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This used to happen every other day but now it's gotten to a point where it's almost everytime I boot up. Upon powering on I'll get the option to use Startup Repair or to boot Windows normally, which can lead to a BSOD flashing for a split second and then restarting to the Starup Repair...

Hi guys, So I dual-booted Ubuntu on my laptop. I decided I didn't like it, then immediately bootrec.exe/fixmbr'ed from the windows 7 disc. now grub is gone, and windows 7 by default starts to boot. It boots normally, but about in 15 seconds into the 'Starting Windows' bootscreen, it just...

Hi Guys, After days of trying and failing i came across this site and am hoping someone can help me. My hard drive failed recently so i purchased a new external usb hard drive and got a copy of windows 7 iso. I followed some guides about making a new partition and making the drive active etc...

when my computer is booting up and comes to the logon screen, the logon screen comes on 3 times before I can enter my password. This is very annoying:mad:. It started doing it about 3 weeks ago and I have been looking for a fix since then. Can anyone help please?

Hello, I am having an interesting predicament with my Asus UL50VT Laptop I bought about 2.5 months ago. Just today, when I returned home from class I found my laptop with a black screen and a blinking cursor in the upper-left corner (like a command prompt). I could not type anything into it...

hi can you please help, after installing updates the other day i could not boot up keep getting disc error no system disc insert disc and press any key so i put the win 7 dvd in and hit enter i then get loading windows files but instead of the blue bow saying install, repair etc. it goes...

I recently just got a BIOS Checksum Error while trying to boot up, It wouldn't go away and got stuck in a loop. I opened up my rig and decided to see if it was my RAM as i felt the RAM could be causing some BSOD's aswell. Turns out that with both sticks in (DDR2 2gb Corsair DOMINATOR) It just...

I've been using Windows 7 64-bit on my Thinkpad X61 for several months without problem. (I am up to date with the released version of the OS). Recently, it started booting into very low resolution mode -- only about a quarter of the welcome screen is visible. Within this small view, the mouse...

I have XP Pro installed on my primary IDE drive (C:) I installed a SATA drive and installed 7 Ultimate to it as a dual boot system. XP sees the drive as E:. When booted in 7 it sees the drive as C: and the XP drive as D: I have downloaded, installed and configured the XP VM plus the patches. The...

Hey, I recently started getting the BSOD, I have no idea why. I always get the error message: SYMEFA64.SYS. I get the BSOD everytime I start up my computer, to go on it, I have to wait for it to occur, turn off my computer via holding power button, than when it restarts click "restart in safe...

Hi I have a little problem since 1 month. My Win7 is very very slow to boot, about 5 really minuts.. i don't know why because I use a ghost from november 2009 and the problem is still here. If i push F8 to see the options, and choose for example "enable boot logging" it starts normally and...

I recently got a new desktop and i put my copy of windows 7 on it. I also have it on my laptop and i cant install xp over it. i put in the install disc and it boots from it fine. Then it loads all the setup files and says that it cant continue because there is no hard disc attached to the...

I have a laptop with twin HDDs and I have Vista on the C: partition on Drive 1. I created a new partition G: on Drive 2 and, while Vista was running, inserted the Win 7 disc and started installation to G:. All went perfectly and I have retained my original partitions with drive letters and...

Hey guys how can i shut off that anoying pop up when you get to the desktop when booting?that welcome center...

Had Windows XP installed on an old Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB. Formatted the drive for a clean install from Windows 7 DVD Now I get this: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is...

So, I got a couple of brand new memmory sticks (yes, i went for memmory after all), and set them in the bios to 1066. It didn't ran stable, so I tried to improve the RAM timings in the bios. Seems it was a bad idea, since after that, my computer wouldn't boot. It does power on, all coolers seem...

hi guyss i want to know something...before i asked a Q that i want to make backtup of my pc C drive so i dun have to install OS just i run the backup...n many voted for acronis tre image software...i also found it on top ten reviews website...it was ranked much above... but there is still a...

I just built a new system and ive been having trouble booting the windows 7 cd....when i put the cd in a screen comes up and says "bootmgr missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart"

Hi, I have this little problem. When I started my computer yesterday it was awfully slow for some reason, but when I wanted to play a game it gave me the blue screen. This said that is was dumping the physical memory. When it was done my computer shut down by itself and tried to reboot, but...

Hi yesterday i had light out and my computer was off. I did the system repair with windows restore and I could start the windows again. Today I was using my computer just normally until there was a light out and my computer was off. When I turned my computer back on the windows error occured...