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| The Gengo | May 16 2012, 06:53 PM Post #21 |
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Also, can you tell me what VERSION of Windows 7 she has? Is it Windows 7 Starter by chance? Another, link (originated by a ASUS netbook owner): http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/181224-asus-netbook-bootmgr-missing.html |
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| Braythor | May 16 2012, 07:03 PM Post #22 |
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Er... "yes". I think so...but it was late, and I'd been staring at a computer all day at work. She's taken it to someone that knows what they're doing now anyway, but thanks! |
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| The Gengo | May 16 2012, 07:13 PM Post #23 |
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| JohnMcL7 | May 20 2012, 04:58 PM Post #24 |
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Sorry not been around for a bit particularly when some of you have been kind enough to recommend my tech skills - much appreciated! The tool above is the exact one I'd recommend as it's very handy compared to the previous manual method and so far I've had no problems with it for both Windows 7 and Windows Home Server 2011. Technically for machines without optical drives (at least those made in the last few years), you can boot from an OS CD in a USB optical drive but I find the results this way unpredictable, one netbook I was trying to rebuild refused to boot from a Lenovo optical drive (one that came with a Lenovo laptop that lacked an onboard one) and a few others but worked absolutely fine from the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive (main reason I use it now strangely). I also find using optical drive emulators (where you have the isos on a USB hard drive and choose an iso which then appears to the system as a USB optical drive with the physical media of the iso mounted) a bit unreliable, I was baffled why I couldn't get one of my own machines to build from this drive as it kept asking me for the sata drivers which I'd assumed were for the hard drive (X79 chipset, not well supported by default it seems). I tried all manner of different drivers which seemed to be picked up properly but didn't work until I twigged the driver it was looking for was for the very drive it was actually loading off?! Didn't make any sense but used a USB stick built using the tool above and it worked flawlessly first time and pretty quick as well. So the short of it this tool gets a big thumbs up from me ![]() On a slightly different note, anyone reading this and has a prebuilt desktop or laptop please make sure you have burnt your recovery disks. It's standard for machines to come without optical media for the operating system (cheaper licensing apparently) so if the hard drive fails which is the most common fault I have to fix on laptops then it can be a pain in the neck if you don't know someone with the physical media. Just be careful with data as some of these recovery tools will wipe the drive completely to put a fresh install back on, caddies are cheap so usually the easiest way to recover data is to get the hard drive out if it's a standard size then plug it in via USB to another PC. John |
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