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If you have visited my web page or read my blogs and messages, you'll probably know that I stongly discourage using partitions on a hard drive... mainly because if the partition table gets corrupt you lose EVERYTHING. However, check out this: Why it may be a GOOD idea to partition a drive...

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...

Hi, I'm using a VAIO VGN-CS36GJ laptop and I can't install Win7 on this machine. Once I use my bootable disc and goes to the installation of Win7, an error saying that "no device driver could be found" error always appears. I don't know how to deal with this. Any helps please on how I might...

Hi guys, i'm really hoping someone can help me out. I recently used the @bios utility from Gigabyte to update my motherboard bios. I've used this plenty of times in the past on Vista 64 bit with no problems. However this is the first time i've used it with Windows 7. It went through the usual...

Hello everyone. Running on AMD 64 Duo Core, nvidia 8600 GT, 4gb ram.. got it through dell with Vista 32 bit installed on it. Just graduated college, I got a copy of Windows 7 32-bit through my university's academic alliance. Burned a bootable disk and here we go: Steps taken to get to...

is it possible to install 7 on an external hard drive?

windows 7 is installed on a hp7700 machine...and works fine, but if i try RESTART it wont boot??? If i use shut down it goes down and stays off as it should, and if i power it on again it boots up and everything works. The only problem is when i try to restart...it goes down but somehow loses...

In restoring C: drive using TrueImage 2009, TrueImage encountered an error; so I restored an earlier version of C: which worked. Unfortunately, it didn't make C: active and bootable. Used the Win7 repair disk I created to fix the error; on the second use of Repair it made the 3rd partition on...

hello all, i hope i am posting this in the right place, i just sent off for my student version of windows 7, i am waiting for my confirmation email, i think i read somewhere on this forum( which i cant seem to find again ) that if you called up the microsoft store, they will send you a bootable...

My system was/is running XP Pro 32-bit. Just installed Windows 7 Professional 64. Installation went fine. Cleared partition C and did a regular install. BUT, I'd like to turn on AHCI, which I found instructions for, so I'm up for giving that a try. My concern is the other partitions on...

[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...

I have a problem. On my hard disk I have 2 OS's intstalled, Vista and Win 7. The win 7 partition is a 50GB logical drive. Vista is a primary partition. I want to get rid of the vista partition and extend win 7 to that now available space. Problem is, only Vista is marked as 'System' and i'm...

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...

An easier free solution for USB installs: When you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store, you have the option to download an ISO file or compressed files. The Windows 7 USB-DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a...

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...

What is W7 using the 100 mb system disk for? is it for recovery files? I know w7 can now make an actual restore image can you use this partition for that? just wondering

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...

I have windows 7 downloaded, i have burnt it to a bootable disc, and tryed installing it. Everytime it finishes expanding windows files, it restarts and just goes to BSOD with a STOP: 0x0000004e (0x00000099, 0x0004d3ff, 0x00000005, 0x00000001) message it says PFN_LIST_CORRUPT I have tried...

I want to get a clean install and reformat my hard drive. I guess when you load w7 from your desktop you do not have the option of reformatting. If you want to reformat I herd you have to boot from the cd. But I bought w7 through a download. I downloaded the pro 64 bit version. How do I make my...