1) What would be the order in which I should run the scripts?. 2) What should I do if I dont have a hidden partition (System Reserved)? Thanks.
Check out the HOWTO I made. The link is in the original post. After you copy the files to your boot partition: install_wow reboot install_cert install_key check_activation
hi, when i try and install wow7 as administrator from the c:\ drive, i get the following error message 'bootsectgrldr.exe' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. any ideas, to the error?
worked for me. i preferred this solution that others as here i can see everything happening, it is small and can have no hidden harms, others are full GUI installers.
Is this message normal? Updated NTFS filesystem bootcode. The update may be unreliable since the volume could not be locked during the update: Access is denied. Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes. Press any key to continue . . . Regards. Edit: Still no good news for me. None of the loaders still work on my HP 2710p.
Check if install_wow.bat and bootsectgrldr.exe are present in the same folder. Run install_wow.bat from inside that folder.
Yes, the message is normal. Sorry it doesn't work. It works better if you computer already have slic 2.0. During boot, can you see text on the screen, from grub? You should see things like "Starting Windows 98" and "starting cmain()" and similar stuff. If you see them, then wow is not working for you. If you don't see them, then you did not install it successfully.
The error is due to the cmd prompt not being able to "find" the bootsect...exe file to run it... It is due to an issue with the install_wow.bat not setting a proper path to find the bootsect... file. Try changing the contents of install_wow.bat to: (Note: You must have the all the files <all the .bat/.exe/whatever files...ALL THE FILES> for this WoW 7.0.1a lo*der in the root of your win7 drive <or hidden partition>...e.g.: C:\ or D:\ or E:\ or R:\) Code: @echo off for %%X in (C: D: E: R:) do ( if exist %%X\bootmgr goto :continue ) goto :end :continue Path = %path%;%%X\ bootsectgrldr.exe /nt60 %%X echo Process complete. Press any key to continue. pause > nul exit :end echo Process Failed. Unable to find boot partition. Press any key to continue. pause > nul exit
What happens? What is the error? Can you post a screenshot? Any information would be great, other than "It does not work..." and then a frowny face, which is totally meaningless...
OK, then most likely you have a hidden partition that Win7 is booting off of, and this is what is causing you trouble... Run the command "diskmgmt.msc" from the run/search bar in the start button... <right click it, then "Run as Administrator" in the list above the search bar> Once that opens, you should see all the volumes on your hard drive. One of them should be 100MB in size and have _no_ drive letter or label assigned to it... Do you see this?
I manually updated WoW v7 by over writing the wow7 directory and grldr, menu.lst file with v7.0.1a files. Rebooted and tried hibernating, everything still seems to work. Q. Is there anyway to get it to load up without seeing all the 'cmain...' stuff?