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can someone help me? what will happen if the partition containing my windows XP is changed from FAT32 to NTFS,? will it damage my system? or will i still be able to boot it normally? btw my reason for changing my partition's type is i want to install windows 7 on it . but windwos 7 can only be...

I am building my first custom pc and I am trying to install windows onto it using and official windows ISO. When I plug in my usb the error 0xc000000f occurs. I can't follow what it says as I can't even see that when I plug in. This is the first screen I see: Can you help me? Windows failed to...

I inherited a Toshiba laptop from a recently deceased relative. It had a BIOS password which I was able to remove but still has a password listed as a HDD1/SSD1 password. I read the post by Mike Fara titled "Resetting Windows Passwords." I downloaded the repair program but could not get the...

My recovery partition is in this current state and does not allow me to boot from it. Help?

A little odd, but maybe someone here can help :D If i have any drives hooked up via sata cable, the computer wont boot from disk. If I have no HDD hooked up, it will. I am using a GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2p motherboard with a amd 6 core 1045t. I truly appreciate any help, thank you again.

Hey guy's im trying to figure out my body's PC.. his keyboard works cause on boot i go in bios and can use the keyboard to navigate.but as soon as the PC boots the keyboard does not work any more.. need to use virtual keyboard.. i have tried a few keyboards with the same issue??? any clue why??

I get this message during boot. If I click on "Enter", the boot continues normally. I also have lost the System Tray icon which allows you to disconnect external hardware safely. I've tried the bootrec command but it does nothing to fix the problems.

When I boot the pc (or get out of sleep mode) I want to see the login screen, like on win 7. I don;t want to see that multicolourfull lollipop screen which you need to click again to get to the login screen. How to skip the splashscreen on boot?

i had windows 7 and i install windows 8 also i was choose from the both and they was good .. but i install windows 7 again in c:/ and it's working but i cant choose from it and windows 8 so windows 8 is disappeared but it's already in e:/ but i can't go to it my laptop go to windows 7...

One night, I shut down my computer to install Windows Updates overnight. When I tried to start Windows the next morning, I got a BSOD when attempting to boot. As soon as the "Starting Windows" logo appears, I immediately get thrown into a BSOD, which hardly lists any information even for BSOD...

I inherited a computer running Windows 7, System Manufacturer HP-Pavilion System Model KZ854AV-ABA m9300t While it runs fine the startup/bootup is messed up. I turn the computer on and it goes the the HP logo and options screen as if I had hit the key to select boot/startup options. While...

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Hello, I am having a BSOD issue, a few days ago it started. I leave my computer in sleep mode over night, and when i boot up, my internet seems to slowly stop working over a 10 minute period then going completely, and I get a power state failure. I have Updated my GPU drivers and removed...

Since I replaced the motherboard on my IBM ThinkCentre, I'm getting some odd error messages on the BIOS preboot screens. First, it mentions that a processor BIOS wasn't found and a configuration change error. On the next screen titled as in this post's title above, it shows indications of it...

Hi everyone, I like to keep my comp to boot up as clean as possible. I have a problem whenever I remove acrotray or itunes serviecs in Start up. I already remove it from MSCONFIG. The problem is the next time I log in, it will generate a second acrotray startup. This second item will be...

Microsoft has relinquished its previous statements that it would not provide Windows 8.1 RTM to developers on MSDN or Technet and has since published the following versions on both services. The final RTM version, a major update which includes numerous bug fixes and improvements to genuine...

I am working on a HP Pavilion TX 1120us for a friend. He gave it to me and said that it has been acting up for a while and now won't start at all. It turns on and the fans start but there is no attempt at booting. Could this be the CMOS battery or something more dire?

my machine is bootable and WIN7 starts without any problems. My Problem is I'd like create "System Reserved" to boot from this partition using F8 key and "Repair your computer" instead of booting from the CD boot disk. I've already tried to boot with a Windows Repair CD, I've done "Startup...

Guys I'm having this BSOD every time my computer is rebooted, not sure about the cause, if anyone could tell me what is making my server crashing on every restart I will really appreciate it.

Eee PC 1025c Windows 7 starter + Ubuntu 10.04 Yesterday the notebook was working properly. I turned it off the way it's written in the books and everything seemed OK. But this morning when I tried to power it up, the Asus logo appeared, then Atheros boot agent, Asus logo again, and finally...