Recent content by steve752

update ripped out hd and stuck another in there dropped another OS on it and laptop working fine going to be looking at accessing the old hd now but got a hammer handy just in case!!!! thanks for info and advice cheers

i have the ability to do this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html if i 'clean' the disk,will i be able to re install a OS?

i do have the facility of using cmd prompt.(which i am hoping is the answer) the owner of the laptop is elderly and does not know if bitlocker was installed i was going to use the disk wipe on the recovery toolset http://s137.photobucket.com/user/7S6H1C/media/photo13.jpg.html but wasnt sure if...

partition 1 is still there although not in the picture i have used the dell troubleshooting utility and it says everything is fine. i watched it go through all the checks and tick the boxes. then i re boot and blue screen telling me i have an issue and the pc needs to be fixed lol quoting code...

a friend dropped off a dell 3521 for me to install windows8.1 on. for some reason windows8 has disappeared and the Hdd is locked of so i cant install 8.1 on any partition. i took the Hdd drive out to get access to it and i cant even do that,its protected. i put windows8 on a usb stick and all...