Recent content by JAMES MCDONALD

Maybe when I recreate 8.1 or Windows 10 maybe just maybe I will produce a recovery disk that will boot!!!

I contacted Lenovo support and he ran me through the process of putting everything into legacy but still my disk would not boot. He did not use f12 in the process but said my disk was not bootable. Since it has all the elements of a bootable media I have big questions about that. All I know is...

I have the exact recovery disk that you gave me but I can't boot it. It is on a SANDDISK 16 GB drive. I don't see a buyers listing of UEFI boot capable usb drives How do I know. There are no specs on this specification. Newegg does not sell such items.

I bought a win 8 computer W/O A PRODUCT KEY. I did upgrade it to 8.1. I need web sites or any other information on how to reinstall win 8.1 or even repair 8.1 WITHOUT A PRODUCT KEY. I found one web site by Paul Thurrott but it required a RETAIL product key. Jim

I have one key recovery on my computer.

Unfortunately I don't have a retail win 8. My win 8 was preinstalled. No retail win 8 product key which I need. Jim

Thanks for the idea. If I can't figure out the correction for the app problem I will take your above method of reinstalling. I need to get a reinstall disk anyway.

I did not have a problem with upgrading Win 8 but with the apps as described. Many don't open up and if I uninstall the icon that is there ,the store either says they are already on my metro or when I do install them the icon doesn't open up. Am I making myself clear since I am not a...

I just bought a new slim laptop Lenovo Ideapad S210 loaded with win 8 from Newegg. After installing win 8.1 from windows store I found major problems. Most of the icons don't open up. Even when I download new apps most of them work first and then don't work. One of them downloaded but I...

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I am running windows 7 on the computer and trying to install the preview formatted and clean on a small area larger than what's recommended for installing 32 bit space. Tried doing this on two different computers and get an MS error code of 8 ...... on both. Even if I install the RTM I...

I have a nvidia geforce 9300m GS 256 MB. I assume it is A MicrosoftDirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver? So direct x9 is 2007 or so vintage and I have a WDDM DRIVER FOR WIN 7. NOW WHY CAN'T I INSTALL WIN 8.1 PREVIEW. Retail stores are selling 8 with computers with BIOS not UEFI...