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xplodingtaco1
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Hi I've built my pc a while ago and it has been working like a charm. But one day, I was rebooting and I got a windows xp boot logo whilst I have w7. Weird right? And I couldn't get rid of it, it would just boot windows xp and bsod. I managed to fix it by whatever reason, I just unplugged my external harddrive I guess. Well that happened yesterday again. I couldn't fix it, and in my boot options my boot drive did not appear! I unplugged my external again and it still didn't appear. Then I unplugged my ssd and it worked! But I am wondering, what is the problem? I am presuming it has to do with the fact that I have xp on my old hard drive, so I deleted the windows folder. Will that solve the problem?
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Having XP on your HDD is an issue, whether you should del it or not is a concern.
Contact a tech.
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xplodingtaco1 wrote Hi I've built my pc a while ago and it has been working like a charm. But one day, I was rebooting and I got a windows xp boot logo whilst I have w7. Weird right? And I couldn't get rid of it, it would just boot windows xp and bsod. I managed to fix it by whatever reason, I just unplugged my external harddrive I guess. Well that happened yesterday again. I couldn't fix it, and in my boot options my boot drive did not appear! I unplugged my external again and it still didn't appear. Then I unplugged my ssd and it worked! But I am wondering, what is the problem? I am presuming it has to do with the fact that I have xp on my old hard drive, so I deleted the windows folder. Will that solve the problem?
sounds like the MBR on your external has been corrupted, you can plug the external into a running comupter and see if you can access any of the files or run disc management on it and try to figure out what the issue is and then use testdisk or restoration data recovery and see if you can pull any files off the external or repair the filesystem, but i would simply reformat it. As they say if its worth saving save it in two places if not three.
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