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Windows 7 – “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter” Fix
Posted in Articles, Solving Problems, Tutorials by Nick on October 18th, 2009
The Problem
I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a brand new SATA hard drive. I have another SATA HDD as well as a smaller EIDE (PATA) hard drive inside my machine. After rebooting, I recieved a message saying “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter.” I thought that somehow the bootloader got messed up because my other SATA HDD had Vista on it, so I booted to the Windows 7 installation DVD and ran the startup repair tool, as well as running the command prompt commands “bootrec.exe /FixMBR” and “bootrec.exe /FixBoot.” I restarted and still recieved the same error.
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New Photoshop Tutorial: How to Draw a Unique Desktop Speaker
Posted in Site News, Tutorials by Nick on January 12th, 2009
This morning, I decided to make a tutorial on how I drew the speakers that appear on the top of my music page. I did not trace anything, I simply looked at one of my speakers sitting in front of me on my desk and drew them. In the tutorial, I show each step I went through, and hopefully it will help you draw other things with the same techniques you learn in the tutorial!
Check out the tutorial here: How to Draw a Unique Desktop Speaker.
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New Tutorial: How to Ink and Color a Cartoon Portrait Using a Pen Tablet
Posted in Site News, Tutorials by Nick on October 14th, 2008
Sarah Blue has just completed a brand new, exclusive tutorial for my site, which explains in-depth how to ink and color a cartoon portrait using Photoshop, in 4 parts. I hope you enjoy it, and please spread it around!
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