Well, I just built a new PC and quite naturally assumed my old IDE DVD drive would work fine with it. Unfortunately, this new fangled gadgetry doesn't support IDE anymore. No problem! I thought, as I had an 8gb flash stick lying around. Using Microsoft's boot tool, I stuck the windows 7 iso on the flash drive and it all seemed to work fine, until I came across the infamous no dvd/cd driver found (which was amusing, because there wasn't one installed).
So plan B: I stuck my old XP hard drive in, installed 7 on my new drive, took the old XP one out and tried to use Windows repair to automatically fix the boot record on the new one. No good. /bootrec also failed, for whatever reason. I hope I'm right in thinking EasyBCD will help, but when I tried using it, Windows comes up with a 'oxc0000098' error, saying there's no boot record available.
With EasyBCD, I did - Install BCD, then chose the BCD on the flash drive, then chose 'Install the Windows 7/Vista bootloader to the MBR'. Is this the wrong way to go about it? This is day two of trying to fix this up, it's a bit frustrating. The only other thing I can think of is either buy a new drive, or put the Windows 7 hard drive in my old PC and install it again that way... though that's a bit inconvenient and ineffiecient.
Cheers.
So plan B: I stuck my old XP hard drive in, installed 7 on my new drive, took the old XP one out and tried to use Windows repair to automatically fix the boot record on the new one. No good. /bootrec also failed, for whatever reason. I hope I'm right in thinking EasyBCD will help, but when I tried using it, Windows comes up with a 'oxc0000098' error, saying there's no boot record available.
With EasyBCD, I did - Install BCD, then chose the BCD on the flash drive, then chose 'Install the Windows 7/Vista bootloader to the MBR'. Is this the wrong way to go about it? This is day two of trying to fix this up, it's a bit frustrating. The only other thing I can think of is either buy a new drive, or put the Windows 7 hard drive in my old PC and install it again that way... though that's a bit inconvenient and ineffiecient.
Cheers.
