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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...

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I have an ASUS X58L with Windows 7 Professional, a downloaded student copy. The issue originates from me installing Ubuntu and on installing updates and restarting I found myself with "grub rescue no such device". After attempting several 'solutions' from pages such as these: Google I am now...

I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD, itself in a new system which contains old HDDs. My homemade Tyan Tiger server/ workstation works it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick Windows 7 from...

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...

Hello im hoping someone can help me. I was cloning a Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit install HDD on my HP Laptop and when it was done i removed the usb without safley removing it in the system tray. Now when i boot up (with the original HDD) i get an error: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or...

Hi! My father's computer been broken and he thought it was a virus attack. The problem is that it won't boot even though I tried all the choices (safe mode, boot from last good configuration,etc.). None of them worked. It kept repeating and repeating. It's an upgraded version from Windows XP...

I don't know whether this is the right place to ask this question but here goes: I've installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a notebook which previously ran Vista. No problems there ..... I've now installed Ubuntu (now updated to 10.04) so that it can boot to either OS. It all works fine and when I...

Hey guys, I've been trying to fix this myself but with no luck. Maybe you can give me some tips? I think it is a hardware issue which I have little to no experience with. It all started when I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 x64 from my Vista x64. I had nothing of importance on the computer...

On my computer I have 3 primary partitions: 1. "System reserve" which contains e.g.the Bootmamanger and MBR 2. First Win 7 installation ("main") 3. Second Win 7 installation ("reserve") When I boot now at first the Bootmanager on the first primary partition is called/started which in...

My computer suddenly, and for the first time since i got win7(x64) in nov 09, BSoD'd on me. My bios wont recognize the drive (OCZ vertex SSD) anymore, and when i loaded win7 repair disk and it wont recognize it either. I then loaded win7 onto another disk and put the problem disk on as a...

Windows 7 Professional (MSDN) Windows 7 is currently installed on the PC in question. It is running and working. But, I am trying to format and reinstall via the Windows 7 disk. I put the Windows 7 disk in the CD-ROM tray, close it, and restart the computer. I enter the boot selection screen...

Hello, My computer contracted the AntiMalware Doctor/Spyware Suite trojan several days ago. I was able to remove the majority of it, but upon booting AND connecting to the internet I would receive the following message: "Windows has encounterd a critical error and will restart in 1 minute."...

i found a way to edit the bootres.dll AKA the Windows 7 boot flag BUT modifing the bootres creates a [data-1] partition in the dll this contains info saying that the certificate is NOT VALID anymore i hex edited out this data contained in the partition but the partition remains there...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...

I have a brand new hard disk on which I would like to install Windows 7 (Enterprise Edition). Unlike many whose posts I've read I actually want to install the OS to a drive other than C, let's say drive L, and I need some help in order to accomplish this. Up through Windows XP the following...

Hi, I have upgraded to Windows 7 and now when I start the PC I have to chose which OS to start with. However when I enter the msconfig file in the Boot tab only the windows7 is listed! Any idea how I avoid the need to chose during PC startup which OS to run? Thanks

My system currently dual boots with Windows 7 RC (obviously the trial has ended so the system shuts down every 2 hours) and XP, with 7RC being the primary OS. I want to remove both operating systems and have my full copy of Win7 as the only OS. The last time I tried to install a single OS over...

Hi everyone, I have a small problem. I have tried linux and I don't know how but it created some files with names like "00:01:36,889". I decided to stay on windows so I deleted linux but now I don't see a way how to delete this files with windows. I tried to delete them with explorer even in...