boot problems

I am trying to install XP Professional onto a friends laptop and I have caught a little snag. I installed it from the hard drive with a setup.exe. I went through the setup and it restarted a couple of times and I think I am done until after a restart I get a pop up saying...

hello everyone i really need help the other day i was looking in the registry to make a back up but before that i accidentally deleted wow6432node later on i restarted my laptop and it just hanged on the welcome screen and the welcome word dose not even show up some missed up letter do though...

I saw thread on similar problem and mentioned I need to make sure services.msc -> Virtual Disk Service (VDS) to automatic and started. I made this change and click the install again. The same message shown again. After message the VDS will stopped. I can restart and try install again. no luck...

Hi there, When I try to start the computer I athm asked if I want to do a full repair. When I choose this Windows blocks in the start up screen. I did not receive a CD with that computer. Can somebody give some advise? Thanks, T.

I have a 1TB hard drive divided into 2 partitions of 500GB each. On one partition I have installed windows 7, and on the other, windows vista. Several days ago I started getting a blue screen when trying to boot the windows 7 side. It occurs almost immediatedly after the splash screen. The...

Ok, so my computer has recently been locking up upon start-up, when the windows logo is flashing it will just freeze and require restart. The only way I've been able to remedy this is by doing a system repair or restore. Before I can get to these I must turn off my computer and unplug it for 15...

I just installed Windows 7 Home Professional and as soon as the boot screen ends, it just goes black. I can hear the system sounds and everything, though. Hell, I can login by putting my password in but after that, I'm as blind as a bat. Literally, I cannot see anything. 'Ctrl+Alt+Del' doesn't...

Hi, I am new to these forums and I have a bit of a problem: My Windows 7 system will not load the login screen. It shows the "Windows is Loading" screen and then goes black with the cursor being the only thing visible. Please help me out. I am using my Linux system right now and it would be...

Heya, I recently had this problem: Link Removed Its the exact same problem. The screen's power button blinks. I unplugged the computer and tested all connections and dedusted all fans. Everything works ok in safe mode. But I can't trust my computer to start up correct in normal mode. Does...

Well my problem began with a windows "critical update" which disabled my sound, I had to do a system restore everytime my computer shutdown, very annoying. Even after I told windows not to update it did. Eventually I ran out of restore points that my sound worked on. I decided to re-install the...

I tried to install WIN 7 to a NEW HD (clean install) since you cannot do a WIN XP upgrade install. I left my old C: drive (WIN XP) hooked up while I installed WIN 7 to the NEW drive. Afterward I decided that my computer is too slow to effectively run WIN 7 so I took the NEW drive out (WIN 7...

Hi there I have had seven installed on my laptop for quite a while now, and haven't had any problems until now. Recently it was abruptly shutdown by an accident, and now it wont do anything. It boots perfectly normally, but as soon as I do anything, the cursor turns into that blue ring...

My story: Thought I'd upgrade, did so; looked great, seemed to work well. Walked away, came back two hours later and the machine was off. It will not boot, power-up, etc. Totally unresponsive. Any clue? Please help!!!!! I need to work with this machine, not to mention game. :razz: I...

I have formatted and copied windows 7 to my 4GB USB key and I have installed a new HDD into my Dell Optiplex 745. When I boot up the computer I am notified with: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Existing Broadcom PXE ROM I have searched and found out that this can be caused by...

Well, unfortunately I have a serious problem. To go ahead and get this over with. I'm not sure what kind of drives they are..GParted failed to boot [ "BootMGR is missing"] Anyway to figure this out? I'm installing via USB, due to me not currently having the disc. The USB is bootable 100%...

Just got a new pc, so this is a fresh install. Since I have no dvd drive, I am installing the 64 version through usb. The installation goes perfectly fine but after it asks to reboot, it goes back to the same installation screen like nothing was installed. Any clues? Thanks.

Alright I have installed windows 7 32 bit not too long ago. It was a clean install. I have had quite a few starting problems. I turned it off either sleep mode or not I do not remember, but it had troubles starting. Only after turning off the power to the power supply (via switch on the back of...

Hi, I saw this title in the Vista install section, but there didn't seem to be any solution, so I'm asking again here. I'm attempting to install Windows 7 64-bit dual booting with XP 32-bit. XP is on its own partition, and I'm installing Windows 7 on a separate hard-drive anyway, so that won't...

I have been trying to do a clean install all day for windows 7 and I get to the point where it is formatting registry files and then it goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor and Im stuck please help.

I hate Vista. The only reson i put it on my mates computer is because I was gonna upgrade it to 7. So I put it on and now it doesnt pick up and Externall HDD/USB's, it says it cannot find the driver. It takes forever to load things and it doesnt load the account all together on other than 2...