boot issue

I've done a lot of searching on this issue, found several articles, tried some solutions: Nothing works. The Windows Time service just fails to start at boot. It doesn't produce an error in the event logs; it just fails to start. But I can manually start it from Services. Or I can manually...

Hello all. I'm posting on behalf of my boyfriend, obviously his laptop is unable to boot so I've been trying to gather as much information as I can so that I can try to figure out what he can do to fix it. Thanks in advance for your help. Alright, so from what I've been able to gather, his...

Hi there, I'm really in need of some help with my Windows 8. When I installed my Windows XP, for some reason my Windows 8 moved to E: Partition, when it previously was on C: Partition, now C: Partition is a System Reserved partition. Now what I want to know, is moving my Windows 8/E: Files to...

Hello fellow Microsoft community,i have a Toshiba l355 and recently when i turned on my laptop a screen has popped up saying operating system not found and i would like to know is there anything i can do to fix this,and if so can i kept the stuff or retrieve it. Thanks in advance and sorry if i...

Hello All, Windows 8.1 having a little issue in that the system boots up to splash screen then abrupty reboots again and all is fine. I had the same thing happen with the install of win 8 originally, went into bios and changed the quick boot option and it fixed the problem. Now with win8.1 the...

Hi, so I've been enjoying windows 7 on a computer I built about half a year ago. However, recently I decided to invest in a new HDD (this one is ssd) as well as a new gpu. I tested and installed the 64bit home premium os at my friends house on his computer which seemed to boot perfectly. When I...

i had a laptop that was working fine but when i restarted it show the samsung logo but then goes black i tried to restore from usb and disk but it doesnt show in bios settings when i try to change the bios settings in the bios boot order it only shows windows boot manager that it nothing else is...

Hi All All of a sudden last month after the Win 8 startup when i click the desktop icon the startup programs start at that time every time one notepad opens up stating the b/m message. " [.ShellClassInfo]LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787 " Can you plese tell...

Hello, So this is a bit of an interesting situation that is a tad long and I think it is best to start from the beginning. It started when I received this error when running with my Seagate HDD: Link Removed I got a new 1TB WD Black and used Acronis True Image to clone my Seagate on to my new...

Recently managed to brick my computer by trying to clear up some space on my C: drive. I checked 'Compress Drive'. The problem is when I boot up my laptop it goes straight to a blank screen with the following: WIDTM is compressed. Press ctrl+alt-del to restart. I can't access safe mode. I can...

So, after 3 days of frustration to get the Tux for TF2, I very stupidly uninstalled Ubuntu incorrectly, the result was no longer being able to boot Windows 7. I receive a BSOD after the Starting Windows screen. After some googling, it appeared my Master Boot Record was corrupt. I followed all...

This happens about 33% of the time when I boot up my computer: All the lights come on, all the fan start up, and then I wait for the screen to turn on but it never does. I look down and see that my RAM didn't start (I can tell because it is Ballistix Tactical Tracer and has lights). I reset...

I just changed out my MB and now have a MSI- B75MA-P45 board. Since doing that I have trouble the first time I go to start up in the morning. When I turn my computer on my monitor is just a blackscreen. If I manually shut down and then restart everything works. During the day you can shutdown...

hi i recently built me a new computer installed everything SaberTooth 990fx R2.0 mobo and 32gb of corsair memory windows 7 64bit everything was working fine till i decided to bios update then after successfully doing soo my computer would not load windows it would say the boot drive is...

I have recently updated my GE Force GT 220 drivers to 310.90 from 306.23. Now, the Nvidia Corporation Folder (3D Vision Folder) is empty. This is the first instance of having an empty folder upon any update from Nvidia. Can I delete this "empty" folder, or should I leave it for further updates...

Hi all, I have this weird issue with my windows 7. The security centre service and the Windows Firewall are always on disabled status after each boot. The start-up type is Automatic for both of them but it won't stick after a boot has been placed. Please help me solve this issue. Thanks...

Hi Guys, I have a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro on a new PC and have done for some weeks. On Friday i hit the shutdown option Update and Restart. On the Saturday (yesterday) I turned on my machine to greeted with the Windows 8 Logo then a blank screen and doesn't boot at all into Windows...

Windows 7 wont boot, says NTLDR is missing on startup... So I recently upgraded from windows xp to windows7, I went about installing well the wrong way. I Installed windows 7 from the downloaded file onto a empty hard drive I had attached to my computer. I did this all while xp was still...

I'm having trouble with my very new computer (Lenovo Y480 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit), which I've narrowed down to the following sequence: 1. I restored computer to original factory settings (to rule out possible causes) 2. I ran msconfig, and checked the boxes 'Safe Mode' and...

Hi everyone. Im new here and i need your help. I bought 2 new motherboards and having troubble on both machines with same error. The motherboards are Asus Maximus V Extreme I keep struggelin with pc freezes at boot. Saw on the %SystemRoot%\Minidump that its a NTOSKRNL.exe file or driver that...