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OK. I just built a new computer last month. Did the usuals. SSD for boot drive. 4TB worth of storage so little more than Win 7 on the boot drive. If the Win 10 upgrade hoses the boot drive it's no big deal to start again. Everything important is already on other drives. Now on to my stupid...

Hi everyone, I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like) and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...

Yesterday, I uninstalled Daemon Tools VHDs in device management and restarted, and after that, I couldn't boot properly anymore, the automatic repair doesn't work, pc refresh is not working because the drive is apparently locked and pc rest is not working either because a required drive...

I've got this problem for a week n ow, and I really hate it that i can't boot my computer the normal way. Everything worked great in the beginning, but sometimes when i try to put my computer in sleep mode, it just turns off and never gets on. I have to remove the plug for a minute and plug it...

Hello, I've recently lost my boot drive to faulty wiring. Anyways, I got a new SSD and installed it, and put Windows 8 Pro on it, which I updated to 8.1 Pro. Anyways, the Serial Key for Windows 8.1 Pro that I bought isn't working anymore (presumably since I used it for this computer before my...

Recently I had to take out my Vista drive and pit it into a holder where now it is like an external drive. I want to boot that drive but when I attach it to my new computer (64 bit Windows 8.1) it doesn't boot. I really want to run that drive again and while I can see all the data on that...

Hello I built my own computer and my friend has a spare windows 8 PRO key yet it doesnt really work because I have the windows 8.1 PRO version on my usb boot drive (I am also on a mac at the moment because my charger broke for my pc) so Im wondering anyone know where I could get a BOOTABLE...

I think this experience may be useful to Win7/8 users who build and maintain home and small business systems. I regularly clone and swap drives keeping at least one spare at the ready per system at all times. I was shocked to discover that under certain conditions Win7 installation creates a...

I got my new comp today, was told that Win 7 would already be installed. turned it on & get this on the monitor, choose which boot device or boot disk, restart comp then press any key to continue. Shouldn't it start up with wind 7 if it is already installed ? So I then try to boot from disk &...

So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...

Hi, My 1Tb non-system disk has been giving trouble recently, so I bought a 2Tb replacement, fitted it, Robocopied the files I wanted over, took the old drive out and rebooted. What happened was a Windows 7 OS recovery was attempted and failed. I couldn't boot the computer. I installed...

Hi all, So I have had a small nightmarish time of updating my PC. I had bought a new GPU and a SSD harddisk. I could not get them installed properly myself, so had to turn in my PC to a professional to get them installed and working. I got my PC back today and the new GPU and the new harddisk...

I'm building a new rig and planning to install Windows 8.1 on an SSD as the boot drive. I'd like to move over my HDD with Windows 7 boot from my old machine to the new PC to use as a storage drive. Do I have to format the HDD in my old machine first or can I just install it to my new rig as is...

Ive been having a bit of trouble with my windows 7 Toshiba laptop computer lately. It started with my computer running slow one evening so I tried to restart it but when it started up, it blue screened for half a second and shut off. I tried repeating this but it just kept happening. I tried...

When I power up my machine, after BIOS the computer beeps with the 'no operating system found, press any key to continue.'. I press a key, and the machine boots no problem. This happens even with only the boot drive in the machine.. I've tried it with the drive in several different SATA plugs...

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Hi Everyone. I just downloaded and installed the new EaseUS TODO backup software on my computer. From the time I started downloading the software to the time I had a completed backup and a bootable repair disk was less then an hour. This software is really easy to use. During the install...

I have successfully created a rescue disc from outside of windows (with a boot disk) but cannot get past a 0x80070057 error code from the recovery app "create rescue disc" button from within control panel. My question is: for the rescue disk to be created from the control panel app, which...

So I wanted to upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro, and which so on as I was going to, I was unable to upgrade it because of two reasons; 1 - I cannot get through my Desktop screen nor to my Log In screen 2 - My Windows 7 Hard Drive has this message "disk boot failure insert system disk and...

I had Win 7 Pro running on one SSD and something screwed up the registry in a minor way so that a few things didn't work right any more. I added another SSD and installed a second Win 7 Pro copy on it to run the two copies in a dual boot config while I got the second installation up to speed to...