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Greetings, I have an old Asus K52J that overheated and shut down some weeks back. After replacing the worn out fan and eventually the heat sink unit and copper tubing, I finally had it back up and running perfectly for several hours after being down for a few weeks. It was running perfectly...

Hello, I have a peculiar problem which I would like to solve with the help of software geniuses like u'll on such forums. HP dc7700 Small form factor desktop PC (about 6 yrs old) OS: Win XP Pro SP2 Bios version 02.10 C2D, 2Gigs RAM, Q045 963/965 board, E6600 processor, eSATA 80 GB Hitachi HDD...

I currently own a Lenovo (G50-30) Windows 8.1 laptop. I have noticed when the power button is pressed the only thing you see is: It appears for about 21 seconds then boots into windows. However, I wanted to be able to view the POST when it was booting up, but I couldn't find an option anywhere...

How do I get my laptop to boot again? I'm new to Windows 10 Technical Preview, Ubuntu, and dual-booting, but I was able to successfully set up dual-booting on my laptop by following the advice to install Windows 10 first, then Ubuntu 14.04 so that the latter OS’s boot-loader would be the...

Awhile ago I had a booting issue. Finally got to a point where my PC would boot, but noticed I totally 'lost' 1 of 3 1TB SATA drives I have installed PLUS a partition on my C drive is gone. About 1 week or two ago there were several updates to install. After rebooting my drive and partition...

Hello, I have Windows Vista installed on my computer. I am going to install Windows 10 64-Bit from a Flash Drive. When I boot from the flash drive to install windows 10, will it give me an option to partition the drive so I can keep Windows Vista? Thanks Geza

Hello, dear members and web travellers! I need some thoughts and tips on an issue with booting from a flash drive. Today I used the application WinToUsb to install a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit on a SanDisk thumbstick which uses a USB 3.0 connection. Now I want to boot from this stick...

This day was a lot of excitement for me since my main harddrive did not allow me to boot. Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help: - booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard - booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers - random...

my laptop is not booting properly. while installing window it shows it is lock first unlock it. and in diskpart there is only one drive ( disk 1) which has 22gb. but my laptop has 2 drive disk 0 which has the main window. but its not showing there.

How do I boot a DVD on this damn thing? When I power it up it shows the Lenovo logo for a few seconds then FreeDOS starts up, no BIOS screen, nothing.

I have this with my win 7 machine. Ione of my computers stops as it's being started. as it is coming up, in the upper right of the screen is: F1 setup...

Hello guys. I have a real problem that I dont know how to deal with. I try to reinstall windows on my Toshiba Satellite laptop from usb stick. I used Windows 7 USB DVD download tool for booting the usb flash stick. I tried both WIN 7 and WIN 8.1 installation. In bios I set the priority for USB...

It's not just your everyday slowness. I accidentally dropped my computer, not too violently or anything, and now it's having extreme lag. Even before you boot, it takes about 3 minutes just to wait for the safemode options screen after hitting F8. So far, it's taken 20 to actually load the...

I have a question. One related to hard drives, multiple windows os', and BIOS. I wont waste time. Here's my question. I have save data on my old hard drive (disk) that I need to retrieve that is in the Windows7 "My documents recognized by Windows 8.1 (Windows 8.1 is on my new SSD). I am...

Hey everyone, I'm trying to reinstall Windows 7 onto my Acer Aspire One 722.I made a bootable usb flashdrive and made sure that usb is the first one that boots up.The problem is that it's just a black screen with a white cursor.I've done this in the past before and never had this problem.Any...

Hey all, I'm new here I am using Compaq CQ Series notebook. I just copy some data from CD/DVD room a couple days ago, and next day when i start up my computer, there is eternal loading bar windows screen. I have try some effort to fix this : 1. I select "Last Known Good Configuration", and still...

I'm not skilled in repairing computers and I'm having a problem. My computer just won't start up. My fisrt problems starter three months ago,when the computer began to freeze while working with google chrome. After that, the windows 7 has been re-installed at least twice, but it did little help...

Hi, I've a Dell Inspiron Laptop with Windows 7, it usually completes booting (after loading all the start up softs) in 35-40 seconds, but few weeks back I gave my laptop for service (keyboard replacement due to a jammed key) and when I got it back it, It takes around 80-100 seconds to complete...

I have 1 TB HDD having w8 I have another 40GB HDD having w7. When 1 TB HDD is selected as first hdd to boot from, it doesn't boot. There is some error message right at the start and nothing proceeds. When 40 GB HDD is selected as first hdd to boot from, it duly proceeds to boot from w8, it...

Hi I don't know if this the right place to post this, so sorry if it is not. Well on to my problem, I have a dead hard drive in my Laptop and was wondering could i run Windows 7 or other Windows from a CD like you can with Linux, Linux is great for going on the web, but a little bit hard to run...