[ale] help, windows 7 boot error

[Michael Trausch]

There aren't many choices here. The best option would normally be to reinstall, but you can't. Or can you?

Is this a retail version of Windows? If so install it under KVM, and be done with it. No extra drivers are required, and a single qcow2 file can contain multiple snapshots which you can roll back to at any time. 

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> On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> the problem with that method is, you need to be able to boot into
> windows... and...I....can't. setting up Windows 10 Preview in VMware as
> we speak.. Fedora 21.. finally got all the headers & kernel-devel
> installed...
> 
>> A regular file copy does not get everything needed to boot the system,
>> so that will not work.  The best way to do this is to create an image
>> backup on an external drive, then boot from the Windows 7 DVD and
>> restore the image.  Here is an explanation of how to do the backup:
>> 
>> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/
>> That article also explains how to perform the restore from the DVD
>> (System Image Recovery).
>> 
>> Once that's done, you will have the extra space available on the new
>> drive, which you can either expand the current Windows partition, make
>> a new one, or use it for another purpose (such as Linux).  I don't
>> think you should need a driver for the hard drive -- it's probably
>> just confused because of how you performed the file copy.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if I would use Windows 10 preview as your everyday
>> system, since Microsoft is collecting metrics on what people are
>> doing, so there could be some privacy issues there (that's the nature
>> of the Insider program).
>> 
>> 
>> ❧ Brian Mathis
>> @orev
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Paul Cartwright
>> <pbcartwright at gmail.com <mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    ok, I know, this is a linux group... but I don't know where else
>>    to turn.
>>    My desktop original HD1 stopped booting, so I got a new 3TB drive.
>>    I can
>>    still get to the old drive using my new fantastic IED-SATA $10 gizmo..
>>    so I partitioned my "NEW" HD1 so windows is still on sda3 like it was
>>    before, and I copied all the  old files into it. When I boot I am
>>    getting the File: \Boot\BCD error attempting to read Boot
>>    configuration.  on sda3 there is a \Boot\BCD.
>>    When I run my Windows 7 rescue CD it asks for the driver CD which... I
>>    can't find. I have tried downloading all the device driver files from
>>    Dell, but nothing seems to work. It doesn't like the R*.exe files and
>>    every folder that has the drivers in them, I have clicked on every
>>    file
>>    and it still tells me error.. What I DON'T have is the driver for the
>>    ST3000DM001 3TB HD.. and the original was a 2TB HD..
>>    when I boot the rescue CD it doesn't show my HD, and wants
>>    drivers. If I
>>    click NEXT anyway, then command prompt, I can run :
>>    bootrec /rebuildbcd . It comes back with a "found c:\Windows" use
>>    Y/N/A.. I click Y and.... errors out.
>> 
>>    I'm tempted to just install Windows 10 preview. Since I have
>>    Windows 7,
>>    it will be a free upgrade. Question is, can you do a dual-boot with
>>    Windows 10?? anyone done that??
>> 
>> 
>>    --
>>    Paul Cartwright
>>    Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
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> Paul Cartwright
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