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Hello, I am trying to install Win 7 on my laptop running Win 8 so I can get a dual boot. My laptop does not recognize win 7 booting cd .I had to change Bios to Legacy. Now ,I am getting error “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is not of the GPT partition style. Any...

Assume I want to check the partition NTFS integrity of a Win 7 system from a BootCD with WinXP. Is this possible? Or is the WinXP chkdsk utility outdated and NOT usable for Win 7 NTFS systems? Peter

Some time ago I tried out the hidden folder tool Winmend Folder Hidden free available from here: Link Removed I uninstalled it later. Now I found out that this tool installed silently a strange empty folder in root directory of each partition: C:\Winmend~Folder~Hidden\...\...\cn\ Mind the...

Guys. I'm in need of help. I never had anything happen like this before... I was updating Mech Warrior Online on the computer and I realized it locked up. I couldn't force close it, so I restarted the computer. I then realized windows was stuck on the boot image (the blue window with the thing...

I'm using windows 8.1 suddenly my laptop shut down... When I restart my laptop it didn't switch on. I used windows 8.1 boot cd and checked c drive is not responding. I'm also tried in cmd c: it just not responding it just freezing the command prompt whereas i can get into d: & e:. I just had...

My Grandson gave me his old laptop, an Acer Aspire 5750. He can't remember his password to the administrator so I can't download and run any new programs. I can use the PC as a "user" but I want to update several programs. I previously got help here and then I put in a new keyboard and tried his...

Hello. I have windows 7 ultimate 32 I got problem when i downloaded Spyhunter and after i did what it asked me and restarted my pc. My computer came to a place call "grub>" . Every time i reboot my pc i came. To the same place. After some serching i did something real STUPID. when i came to...

Hi! I'm new here. My name is John Todd. How are you? I apologize if this has been covered already. I tried the search and browsed a lot but couldn't find the answer. I think it is because I don't quite know what to ask for. Here is my problem: I need to re-image my main C:. I'm running...

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...

My notebook has a Win 8 OEM key in UEFI. After wiping my hard disc I want to install Win 8 retail instead of OEM version. Because this is not possible with stored OEM Win 8 key I want to boot with a Win 7 BootCD and patch the UEFI with a Win 8 retail serial key. For that I need a Program...

Hi everyone, I have been reading through many forums online, with many different solutions to this problem, and I have tried some of them, however I am still stuck with the same error. It might be helpful if I tell the whole story about the hard drives I am trying to boot. To begin with,my...

Hello, I've had an ongoing war with my PC for four days now. I have Windows 7 and it refuses to start up. Originally I tried starting up normal, it gave me two choices: system repair or start as normal. If I chose normal it would show the windows logo then reset. If I chose repair it would turn...

windows 7 wont boot from cd, my operating system wont load, computer wont load windows 7, computer doesnt start the operating system, computer wont boot any other os,it show launch repair,if we started the repair and after the completion same problem again..i am bored please any one tell me...

I have wrecked my wifes' laptop, so you can guess just how much trouble I am in. I turned the laptop off by holding the power on button depressed for as long as it took to power down. I have done this many times before. This time the laptop will not start windows after power up. Win 7 offers 2...

I have Window 7 Home Premium Installed on My HP Pavilion Dv6 i5 Notebook. I have only 1 Partition. I want to Install another Window and thats why i want to Make Another Partition for it (I Know About Shrinking of Drive but i won't do it because it make the shrinked Partition Dynamic, Which...

Hi, I have been trying to install Ubuntu in my lappie..unfortunately the process got aborted during the boot loader installation. Now am trying to un install it completely and trying to install windows 7 on my PC. But i get error when windows 7 installation kit is trying to "Expand windows...

My computer froze so I was forced to shutdown by holding the button for 8 seconds. When I started the computer I got a boot error, I thought great!! I have had a similar problem before so I figured partition table might be broken. I took the drive and plugged it into an enclosure to a Windows...

Hi again,I got a friend here with windows 7 home premium 64bit & she wants to change from 64bit to 32bit,is it possible if i just boot with cd?

Hi there , When ever I re-install my windows , I always start from scratch and prepare my drive. As I do it now , I insert the Windows XP pre- service pack cd and it has the option to completely delete partitions and format them from scratch. The Windows 7 copy I have is different and I...

I am having a lot of trouble with Windows 7 booting. Here are some details: - single hdd machine (750GB); single partition - Win7 64bit home edition - I am getting the disk boot failure message on boot (nothing in particular changed) - booting from the win CD, repair seems to run ok but...