boot sequence

Well I am having an issue. The instruction manual says to put the disc in the optical drive and I did so. It then read the disc, and showed up empty. Vista wouldn't read the disc at all. So I then went and restarted my computer, into my BIOS, switched the boot sequence order to optical drive...

Please help upgrading from xp to windows 7 almost complete when blue screen of death appeared. So computer shut down on reboot message appeared system shut down suddenly please insert disc to continue install. Nothing happened each time i inserted disc it was a continual loop of the same...

So I built a new pc and just installed Windows 7. The installation appears to have gone well, but I'm encountering the following issue: when starting up, windows goes to a screen with a desktop backdrop (the minimalist one with the bird and leafs, if that is of any importance) and it says...

I have oem Xp pro sp2 cd, im running W7, want to install XP to a seperate partition I have installed it thru boot cd sequence(i tried running XP from inside w7, but the menu had install Windows XP greyed out:confused:), but now have no boot screen How can i install xp pro with dual boot...

Alright I installed windows 7 beta a few days after the beta came out and i had a problem with my c drive that had Windows XP on which i just desided to install a new hard drive and put XP back on it well i forgot to plug my 2 second hard drive in that had Windows 7 beta on it (the reason why it...

I have a SATA Raid setup that I don't want to mess with. I added a seperate IDE hard drive that I am going to install Windows 7 on. I tried to install Windows with the IDE set up as a slave. This did not work. I then disconnected the SATA setup and set the IDE jumpers to master. The install is...

When I wake up my computer from hibernation at some point during the boot sequence there is a black screen with three bands of pixelated colors. The computer works fine after it gets going, but there is this glitch. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Thanks

I've ahd Windows XP installed for a long time but I wanted to give a try to Windows 7 so I did. I really like it so I decided to completely remove my XP beacause I wasn't using it anymore. I used Gparted to delete my XP partition and move/enlarge my Windows 7 one. Everything went fine this...

Hi, i've got xp and win7 on dual boot on 2 partitions on 1 hd and now want to add vista 64bit to play about with, would the boot sequence be screwed up as vista probably wouldn't recognise win7 with it being newer than vista. or would installing it on a seperate hd completely be a better idea...

Days ago, restarting after Windows Updates, the system went to black screen with the error message "boot disk failure...".After several steps for troubleshooting checks in the motherboard BIOS, by luck discovered that the system will boot it up normally, if the Windows Setup DVD is in the DVD...

I have new HP desktop that came with Vista Premium preinstalled. I do not have a vista instalation disk because Hp does not give them out but insteaad allows you to reinstal from a partitioned space on C drive where HP have supposingly copied the Vista operating system disk files. How the hell...

I have a ASUS Striker extreme mobo with an intel 2.4GH quad core processor(6600 i think). I also have a nvidia gforce 8800GTX pci-e card and a 74GB(clean) SATA hard drive installed. I have 2GB of DDR2 800MH(which is compatible with mobo) RAM installed as well. also, 700WATT PSU. I have a cdrom...