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I recently got a new computer with W7. I am trying to use the Windows7 backup program. It works well. I just did a full system backup (image) to my external hard drive. I deleted a file and was able to bring back the individual file. NOW, I am not sure how to do future backups. I would like...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, this is my first time here. If this post is too long, I can try and condense it. I usually leave PC in sleep mode, last night was no exception. I am used to it occasionally turning itself back on every few days (not sure why) so no surprise to see...

Hello! I am having some serious issues with my computer! I have a Gateway with a Western Digital HDD. I do not know the specifics, but I could look them up if you could tell me where to look! I am good with computers - just not computer language, so bear with me! I installed Windows 7 32-bit...

Ok well my PC recently got a virus attack, I tried virus scans but nothing would work. It wouldn't even let me do a system restore. So the only option I had was a reformat, now i'm new to Windows7 and assumed it was similar to Windows XP where I could just put my disc in and it would reformat...

Hi We bought a new PC in January, and it's been fine until now. Suddenly last week we started having problems. Every now and then dialog boxes flicker when you try to click on them and you can't select any options. The same happened with the Start menu - the only way to turn the computer off...

I recently picked up a new laptop. It came with W7 Home Premium 64-bit on a single partition. I want to do one of two things: 1. Repartition the 500GB disk so the O/S and programs use 60-70GB and have the rest available for "data" - the problem is the W7 partition tool won't let me get this...

I had just done a critical update a few nights ago, and after rebooting my pc to finish installing, my reboot now takes 10-15 minutes. When the pc comes on and says ACER is where it sits the longest, and i dont think i can enter bios or change boot devices either, ive pressed and pressed the...

Have used my Ultimate Boot CD for WinXP to backup/restore WinXP laptops using the built in Driveimage XML v2.02 program. However, when I went to backup a new Thinkpad T410 Win7 PC I see there's a C: boot partition and a E: data partition. I've backed up both and tried to restore first E: and...

I want to format my computer (or not if i don't have to) and reinstall windows 7. I never created a system image and don't have recovery discs. Do i just insert the windows 7 disc and boot from the disc at start up? or do i have to format my computer first? If so how do so?

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...

Here's my problem. I downloaded Windows 7 from a special college deal for $30 I upgraded from vista, but it screwed up my computer. I would get blue screens at random times while I was using it. I decided to clean install instead, but then I realized the stupid file they gave me only works for...

Here's my problem. I downloaded Windows 7 from a special college deal for $30 I upgraded from vista, but it screwed up my computer. I would get blue screens at random times while I was using it. I decided to clean install instead, but then I realized the stupid file they gave me only works...

The other day my laptop would not start. It got to the black screen and would go no farther. I tried starting 2 or 3 times and gave up on a normal start. I put an Acronis boot disc in and it started. It has started successfully several times since then and it's running OK. In fact this post...

Clients netbook was fried (and just out of warranty). Normally, put in the O/S (dvd) or at least boot to the repair partition. But since the drive is "just about gone", it would be nice to try a CHKDSK and see if something is saveable (like the data and possibly the O/S still works?) Any...

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...

Hey there, When i first installed Windows 7 I had 3 RAIDs and I chose to install it on dev2. In that process win7 wrote the system / boot partition on dev0 and killed the header to that encrypted partition (even thought I did not select that device during the installation process). While I...

hello. i mounted an unbootable iso image via power iso and forgot about it when i rebooted my computer now when i try to boot into windows i cannot boot up because of a screen that sais "boot from cd_" failed solutions: pressing f8 to get to the safe mode options loading optimized defaults...

hi guys!!! i have a dell studio laptop 1737... its specs are 2.18 dual core intel.4gb ram,320gb hdd with sucker dvd rw drive... i have a problem,since the 1st day i bought it,it burns everything,but when i try to make bootable disk,it says the drive is in PIO mode n not in DMA or DAO mode and...

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: