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Hi all Guru's...finally decided to have a look and tried to install Win8 on a Virtual Disk (VHD) using Windows 7 disk management and following the instructions show here Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) - Scott Hanselman despite being...

So I recently used driver genius to update my drivers and my PC started having problems. At first it would need to be restarted a few times to even get to the windows logo and on the 3-4th restart the Blue screen would show up for a split second (too fast for me to read). I updated my PC...

hi, when I turn on my pc I get the follolwing error message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" Can someone please help me? Many thanks in advance, Graham

My computer is currently stuck on a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left hand corner. I tried rebooting from a bootable disk and from a bootable flash drive and neither one worked. My machine is an HP Pavilion Elite HPE-110f. I am running on the 64 bit version. Has anyone run into...

Hey everyone, I was in the middle of writing this when it happened again, so I'm keeping it brief. As the title says. Every other time. It's happened a total of 6 times now, and for some reason I cannot add the 4th, 5th, or 6th .dmp files to a .zip, or upload them, or anything similar. "Not...

hi, i'm new to the forum so please forgive me if this cover else where. basically i installed windows 7 to my pc and for a while i was running twin OS's. XP and Win7 on separate hard drives. this caused no issues but i have since removed XP but i don't know how to remove the boot selector...

Hi, I had windows 7 and i installed red hat linux by creating a partition. When ever i boot the linux is the default OS which will come up unless i dont select the windows 7 manually. Now i wanted to remove the Linux so i removed the partition from windows. After reboot i see GRUB.Can you let me...

Hello, My problem is a weird one, often (but far from always) when I start up my PC, at the bios screen when it's still booting, it suddenly starts making these horribly loud beeping noises. The only way to stop them, is to hold down either mouse-key's, but this doesn't work for more than a few...

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Hi All, Let me just start by saying, ARGGHGHGH; lol. I have had an expensive time with my computer recently but i am now beyond the brink and turning the tide of war to my favour. I have recently kitted my ailing PC out with a new SSD for the OS install. This is working great; i have just...

Hi I've been trying all day to post on the Windows 8 forum. I can log in to the forum OK, but when I try and post I get the you have to activate message. When I tell it to send my an Activation Message I don't receive one. I've tried a number of times and waited but no message. My log in and...

Compaq Presario CQ62-215DX Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Warranty ended last month. This has happened many times, but has easily been resolved after changing the boot order in the BIOS. Each time, my computer crashes and I have to manually turn it off with the power button. After...

I have to Thank whoosh for reminding me of this one. I was booting up my computer the other day and the screen told me to press any key........I still can't find it!

I installed Fedora on my system preinstalled with windows 7. Now during booting Windows 7 is not appearing. It is only showing Fedora. But it should show both the os and allow us to choose. Help me to resolve this. Thanks in advance.

Hi,Everyone Earlier today I installed Anti Trojan Elet Program, then restarted my computer as it said, it then failed to boot up, showed a black screen for a few second then a blue error screen, I put her image attachments . Screen also showed up when I tried booting in safe mode. I'd try system...

For several days I have been trying to repair issues w/ my Toshiba laptop, that just started happening suddenly. With lots of reading, I've been able to bring the computer back from only booting into safe mode. Now with normal boot it takes up to 20 min. to fully boot. Then once everything...

Is there any differences between installing a Win 7 by DVD, you boot it by DVD (restarts, then you start installing it etc) vs opening the iso right away from My Computer and no restart/booting Thanks, FelDer

I accidentaly tripped over my laptop cord while booting. The computer was not harmed, but the adapter unpluged from the laptop and the laptop lost power while booting. Timeline of events: 1) I tripped over the cord 2) laptop lost power while booting up 3) I pluged the laptop back in 4) I...

I'm doing a Windows 7 tutorial. In it I'm imaging a Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I rebooted the VM and booted from my physical WinPE CD. The book SPTK 70-680 (Ian McLean) gives pretty good instructions but I have different drive letters than what’s in the book. The book says to enter...

Erm not sure how to word this problem, The best i can describe it as is a crash. I upgraded my PC from windows XP to windows 7. The new install went fine how ever, About half the time i restart the PC or Boot up from new it loads up to the Desktop and thats it. I dont get a windows Toolbar, I...