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Yesterday I had the most stupid idea I've had in a long time. I had a spare SATA drive from an old computer and I decided to install a giant virus. This giant virus is called Windows 8.1 Consumer Preview, which closely follows Windows 8 as the worst OS in the history of the universe, in which not only it's unusable, but also that it leaves your computer unbootable into anything that is not this godawful abomination.
The problem is, once I realized that what some people were saying about 8.1 being such an improvement over 8 wasn't true, I wanted to just take away the old drive and go back to my Windows 7 Pro installation. That's when the nightmare began.
First of all, this very poorly conceived attempt at an operating system takes about 30 seconds even to reach the stage where you can choose the OS to boot. But when choosing Windows 7, after a few seconds I get this error:
\Windows\System 32\winload.efi
Status: 0xC0000428
Info: The digital signature for this file could not be verified.
So I figured I would simply boot from the Windows 7 install DVD, choose a startup repair and be done. Boy was I wrong. After doing that unsuccessfully a few times, I went online from another computer to search for a solution. It turns out that several other people had that problem, but I tried every single suggestion I read in several forums and none of them worked. Things like this: http://www.eightforums.com/installa...em32-winload-efi-status-0xc0000428-error.html although many users seem to have the same error code but with the file winload.exe instead. Perhaps this has to do with the fact that I have made my boot drive a GPT.
So I figured at least I would wipe the small drive that I had the antichrist OS installed onto and install Windows 7 temporarily to at least be able to access the files I had in the boot drive. Well, this source of all evil OS corrupts the system so badly that after the Win 7 install disc finishes copying the files and reboots, the next time it still gives me the same 0xc0000428 error. The only way I was able to install Windows 7 was to physically unplug the other 3 drives in my computer and leave only the old small drive, then plug them back in when Win 7 was already installed.
By now I'm resigned to spend all weekend reinstalling Windows 7 and all my programs to go back to where I was, but I would really like to be able to boot into my older Windows 7 installation to finish some work before I do the new install.
So the first I did was to make a serious promise that I will never ever buy Windows 8, and given the way Microsoft has fallen out of touch with their customers, Windows 7 is the last Windows version I will ever have.
But other than that, can anyone think of a way I can boot into my older Windows 7 install? It's on a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB, one GPT partition if it makes a difference.
Thanks,
The guy who hates Windows 8 the most in the whole wide world.
Thread closed by request of OP
-ViRGE
The problem is, once I realized that what some people were saying about 8.1 being such an improvement over 8 wasn't true, I wanted to just take away the old drive and go back to my Windows 7 Pro installation. That's when the nightmare began.
First of all, this very poorly conceived attempt at an operating system takes about 30 seconds even to reach the stage where you can choose the OS to boot. But when choosing Windows 7, after a few seconds I get this error:
\Windows\System 32\winload.efi
Status: 0xC0000428
Info: The digital signature for this file could not be verified.
So I figured I would simply boot from the Windows 7 install DVD, choose a startup repair and be done. Boy was I wrong. After doing that unsuccessfully a few times, I went online from another computer to search for a solution. It turns out that several other people had that problem, but I tried every single suggestion I read in several forums and none of them worked. Things like this: http://www.eightforums.com/installa...em32-winload-efi-status-0xc0000428-error.html although many users seem to have the same error code but with the file winload.exe instead. Perhaps this has to do with the fact that I have made my boot drive a GPT.
So I figured at least I would wipe the small drive that I had the antichrist OS installed onto and install Windows 7 temporarily to at least be able to access the files I had in the boot drive. Well, this source of all evil OS corrupts the system so badly that after the Win 7 install disc finishes copying the files and reboots, the next time it still gives me the same 0xc0000428 error. The only way I was able to install Windows 7 was to physically unplug the other 3 drives in my computer and leave only the old small drive, then plug them back in when Win 7 was already installed.
By now I'm resigned to spend all weekend reinstalling Windows 7 and all my programs to go back to where I was, but I would really like to be able to boot into my older Windows 7 installation to finish some work before I do the new install.
So the first I did was to make a serious promise that I will never ever buy Windows 8, and given the way Microsoft has fallen out of touch with their customers, Windows 7 is the last Windows version I will ever have.
But other than that, can anyone think of a way I can boot into my older Windows 7 install? It's on a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB, one GPT partition if it makes a difference.
Thanks,
The guy who hates Windows 8 the most in the whole wide world.
Thread closed by request of OP
-ViRGE
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