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#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 HOW TO#
#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 INSTALL#
#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 SOFTWARE#
#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 CODE#

DELETE 1 PARTITION (if you only have 1, delete that) once everything is complete and you're ready to install.

#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 INSTALL#

Windows will force you to install a 'hidden partition'. when you get to the screen where you specify where to install Windows I have since done a clean install and bypassed the 'hidden partition'.įor people who may want to avoid this problematic 'hidden partition': The only workaround is to extend the 'hidden partition' but it's quite complicated using command line with DiskPart. It would always fail with: "not enough space" or something. I was able to create a 'system image' backup no problems.īut if i restore to that image then try to make a backup from that. I can confirm the 'hidden partition' is the root of all evil! I don't know that my problem is with the BCD store itself - perhaps it's some partition table issue, or some pointer somewhere? Any ideas? Helps, I couldn't find any info on this subject for months so I just played around with the BCD, and installing another OS" (from ). Then you can uninstall that extra Operating System.

Hibernation problem, including using EasyBcd, but the only thing that worked was installing another copy of windows on a different partition, this rewrites the BCD. You can edit/view your BCD by opening up command prompt and using the command bcdedit /? for a list of options. Section of the BCD which points your computer in the direction of the operating system to resume from and to. Most likely its a problem with the "Resume from Hibernate"

"I had a problem with hibernation restarting my computer, and finally figured out that there is a problem with your BCD (Boot Configuration Data Store) in the boot folder (ex: C:\boot\bcd).

There is a report from someone else who was never really able to repair his bcd file: bcdedit isn't able to locate the bcd store (it *is* able to locate it when i put it on the c: drive). I then assigned the hidden partition to E:, ran bcdboot c:\windows /s e:, and rebooted. Update: running the following command and setting my C: partition to Active allows my machine to hibernate: The system firmware does not support this standby state. The following sleep states are not available on this system: The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby ( S3 ) Hibernate Hybrid Sleep

Works, but upon reboot it stops working again. If I assign a drive letter and then remove it, bcdedit still Otherwise, it just gives me the error that it can't find the bcd store data. Here it is, but fyi, I have to assign a drive letter to the hidden partition in order for bcdedit to work. My problems go away when I assign a drive letter to this.

#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 HOW TO#

I am using windows backup and I have a workaround, just wondering how and why this happened and how to restore the parition to hidden. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe Need a some parts finish the new server, see the site for remaining items needed Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)!

#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 SOFTWARE#

if you have tape though then you need 3rd party software as Microsoft no longer provides it with Windows backup. You can ignore it, its not affecting the C: drive and you can backup files as you wish to any target you have. That partition is small at 100 megabytes and its intended for the OS cold boot loader.

#MEDIA CENTER OS PARTITION FOR WINDOWS 7 CODE#

Here is the backup error:"The system cannot find the file specified", with the error code of 0x80070002ĭo not mess with the small hidden partition on the hard disk. Also BCDEdit gives you a file not found message. When you look under Advanced System Settings/Advanced/Startup and Recovery the default OS pull down is blank. When hibernating the system just returns to the logon screen. It hidden again but when I do the issues come back.

I was able to resolve both issues by assigning a drive letter to the 200MB partition, but why is this required all of a sudden? I'd like to make I have a workaround for a problem I was having but still don't understand the cause.Īll of a sudden my Windows 7 圆4 Ultimate install would not hibernate and the backup would fail.