Uninstalling BING?
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:32 pm
I asked this question in April Newsgroup and received an answer that I thought would work. But the issue persists.
I now boot my system using a swappable SSD with 2 fixed hard disks for data and a Photoshop scratch disk. One (or both?) of the hard disks may have been used in the past as multi-OS boot disks with BING. When I switch my SSD to use my other OS the motherboard bios does not always automatically boot from that drive and instead attempts to boot from one of the HDs. No big deal, I just fix that 'disk boot order/boot drive' setting in the bios and all's well.
BUT - When the system tries to boot from one of the HDs I get a 'Bootit EMBR MISSING' message that pops up. I thought I had gotten rid of that already so I went back to my notes: "Boot bing from CD, Go to partition work: view mbr/std mbr/apply. Undo embr on any drive that has that option".
Perhaps I did not understand these instructions. Today I launched Bootit via the CD, went to Partition work, checked all the hard disks for any evidence of an EMBR partition and there none on any of the drives. So why am I still getting that message??
Am I supposed to also select 'View MBR' and then select 'Std MBR' , even if there's no EMBR partition visible, and then press Apply? What will this do to a drive that never had Bootit installed? I just don't want to do something wrong and have to restore those drives from backups.
The reply I got on the Newsgroup was so short and lacking in detail that it has me still wasting time with an issue that should be easy to resolve with clear instructions.
The first Newsgroup response from TeraByte support last April was:
"boot bing, go to partition work, undo embr on any drive that has that option, (if it was installed you'd also go view mbr / std mbr / apply)."
and a followup:
"go to partition work then undo embr on the drives, view mbr/std mbr/appy on hd0."
(Clear) advise on how to resolve this once and for all would be appreciated
Russell
I now boot my system using a swappable SSD with 2 fixed hard disks for data and a Photoshop scratch disk. One (or both?) of the hard disks may have been used in the past as multi-OS boot disks with BING. When I switch my SSD to use my other OS the motherboard bios does not always automatically boot from that drive and instead attempts to boot from one of the HDs. No big deal, I just fix that 'disk boot order/boot drive' setting in the bios and all's well.
BUT - When the system tries to boot from one of the HDs I get a 'Bootit EMBR MISSING' message that pops up. I thought I had gotten rid of that already so I went back to my notes: "Boot bing from CD, Go to partition work: view mbr/std mbr/apply. Undo embr on any drive that has that option".
Perhaps I did not understand these instructions. Today I launched Bootit via the CD, went to Partition work, checked all the hard disks for any evidence of an EMBR partition and there none on any of the drives. So why am I still getting that message??
Am I supposed to also select 'View MBR' and then select 'Std MBR' , even if there's no EMBR partition visible, and then press Apply? What will this do to a drive that never had Bootit installed? I just don't want to do something wrong and have to restore those drives from backups.
The reply I got on the Newsgroup was so short and lacking in detail that it has me still wasting time with an issue that should be easy to resolve with clear instructions.
The first Newsgroup response from TeraByte support last April was:
"boot bing, go to partition work, undo embr on any drive that has that option, (if it was installed you'd also go view mbr / std mbr / apply)."
and a followup:
"go to partition work then undo embr on the drives, view mbr/std mbr/appy on hd0."
(Clear) advise on how to resolve this once and for all would be appreciated
Russell