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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 used Paragon Partition Manager 11 to make a clone of my "C" boot drive. "C" is the HDD in position 0. The clone is in position 1, which prior to the clone operation was "D". I am sure that if I removed HDD 0 and replaced it with HDD 1, the system would boot to Windows 7. (I have done this on...

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 all! I had my laptop running last night and I woke up this morning and my computer was frozen. It wasn't the "blue screen of death" as many mention as it was simply frozen but when I turned it back on (and continue to turn it back on) it gets stuck on "Starting Windows" without even...

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...

I just burnt the latest Mint Linux 64 Bit to a DVD. I have 4 internal hard drives, C: contains W7 64 bit D has vista 32 bit Drives E and F store backups of Vista and W7 dual boot configuration. I also have a 1 TB Hitachi external drive a 1TB Seagate Drive on which I could move my backups. If I...

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...

I am trying to install windows 7 ultimate x64 on a new build, I am getting the error in thread title when it begins to install. I've scoured this forum to see what others had similar issues and tried the fixes. I tried with one stick of ram, tried re-burning the iso, i've used 3 different discs...

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...

Hello guys Hope you can help me with this, because I really need to get my Server 2003 running, as that is working platform (need it for my job). I had three operating systems in my computer: Ubunt, Win XP and Win Server 2003. Grub was the booting program, that offers you go to Windows...

Hey everybody, just encountered what i think may be a boot sector trojan virus. Im running windows 7 on a sony vaio and can only get into the BIOs system (version R0200Z5). Im unable to boot into anything (normal mode, safe mode, system restore points) when trying, my comp just...

Hi all, copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i...

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...

I'm changing computers with different OS, windows xp Home to Windows 7 . I need to put a string into the BCDedit to change my boot at startup. In Windows xp I had in the boot.ini [boot loader]| timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows [operating systems]...

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...