Hi
I have in the last couple of months used Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010 to add a Win7 installation to 2 computers that were running XP SP2, followed by the installation of Paragon Boot Manager.
On one PC (this one), the installation has gone like a dream and there have been no problems with switching between OSes/booting up/what ever.
On the other, the installation of both the W7 OS and of Boot manager seemed to go fine. I then left it with a default boot to XP, so that my wife could continue to use an OS with which she was familiar. The PC is generally left on and it goes into sleep mode overnight.
No problems for a while until a few days ago, when we needed to reboot for some reason (?a Windows security upgrade?).
Now, when the system boots, the boot process hangs for several minutes (at least 5) at the point before the memory test, and before the decision to boot from hard drive or CD, and with no response to the various f keys (at least not immediately - they will eventually work) until suddenly the process starts off again for apparently no reason apart from time. Boot manager then works normally.
Any ideas how to analyse or correct this?
I have a single Seagate SATA 250 GB hard drive with two partitions.
I have checked the hard drive with SeaTools: no problems.
I have tried replacing the MBR from within the Paragon Partition Manager 10: no difference.
I have tried updating the BIOS: no difference.
I have tried altering the BIOS settings both to Fail/safe and to Optimised: no difference.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Paragon Boot Manager: no difference.
I installed EasyBCD for Win7 and run it (nice program! thanks
), but I can't seem to alter anything to make things run differently.
It would seem that either there is a conflict with something that eventually resolves, or that the Boot-up program is looking for something that isn't there, and eventually gives up. But I don't know how to find out what that something is! or how to rejig it.
Any advice gratefully received. Ta!
I have in the last couple of months used Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010 to add a Win7 installation to 2 computers that were running XP SP2, followed by the installation of Paragon Boot Manager.
On one PC (this one), the installation has gone like a dream and there have been no problems with switching between OSes/booting up/what ever.
On the other, the installation of both the W7 OS and of Boot manager seemed to go fine. I then left it with a default boot to XP, so that my wife could continue to use an OS with which she was familiar. The PC is generally left on and it goes into sleep mode overnight.
No problems for a while until a few days ago, when we needed to reboot for some reason (?a Windows security upgrade?).
Now, when the system boots, the boot process hangs for several minutes (at least 5) at the point before the memory test, and before the decision to boot from hard drive or CD, and with no response to the various f keys (at least not immediately - they will eventually work) until suddenly the process starts off again for apparently no reason apart from time. Boot manager then works normally.
Any ideas how to analyse or correct this?
I have a single Seagate SATA 250 GB hard drive with two partitions.
I have checked the hard drive with SeaTools: no problems.
I have tried replacing the MBR from within the Paragon Partition Manager 10: no difference.
I have tried updating the BIOS: no difference.
I have tried altering the BIOS settings both to Fail/safe and to Optimised: no difference.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Paragon Boot Manager: no difference.
I installed EasyBCD for Win7 and run it (nice program! thanks
It would seem that either there is a conflict with something that eventually resolves, or that the Boot-up program is looking for something that isn't there, and eventually gives up. But I don't know how to find out what that something is! or how to rejig it.
Any advice gratefully received. Ta!

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