Many people are used to asking for help or contacting after-sales maintenance when they are experiencing computer problems. However, if you learn a lot, I believe that many problems can be solved easily, and you don't need to waste too much time and money. Today, share Windows2008 and Windows7. Detailed fault when the situation to share problems and solutions found in small series, we hope to help a bit with the draw.
in a multi-boot mode to begin the installation
present, my Notebook computers are mainly used for daily work such as running product displays for customers, and occasionally running taught courses. In an external Serial ATA hard drive, I have installed Windows Server 2008 with multiple boot modes.
I believe, during the installation Windows7RTM in, connect an external drive, it will detect the installation will need to configure multiple startup mode, and hope that it can be configured automatically, so, I did not have to Excessive intervention in the entire process.
to do so has led to very interesting results are. During the entire installation process, there was no problem; after reinstalling Office2007 and Live online services, I installed several software and configured some devices to prepare to import old data.
because I'll start with the backup data is reloaded operation, and did not immediately find the problem. I didn't find the boot device until I quit the installation CD.
Worse, I found that even unplug the external drive using a boot disk can not boot the system.
So, I first started using CD mode, and use the F8 key. Choose to fix the system and boot menu. But the system did not find any problems, I chose to use the installation CD for processing, but the results are the same. I had to go into command line mode and use BCDEDIT to process it to find out the actual partition used by boot mode.
In order to obtain this information, must be run under the authority of the system administrator from the command line, BCEDIT show where the problem
results show boot manager selection is an external Serial ATA hard drive The D drive is the boot disk.
To change this setting, I enter: bcdedit /setdevice "partition = C:"
I also found the C drive and D drive just use the same boot also includes a file manager . This is the most interesting place I have found, and it seems that there is no way to solve this problem.
So, I enter the following command to select the backup file using the boot manager: bcdedit /exportc: filename
Next, I use the installation CD to restart the computer, and choose to repair the system. And delete the bootmgr.efi file on the internal drive of the notebook and the external Serial ATA hard drive through the command line mode.
Finally, I turn off the system and disconnect the external Serial ATA hard disk. Re-use the installation CD to boot the system. Selecting the repair system, when the installation wizard performs an automatic scan for the Windows installation, it immediately found the problem and gave the option to fix it. I chose to agree and restart my computer without an external Serial ATA hard drive and installation CD.
has finally succeeded!
now, in the boot menu, I can choose Windows7 (recovery) and WindowsServer2008 (recovery) of both systems.
When Windows7 start to work, I chose to shut down the system and connect an external Serial ATA hard disk. When I restarted, I chose to install Windows Server 2008, so it worked very well.