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What I did was install Windows (either from free Windows 10 downloadable media from Microsoft’s website, or from my own windows 8 media, using my own windows 8 key — I don’t recall for sure). Then I used a free tool I found to extract the old windows vista key from the “Windows.old” folder left...

Hi, My friend has an 8-year old Dell Studio One all-in-one desktop computer that appears to have a bad hard drive. My friend doesn't have a recovery USB nor DVD. Question is, if we get a new hard drive, is there a way we can install and activate Windows Vista legally, without buying Windows...

I tried different RAM sticks. I pulled out the original GPU (nvidia) and put a different one (ati) in. I removed the DVD drive. I enabled "boot logging" and looked at the boot log file... the last driver mentioned was an nvidia driver, so using the command prompt I removed the sys file and...

It was running fine for months, then suddenly it didn't work anymore. I don't recall installing updates just before I had issues, but maybe I did...

I have an issue with getting a completely black screen. I never see a desktop. I never even see the login screen. If I press the sleep button on the case, then start it back up, I see a mouse pointer too. But on first boot, there is no mouse pointer. Booting in safe mode has the exact same...

Nevermind. I solved it. I had to use "fixboot".

I installed windows 8 on a new partition on my really old computer. Something I did made windows 8 not boot anymore (I don't want it on my computer, I want to fully revert back to XP). But, XP won't boot either! The error message when trying to boot xp is: Windows failed to start. A...

It says "C:" is the "boot" partition, but "D:" is a "system" partition. I went ahead and restored my files from backup to be sure.

I have not noticed missing files. D: used to have vista installed on it, I think I was dual booting (it was a while ago, so I can't remember for sure; I can't think of any good reason to dual boot vista and win7 :) . Not sure what "system" partition means.

Did you ever use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to look at the drive? Yes. Had that partition always show a red indicator? Yes, as long as it had lots of data. Does the total size of the partiton seem to be the same as before? Yes. If you want, you can take a snipping tool picture of your Disk...

I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...

Thank you! My problem was: On boot, i had no internet connection. To fix it, I had to do was go and disable the Ethernet adapter, then re-enable it.... after every boot. Here's what I did to fix the problem: I opened Services and set the "##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##"...