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Hey all, I am having a few computer problems and I was hoping to find a little help with them My computer is new, I built it a few months ago, and I am fairly certain that some sort of virus completely destroyed my system yesterday. From idle desktop it gave me an error that a file that...

Hey everybody, just encountered what i think may be a boot sector trojan virus. Im running windows 7 on a sony vaio and can only get into the BIOs system (version R0200Z5). Im unable to boot into anything (normal mode, safe mode, system restore points) when trying, my comp just...

During an automatic update from Microsoft last night the battery fell out of my daughters laptop. This morning, nothing will open. Have tried safe mode but even that won't open windows. After a lot of digging it says on the recovery management that there is a bad patch which presumably if the...

I am thinking of buying a small ssd for a boot drive because they are so fast. However I want to keep all my data on my old hardrive because it will not fit on my new ssd. I was thinking if there was then a way of unistalling old windows from the old hardrive but keeping all the programs and...

Hi all, I'm at my wits end while trying to upgrade to Windows 7. I'd previously had Vista Home Premium 64bit installed, and everything was fine apart from loading speeds, odd crashes etc. I bought a student edition copy of Windows 7 Professional (64bit) from software for students.com. I...

I posted the stuff below to the ocz support site, as I think my hard drive is causing the bsod's. I thought it would probably be better to resolve the bsod's here. "I've been getting bsod's since saturday and have been trying to pinpoint the problem. Sooo the details.. The bsod stop code is...

I have a modified HP Media Center Edition. My dad was on it and said that it crashed with a BSOD. When I rebooted it said Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. I inserted the Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate installation disk that I had used to install this copy and the computer...

Hi all, copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i...

My computer is reletivly new, here are the specs. AMD Phenom II 840 Quad Core(x4) 3.2Ghz ASUS M4A78LT-M LE 8Gb Dual Channel DDR3-1333 Seagate/Western Digital 1TB SATA II Liteon 24x SATA Dual Layer DVD Writer Nvidia Geforce GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 Basically the problem first started yesterday after...

Is it possible to fix my boot disk problem on a computer that does not have a CD drive? I have an Acer laptop running Windows 7. The computer froze up and I had to force power it down. Upon restarting, I got the "boot disk failure" message and the machine was making strange "clicking" noises...

I wanted to install a new SSD. Intended to clone it, but my cloning software wouldn't work with it (SSD was smaller than the drive I wanted to clone). So I used Paragon to copy my boot partition to the drive (after I made it active). I then tried to boot from the SSD (using BIOS settings)...

My 160 GB Win7 drive on my laptop failed (single partition), but thankfully I had a backup that I created on a 750 GB drive using EASUS Partition Master COPY. The backup drive is FULLY BOOTABLE, I've been booting into Windows 7 from an eSata external interface with no issues. It has a partition...

My 160 GB Win7 drive on my laptop failed (single partition), but thankfully I had a backup that I created on a 750 GB drive using EASUS Partition Master COPY. The backup drive is FULLY BOOTABLE, I've been booting into Windows 7 from an eSata external interface with no issues. It has a partition...

The last BSOD I had was when downloading Matlab(don't know if it's related). I'm attaching the .dmp file, but the problem is I don't think the most recent ones have been showing up; since I unchecked automatically restart under Startup and Recovery Settings the system freezes up and doesn't...

I bought a smallish but low priced 64GB SSD on SATA II. I have already changed over to AHCI successfully and initiated the TRIM command. I have a 640GB HDD. I have brought used space to below 59 GB(actual capacity of SSD). However when using Driveclone I cannot copy because it does not have...

At some point this morning, it seems one of my hard drives crashed, and with that went my O/S since it was installed on one of the partitions of that drive. Fine. All works out, I just reinstall windows. Wrong. When I put in the boot disk, I have a few problems. This first one, when I am in...

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hi i have installed win 7 on my laptop.wrking fine.bt some i m not able to boot win 7..when i tried to reinstall win 7 in hard disk it shows error that cannot be copied to source..not able to install in any of the drive..from repair option i have clean all the drive.and install the win 7 in c...

Hello. OK, this is not a Windows 7 related/caused problem, but as I am desperate for help and have received excellent help on this site in the past, I thought I might try anyway. When I started up my other PC this morning, it never got past the first screen, the one where I have a choice of...

Hi All, I NEED SOME HELP of course... I used BCD and fouled up my system... I went back to a clean disk and created a primary partition using the whole disk space ( I used GParted from a linux bootable USB)... I'm running linux now. Using Acronis I restored my C drive with the MBR to the...