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hi This is shakil. i am using Acer aspire 5745 laptop. But recently i have a problem with it. When i start my laptop the following message appears- Edit Boot Options Edit Windows Boot Options for: Windows 7 path: \windows\system32\winload.exe Partition:2 Hard disk : 5a6f94e1 [/NO...

Hi all, I own a copy of W7U, and when i boot get offered the option of; 1 : Earlier version of Windows 2 : Windows 7 3 : Recovery Console I would be very grateful if someone could tell me if i need to install a P.E. as it seems to me that i have this option in the recovery console? If i ever...

how can i load win 8 to a partition other than c? i want to load it as a dual boot, and don't want to load it over my win 7. so why doesn't it give me this option? surely these guys didn't think everyone would load it on their c drive, did they?

I upgraded my Acer 5100 x86 from Vista to Win 7. I do have Vista recovery discs, however I was checking to see if I could recover the laptop to Windows 7 by using Alt/F10. Actually I was just trying to see if Alt/F10 worked at all and what I found after the Windows 7 upgrade was that I got...

Hi everyone. I'm running Windows 7 professional. I need to boot into safe mode, and I would like to be able to switch the input language to my native Greek. Is there a way to do this in safe mode? (I know how to do it in unsafe mode :)). The option does not appear anywhere in the control panel...

hi all. wonder if someone can offer advice please? atm i dual boot XP and windows 7 Ultimate (full retail, not OEM). i want to remove 7 from my machine so i can install it on a new machine. have read various posts how to do that, but the posts are all old and a bit of messing about involved. i...

I've discovered this a.m. that I can't access Safe Mode through the normal F8. I used to listen to the post beep and then press F8 once and I'd be straight in. Now pushing F8 once or repeatedly tapping F8 just carries on to the normal boot. What have I changed recently? Well, I removed Windows...

Hi, I have a Windows 8 Dev. Preview, I burned it on DVD and Installed it, the Win8 is installed on the C partion (without asking me which partion to install on) which has my original Win7, Since both of them are Win I thought that Win8 will give the choice of which to boot Win 8 or 7, it did but...

This is how to Fix Windows 7 BSOD. Restart the computer and keep pressing F8 until the "Advance Boot Options" menu comes up. Use up and down arrow buttons to navigate the menu, select "Safe Mode" and hit Enter This time you won't see the computer blue screen error. When the welcome screen...

As stated. There is a problem with my GF's windows 7 DELL laptop. When you turn it on, the black screen with white text comes up, with start windows normally or repair windows. Both send you to the LOGIN screen, but there is no LOGIN box. It is just a background of the LOGIN page, you CAN...

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pc crashed now i go to boot up and it goes to 'edit boot options path: windows\sys 32\winload\.exe partition 3 hard disk: 3______a [ /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN[] ]' What do i put here??????? Or what do i do now????? NEVERMIND THAT Now it just goes to BOOTMGR missing press control,alt, delete to...

Hello. I am considering adding a dual boot to my laptop and am hoping for some step by step instruction. I want to maintain my primary OS on primary drive C adopt dual boot have second OS reside on USB key or USB external drive. Normal use I would boot from my primary drive When...

When W7 was still in evaluation mode, I did a dual boot thing on one of my XP boxes. Later, I bought W7 and installed it on it's very own computer. Now, I have an XP system that BY DEFAULT tries to boot into Windows 7. Which is no longer there. I don't MIND the dual boot questions that...

Hi Friend, I hope you will be able to resolved this issue which I have described below, I am really upset because of this issue so I want the experts help on the same. My Issue: I have window 2003 server in my one drive and window 7 in the another drive. At the starting days I just have...

Hello, I'm new to this forum and I hope I will not break rules in my first post. Some days ago I got a problem with my laptop. As first, my laptop crashed on the floor, while Windows 7 was running. But nothing happend, only started to run slowly. Some programs were not responding and I decided...

Australian company Evolve III announced an Intel Atom-powered tablet that can be booted into Windows 7, Android, or the MeeGo version of Linux. Link Removed - Invalid URL

I had Windows XP on one of my laptops and installed Windows 7 on a seperate partition to see how it would cope. Well.... it doesn't cope at all. I have the dual boot screen when I start the laptop and the default is of course the last O/S system loaded. i.e. Windows 7. Unless I am quick enough...

I've checked online and I could not find anything that related to my problem. I tried to fix it via win 7 cd, but still the same problem. When I go to boot up I get an error message (just after boot from CD option appears that reads XCKVR is compressed. press control-alt-delete to restart. Any...