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Lost power last night... so windows was not shut down properly. Upon startup, I lost some services - wireless, print services, some programs not running, etc... I went online to search for solutions. At some point I reached a 'windows validation' failure screen (in retrospect, some...

I'm unable to delete a user administrator account that was created by a program on Hiram's boot disk. The user account was created to delete a password on another administrator account. I can run 'control userpasswords2' and delete the account, I can delete the account the normal way in User...

Let me preface this by saying that I'm I'm not very computer literate so any help needs to be worded simply like for a child..I have installed WIN 7 64 and it has developed a problem..It wont boot to the desk top. It will post and go to the starting Windows screen sometimes and stops there..It...

Has anyone found a link to a free boot disk to reset windows 7 passwords?:confused:

I just built my first computer. Specs are in my profile. I can get into BIOS and the motherboard's onboard OS. BIOS recognizes both my HDDs, both my optical drives, all of my RAM (3x2GB), my CPU, etc. I have the most current version of the BIOS. I can not install Windows 7. I have tried 3...

[SOLVED] 0xc00000e9 After Install Wow... This install is driving me nuts. I've never had this much trouble installing an operating system. Here goes.. I'm trying to get Windows 7 64-bit installed. First I was getting an error about corrupt files during extraction, so I swapped out my RAM and...

Successfully installed Win7 (evaluation copy) to the second partition of my harddrive, hoping to be able to dual boot XP pro and Win7. Installed from the disk, not within XP, clean install. Other than my wireless card and sound not detected :(, I do not have an option to dual boot and cannot...

I've been trying on and off all week to install Windows 7 on my desktop and it has been a nightmare I have a downloaded copy of Windows 7 that I purchased through their $30 promotion for college students. First, the exe I get through their download manager wont extract the install files on my...

I am trying to upgrade from Windows Vista 32bit to Win 7 64bit. The only way to do a fresh install for me would be to boot the installer from the disk. When I hit f12 or whatever and select boot from cd/dvd drive, it says BOOTMGR missing and my computer restarts. So I can't install Windows 7. I...

I downloaded Windows 7 Professional 64-bit online and ran the executable (I am running inside of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit RC version) . It created the expandedSetup folder and opened the install window. The only options I have are 'Install' and 'What to know before installing Windows'. If I...

Actually, I had this problem with 7000 and 7022 as well. Insert DVD Launch setup.exe from within Win7 7048 Click "Install Now" Almost immediately I get: "Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install Windows, make sure that a partition on your...

Hi I got a copy of Win7 x64 Build 7048 from rapidshare but it is not an iso, I have burned it to dvd but its not a boot disk so I cant boot the rom to install, what is the easiest method for me to create a boot disk for this copy of windows. Mt last version was a iso so I just used blindwrite to...

installed Windows 7 beta 7220 on my pc and everything is fine ( nuked ) . but now i tried installing on mates and it goes to boot from disk and i get a 'Cannot boot from disk code:5' message top of screen then goes on to boot from HDD . i tired different HDD and Drive still no luck , any help...

Long story short, I have to get rid of W7 to go back to XP. I don't want to, but my office won't work, and I need to format anyways. I lost my XP boot disk, but found one to use later on. When I tried to boot, it said that it couldn't find any hard drives to install on. Anyone know if this is a...

When I power-up or wake up my laptop from hibernating Windows doesn't load and it asks for the boot disk, I used Daemon tools to install OS. It asks for the boot disk to be entered and to press enter. Since I don't have a boot disk I just power-off then on and Windows boots fine. For now I've...

I recently started my PC when I got back from holiday, it started the boot but before it got to the green loading bar for vista it just hung on a black screen. I then tried booting from the Vista Disk, this loaded and brought up the loading Windows Resources Bar, this bar filled but then hung on...