[ale] help, windows 7 boot error

[Brian Mathis]

Sometimes I forget to mention these kinds of things since they are so
ingrained to me.  Unplug any drive you don't want the system to touch.
Don't put the case/cover back on until you have fully confirmed that
everything is working the way you need it.  Don't touch any electronics in
the case without first touching some metal part of the case.  As you remove
screws, lay them out in a pattern on a piece of paper that mirrors their
place on the case.  Run a memtest overnight and CPU burn for at least an
hour for any new system.  When running Windows, don't try to make it act
like *nix -- accept its ways and you will have much less pain.


❧ Brian Mathis
@orev


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pull the plug from the drive 1 before proceeding. That way you are
> certain that ONLY drive 0 will get redone.
>
> On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 11:28 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On 01/28/2015 11:09 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> > > Restoring from the vendor's recovery stick on the old drive will most
> > > likely wipe out all of your data and programs -- it is typically a
> > > complete wipe and reinstall of the system.  At this point since you
> > > cannot boot the original drive, you have the following options:
> > >     - Use the recovery stick to restore to the new drive, then rebuild
> > > your Linux install from scratch
> > >     - Manually install Windows on your new drive, manually copy data
> > > over from the old drive, then rebuild your Linux install from scratch
> > >
> > > You just need to bite the bullet and rebuild from scratch.  It sounds
> > > like too many changes have been made to be able to understand what
> > > state the drives/partitions are in, at least without physically
> > > sitting down at the system and debugging.  Whatever you do, make sure
> > > to only do it on the new drive and leave the old one alone, except for
> > > copying data off of it.
> > my only concern with restoring from the recovery USB stick is... I now
> > have a 3TB drive 0, and a 2 TB drive 1. I don't want the install to
> > touch drive 1, that has ALL my backups & Linux partitions. As long as
> > the recovery just formats drive 0 and installs windows on it, I will be
> > happy:)
> > I don't care about ALL the programs on it, all I really need is Windows
> > 7, so I can install my Turbotax for 2014.. and my ancient Hallmark card
> > studio 2009..
> > >
> > >
> > > > I mounted the Recovery partition and I am copying all the files over
> > > to my HD.. maybe I can make a bootable CD with that, & restore windows
> > > to the new drive..
> > >
> > > No, you cannot do that.  This is what got you into the situation to
> > > begin with.  A plain copy of files to a new drive does not make it
> > > bootable -- you must either image it or do something else to install a
> > > boot sector, and that kind of thing is pretty undocumented for vendor
> > > recovery partitions.
> > yeah, I didn't think that would be an option, wish list maybe:)
> > >
> > >
> > > ❧ Brian Mathis
> > > @orev
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Paul Cartwright
> > > <pbcartwright at gmail.com <mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On 01/27/2015 09:31 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > >     > So your original partitions are not on place. Check if you have
> the
> > >     > windows boot partition which is about 100 MB FAT and the windows
> > >     > factory install which should be few gigabytes.
> > >     I know, my Windows recovery USB stick just arrived... and right
> before
> > >     it did, I found this:
> > >
> > >
> http://superuser.com/questions/193166/reinstall-windows-7-from-recovery-partition-on-a-dell-studio-1555-laptop
> > >
> > >     so now I have my recovery USB stick.. do I trash that drive &
> > >     restore...
> > >     then all I need to do is restore MBR..
> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
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