Windows 7 Causing Boot Failure?

[Nielo TM]

It would seem when Win7 partitions the HDD upon install, it sometimes causes boot failure where the system freezes during POST. It seems to happen when a forth unallocated partition appears after creating the required partitions.


You can find all the details on the link below.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1524321


I can't believe such major has gone unnoticed for so long. Is there a fix for this issue or do I have to manually create partition via HDD manufacturers software? So far, it only happed once on both systems. Let's hope it doesn't occur for some time.

 

[provoko]

It would seem when Win7 partitions the HDD upon install, it sometimes causes boot failure where the system freezes during POST. It seems to happen when a forth unallocated partition appears after creating the required partitions.


You can find all the details on the link below.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1524321


I can't believe such major has gone unnoticed for so long. Is there a fix for this issue or do I have to manually create partition via HDD manufacturers software? So far, it only happed once on both systems. Let's hope it doesn't occur for some time.

Time to get a new hard drive. Haha. But I have noticed sometimes win7 partitions wrong.

I use gparted, it's free and runs off a cd after restarting the computer. It puts you into an environment where nothing can go wrong.

There's a neat little program that recovers messed up or deleted partitions: testdisk. You can download it or use it off the gparted cd.

 

[Nielo TM]

Excellent, thanks.

PS: I know for a fact both HDDs are perfectly fine. There's no signs of failure or damage.


PPS: Windows 7 creates 100MB partition for System Reserved. How important is that? If I were to manually create partitions, then it can't be created during installation...correct?