Well I don't know if this will help you but it fixed my problem
My motherboard works with dual channel memory, so I needed to have my ram in slots 1 and 3.
When I first put my ram in, they were in slots 3 and 4.
So after a while my PC stopped booting past the windows logo
When I changed the slots to 1 and 3 it worked fine.
[QUOTE=venn177;26459915]The problem being I have about 400gb of files I need backed up, and no way to back them up.[/QUOTE]
Just go into the Windows 7 install guide, and then choose to install it on the HDD, without formatting it or anything. This will keep old files in C:\Windows.old folder.
[QUOTE=venn177;26460185]Forgive me if I'm wrong, but is it not true that you cannot combine partitions without formatting a whole HDD? So in order to do what you're implying and have it work, I would need to create two new partitions: A linux Partition, probably about 5gb, and a second Windows 7 partition, say 550GB.
So then I move everything from the first Windows 7 partition to the second, would I then be able to add those partitions back to the now-working Windows 7 partition? I was under the impression that that wasn't possible.[/QUOTE]
GParted and most non-Windows partition manager programs can do this quite easily.
Did i win?
Installed Ubuntu on a flash drive. Tried to boot from it.
Ubuntu is now stuck at the bootup screen.
Maybe it's a hardware issue then?
What hardware issue would be allowing me to do everything but boot an OS?
You don't need to scan for memory errors it is fix ughhh hold on I'll snapshot it
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click start up repair, basically your old drivers are trying to address the new motherboard, causing a crash, you might want to go to the old uninstall them and then switch it. Return windows to original should just recopy the install.wim over and make the windows part new and keep the files inplace
Tried that. It says it won't fix it.
[QUOTE={ABK}AbbySciuto;26466918]GParted and most non-Windows partition manager programs can do this quite easily.[/QUOTE]
why not span the volume over with pointers
[editline]4th December 2010[/editline]
uhh look up how to disable driver signing on boot
[editline]4th December 2010[/editline]
also does safemode work?
[QUOTE=venn177;26474195]Installed Ubuntu on a flash drive. Tried to boot from it.
Ubuntu is now stuck at the bootup screen.[/QUOTE]
Try booting GParted
Put in the windows 7 disk. Install it to your current partition without formatting anything. All of your files will be found in Windows.Old.
[QUOTE=alt;26463752]Get two cd's, a linux distro one and 'gparted'. Make sure you actually have like the amount of space free on your hard drive. Like if you wish to back up 150gb, make sure you still have atleast 150gb free space on your hard drive.
Boot with gparted, it will allow you to change/add/remove partitions without having to format everything. You can decrease the size of the windows partition and add a new one for your backup. It might take a while. Then I'm not really sure whether you can actually move the files around while being in gparted, perhaps you can and then you'll not need a linux distro livecd.
But maybe you can't, and you'll have to boot with the linux distro and move the files you want to back up to the new backup partition and you'll be done.
You can then insert your windows installation disk etc etc. Just be sure that when you have to choose on what partition you want to install it, that you don't actually install it on your backup one. Or worse: erase the back up partition completely.
Perhaps there are also applications on a linux distro that function the same way as gparted, but I recommend gparted, I've used it a lot and it always worked properly.[/QUOTE]
linux live cds come with gparted
so do live USBs
i am on a persistent ubuntu live USB and i can run gparted fine
[QUOTE=Kybalt;26486024]Put in the windows 7 disk. Install it to your current partition without formatting anything. All of your files will be found in Windows.Old.[/QUOTE]
But he'll need to reactivate won't he
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;26489544]linux live cds come with gparted
so do live USBs
i am on a persistent ubuntu live USB and i can run gparted fine[/QUOTE]
ugh, I was I knew this earlier
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