I’m not sure what happened. I have a Dell XPS 8300 that was running fine this morning. Windows 7 Ultimate is installed. The hard drive is partitioned asfollows:
– OEM Partition 39 MB
– Recovery 35.44 GB
– OS 300 GB W7 Ultimate
– OS#2 300 GB Empty
– DATA 1227.54 GB
I left it running and returned this afternoon to the following screen:
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Drive 0: primary 01 Win Vista/2008 NFTS Recovery
Drive 1: primary 1: linux NTFS OS
Insert startup disk in floppy drive & press F2 to run setup
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The “Win Vista/2008” is highlighted. ”NTFS” is in Blue. “Recovery” and “OS” are in Red.
If I press F2, it tries to load from a non-existent floppy drive. If I press “Enter”, the correct OS loads.
I did have Paragon Backup set to run a full backup of all partitions on Drive 0. The program shows it as succeeding, but I don’t see the backup files.
This is sounding like the boot loader is wacked. Anyone seen this and/or have a solution?
Regards,
Hank Arnold
Network Administrator – Hospice, Inc.
MVP (Windows Server – Directory Services)
