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I am currently running Windows XP 32-bit. I am attempting to install Windows 7 64 (yes, my processor is a 64). When I boot from the disk, I get the initial black screen and the loading files bar, the moving dots and windows logo. Then an artsy blue screen and nothing else. I can move my mouse...

Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...

i put in the vista anytime upgrade disc, it says loading files, when it loads it goes straight to a black screen with mouse. before it got this bad it use to make it up to the first install instructions( language ect.) then it would only load the background image, and then where i am now, the...

so i have 3 big problems. background- my laptop's harddrive died, so i took the harddrive out of my external western digital passport and put it into my laptop and installed windows 7. i've never used vista before, so this jump from xp to 7 is quite annoying 1. so a lot files i can't access...

Hi, I have the most bizarre problem, well it is bizarre to me at least and I can't find a way around it. I have just built a new pc with 2 x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDDs and Samsung and Sony DVD-RW drives and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I have run the installation process for Windows...

Hi there, I've been using W7 RC x64 since it came out and I must say it worked great. However, this morning I've had a Disk boot failure message. I didn't have time to investigate yet, but I'd like to hear your thoughts about the possible cause of this. I did not install anything that day or...

Hello, I want to setup a Raid 1 mirror from one drive to another using Windows software raid. I know in XP you could not do this on the boot partition (C drive). Is it possible to do this in Windows 7? Thanks

Installing Windows 7: I found threads on this problem under other OSes Like Vista (shocker). The error message is "A required Cd/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver flopply disk, CD, DVD, or usb flash drive, please insert now. Now this is after I booted from a...

Check out http://windows7news.com/2009/04/27/upgrading-from-windows-7-rc-to-final/ for a fairly logical and believable answer to the question of upgrading from RC to RTM. The pertinent text is shown below: The only official indicator that upgrading from Windows 7 release candidate to Windows 7...

Ok I find this to be a pretty weird problem. I have w7 RC 64bit installed successfully. My primary drive is first on the boot list of hdds and my current boot order is removable, cd-rom, hard drive and I have other boot methods disabled (had to because it was trying to do a network boot before)...

I have done a clean instal of Win7 RC on a new drive "G", Vista is still on Drive "C". Eventualy Vista will go and I would like Drive to Change Drive G to Drive C as my boot drive. At present I am dual bootuing, C or G I have tried using the Drive manager also Acronis Disk Director and had...

ok so here is how my pc was set 3Xsata hdd(storage) 1Xide hdd(os) so i had vista installed on my ide hdd and decided to install windows 7 on one of my sata hdd ( 75gig raptor 10 000rpm) everything whent ok i installed all my drivers, avira,nero8 , winrar etc etc. then i did my updates 1st was...

Now that I have used XP Mode enough to feel safe with it, I want to remove the dual boot from my system. My boot drive has two partitions. Drive C boots to Windows 7 and D boots to XP. If I format drive D will I still be able to boot up in Windows 7? Thanks in advance, Cygnus333 (Chris)

Hi, yesterday i intalled 7 on my ASUS G50VT-X1, it's running ok except by a little problem, after i put a DVD/CD in the drive it reads it for a few minutes and then disconnect the drive with the disc rotating inside it (it does not stop after a while), after that it does not appear in 'Devices...

Something happened.... I don't know what, but have one partition and 2 drive (un-partitioned) that I can't read. This seems like an easy fix IF I can find a program to do it. The drive appears to be intact. Paragon partition manager show correct info about drives. I can even BOOT to windows 7...

Ok, so i tried installing Win 7 RC1 on an external HDD, but got following problems: 1. on eSATA it wouldn't see it, as i assume the drivers for the controller are loaded after booting, during windows startup (if any one knows a workaround for this, something as a startup flash drive for loading...

I have been troubleshooting an issue for a week where the p.c. goes through normal quick shutdown process but just restarts instead of shutting down.. It started after I clean installed 7100 on an old Gateway that had been running 7000 fine for 3 months. WHen it became impossible to fix I...

Is there a limit to the size of a boot partition for Windows? Seems like Win 7 will only install on partitions smaller than about 2TB. If this is the case, what is the best way to make sure all the user directories and public folders are installed to a different drive rather than the boot...

HI all. topic is self explanitory. How do you make a bootable Windows 7 disk. I have the ISO files but when I try to make a disk it will not boot. Using UltraISO I was able to burn what I thought was a bootable disk, but on startup the screen just goes black and I';m stuck with a blinking cursor...

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...