My Latest Computer Tech Horror Story

As many people are aware, Windows 7 does not like to play certain older games even with Dos Box. I have 3 Hard Disk Drives and 1 Solid State Drive, two of the three are specialized in games and general media while the third contained my previous OS last used in December 2012.

I decided to wipe the third drive and install XP onto it with the hope that some of the older games would be nice. Drive formats without a problem and XP installs nearly perfectly with the exception that the network drivers had to be installed by USB.

So XP was running fine and I decided it was time to go back over to Win7, shutdown computer and booted from the SSD that contained Win7 and this is what I see:

BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart.

Oops, that's not good.

Skipping a few hours of troubleshooting I eventually gave up and decided to wipe the SSD and reinstall Win7. Not much data was lost fortunately since the only data on the SSD was the OS and programs such as CCleaner and Defraggler.

Ugh, and for whatever reasons the HDD with XP now refuses to start too and will most likely be wiped and turned into a general drive. So that's been my day so far.