't find any problem with my drives.
I took a SATA DVD-RW and tried to boot from a CD and my system can boot just fine from the SATA DVD drive. Then I took another SATA harddrive from another computer and try to boot into the OS and the system will boot just fine but I can't get into Windows because the drive is from another mainboard so the drivers won't work.
Now I know that my problem is with my three harddrives. I connect those drives into another computer and I still can't boot into those drives but inside Windows, I can see my three drives just fine and the files are still there. I just can't boot into those drive so I think that the problem is with the boot sector or MBR or something else, I don't know.
I just get a blank screen and I don't get any Windows logo. Pressing F8 did nothing to me. The wierd thing is, I can't boot into all my three drives. Can someone please help...