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i made some registry permissions changes (on HKLM) trying to correct an Office 2010 error. got a BSOD and now am getting said Blue Screen just after Win7 starts loading. i'm able to boot into an alternate Vista install on C:. 7 is on D:... my Win7 boot disk says 'couldn't find NTLDR, which...

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 just loaded 7 two days ago on my 4 year old Dell Inspirion 9300 laptop that was running XP. I upgraded this laptop from the original 60Gb HD to a new WD 320Gb HD. Durin the last day or so, I've been having a blast getting it all set up, solving many errors on my own until this morning. I came...

Hi, I recently purcchased an OEM version of Windows 7 Ultimate for my desktop. I did a complete erase of my computer and set the boot for the DVD-ROM. It did not recognize there is a DVD in it for some reason. I checked the Windows DVD and it works fine on my laptop so this is not the...

I have been through this three times and have to reinstall XP after installation fails every time. I am trying to upgrade using a student version Win 7 64 Ultimate DVD, the XP is home version. I boot from DVD and do the custom bit and it starts to install. It hangs during preparing to...

I did a Windows 7 "full install" onto my Gigabyte MB RAID equipped quad core 64bit system. "Nominally" all went to completion without any problem whatsoever. The only problem I have is when I boot up. 1) If I boot up WITHOUT the Win7 64bit install disk in the drive, I get an error message...

Hi guys Last night, while my download manager was set to shutdown after all complete and at 02 am, shutdown occured. But today, it always gives that BSOD with stop: 0x0000007E at the boot up. I cant even start the safe mode, it always restarts in the bootup sequence. Windows7 startup repair...

ok so at a certain point during the install i get an error saying that it can not change to boot order and can not be installed....any one know how i can get passed this so i can get windows 7 on my gaming pc and kill the red headed bastard child of vista

Hello All, I had XP Pro installed on one drive then I installed Win 7x64 on another. After setting up 7 without any hassles I rebooted and received this error: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check...

Last night my computer froze and gave me a BSOD, and when I tried to simply restart it, it would get to the windows splash screen and BSOD again. Then after trying a few things to fix it, its giving me the 'Reboot and select proper boot device etc'. Ive checked Link Removed and it is showing my...

Hello, I am currently facing a very pesky problem. I am using the MSDN version of Windows 7 Professional downloaded from my college's IT program. I am unable to boot windows 7 without my CD inserted. If I take it out, I am greeted with an error along the lines: Windows could not find a...

hi, im using win7 RC since 2 months now... and never faced any problems but suddenly yesterday some programs like firefox, utorrent, etc. started acting up and i now get an error on boot up and i cant see my desktop icons at all.. see attachment for error msg on boot otherwise its working...

A whole medley of problems - URGENT Well, i'm not even sure what's happening here, but it seems to be an OS problem. I closed my laptop, putting it into sleep mode, and when i opened it back up, it wouldn't boot back up into the operating system. I turned it off, turned it back on, and got a...

Hello, I recently used GParted to shrink my XP and Win7 partitions so that I could create a third partition. Since I had some extra space inbetween the shrunk partitions, I moved the Win7 partition as close as I could to the XP partition. I basically moved my partition over a little bit...

After using GPart to set up two partitions and installing Windows 7 RC1 everything works well in 7. However, when I attempt boot to XP I get the following error, "(windows root)\system32\hall.dll is missing or corrupt." and the system halts. My research indicates this may be a problem with the...

HELP! My laptop battery died so went into hibernation automatically and tuned off. I turn it back on and all I get is a black screen saying: Okay I tried the steps but my laptop isn't picking up the disc. Its a samsung r60+ laptop running windows 7 7048? I think Please help, I have no idea...

Hi, I am currently dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu intrepid. Everything was working fine until I attempted to install the cisco VPN (vista version) the computer froze during the installation so i had to to a hard reboot. After rebooting I get an a message saying that the computer was not...

I had Windows 7 installed and operating perfectly for over a month but I accidentally deleted it. I have a Dell XPS 630i with 4Gig ram which I purchase less than 6 month ago. I have three hard drives. XP Pro is on disk 1, Vista is on disk 2 and I have Microsoft Server 2008 on disk 3 partition...

Hello, new to this forum. I hope someone can help. I have been trying to install Windows 7 Beta onto an AMD machine and continously get a Winload.exe error. The error read as such: "\windows\system32\boot\winload.exe" "Status: 0xc0000098" "The selected entry could not be loaded because the...

Trying to install W7 on a PC running Vista. When I try to boot from the DVD I get the message CDROM cannot boot Code 5. Thinking the media must be bad I tried it on another PC and it boots fine. I tried a Vista DVD in the original (failing) PC and it boots fine? Any ideas please? Should have...