for your interest. problem that cropped up with win7 (solved)

[Mikee]

Greeting to you all on a cold rainy winters morning at 0748 hrs here.

last night on my newest computer Amd quad core.
win7 and winXP 64 are installed on it.

I have several USB IDE cases that I use for storage.
One I connected to the dual boot computer and when starting up it didn't get to the boot ini screen.
just a black screen with cursor blinking in top left corner.
disconnected the USB IDE drive and all started OK.
I went into Win7 then plugged in the USB IDE drive.
computer wasn't a happy chappy.

Went to win explorer and the USB IDE drive showed up with the largest NTFS partition (120gigs) with no name and when clicking on it a message can up that cannot read needs to be formated.
The other partition (40gigs) which is FAT32 was fine. it needs to be Fat32 to use with my Korg Kronos.

Restarted computer in WinXP64 and it was able to read the "faulty" NTFS 120 gig partition OK.
I decided to run Checkdisc from "MiniTool Partition Wizard" freeware. Far superior with more options and faster than Norton "partition Magic"
I think Win checkdisc is crap. tells me nothing.

the "MiniTool PartitionWizard" puts out a log file as it goes with all the file details and what it has doing. In my case 186,000 files and 890,00 indexes.

It found a lot of errors and fixed,deleted or other things which are beyond me.

The outcome was that the computer now starts with the USB IDE connected and Win7 now can read the
'faulty" partition without any problems.

So I am now treating Win7 with a lot of caution.

You can get "MiniTool PartitionWizard" at:-

Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.


Regards from,
Mike.

P.S. I would appreciate any comments/info regarding this if you feel so inclined, thanks.

 

[Digerati]

So I am now treating Win7 with a lot of caution.
P.S. I would appreciate any comments/info regarding this if you feel so inclined, thanks.

I think dual-boot systems inherently have problems and you just fell into one. It really has nothing to do with W7 as it is vastly superior to XP and all aspects and that you should treat all operating systems with caution.