computer troubleshooting

i have a P4V800-x Asus motherboard and i added an external hd with 1.5 terabytes, which is plugged thru a normal 2.0 USB, and has also normal electrical feed thru a source, plugged to wall outlet when the computer is switched off and i boot it to begin normal operation, having this external hd...

I installed windows 7 onto my windows xp coputer. The installation went fine(I think) but when I rebooted my computer everything was gone. My documents, programs, music, photos were all missing. I dont know how to retrieve all of my lost file, in which some were very important. If i re-install...

Many apologies if, somewhere in here, this has already been addressed. I have no clue where I would begin searching. Anyway, if someone can help it would be greatly appreciated. What has happened is this ... we bought a used tower and kind of got hosed on it. For one thing, the ad said 1G ram...

The erorr i am getting is BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del -- the funny thing is i can boot from the cd. What i have done to try fix this problem is: Go into the windows 7 installation and go to the repair option and did a start up repair( didn't work) Also did the BootBCD.exe cmd...

I hate these new operating systems. While trying to install xp, my computer said that i couldnt because i have a newer operating system. So i went to reformat my hardrive, only to have my computer tell me that i couldnt because that is the drive that has my operating system on it and the online...

Hey there. Today I was on my laptop (an acer) and out of nowhere I got the BSOD. It wasn’t around long enough for me to see it so once it went around its business and restarted the Laptop. It offerer to start up in safe or normal mode, so I chose normal for starters. I then decided...

Here goes.. if anyone can solve this for me, I will be so grateful I set a password and changed my username on my new Windows 7 - when I logged out - the password doesn't work and what comes up is "username or password is incorrect" - we tried everything, every variation of the password it...

I was running XP on C and Windows 7 RC(7100) on E drive in my computer.After formatting and reinstalling XP on C drive,the 0S choice menu during startup is not appearing and XP loads automatically.The name of E drive before Xp reinstallation was Windows 7,and now it is Local Disc(E:).Not a...

I just installed WIndows 7 Ultimate RTM on my machine. My hardisk has several partitions. The primary partiton is C. But it was of only 10GB, so I decided to install the Windows 7 on D drive. Everything is done smoothly except that, after the installation the i can't see my C drive. And all...

I left my computer (running 7 RC) on over night because it was downloading and installing SP2 for Office 2007. In the morning the computer was off. I imagine the power went out some time during the night because when I turned on the computer, I get a screen stating that there was an improper...

Hi, Windows Vista Home 64bit Abit motherboard running intel chipset and Core i7 6 gigs memory 2 solid state disks in stripe as C running fine 2 one-TB samsung f1 in mirror (one drive failed) I had a d drive in a mirrored configuration when one of the drives went bad. I don't have a backup...

Here is my problem: whenever I turn on my computer, vista goes into a reboot loop. The computer restarts a few seconds after I get to the login screen (letting me enter in at least part of my password). The problem is not solved when I press the power button, which makes it impossible to...

ASROCK AM2NF3 motherboard and ati x800xt, recognises the x800, install required drivers, on reboot the pc continuosly reboots :( anyone have similar probs and if so how did ya manage to get around this ????? thanks in advance. hmm, am thinking with the lack of response maybe i didnt...

I cant install OpenOffice because, at some point, the installer says it cant write in any \winsxs\ folder. As far as I see that, only "trusted installers" have access to this directory. So how do I force Win7 to like my OpenOffice installer? I changed compability to Vista and everything is ran...

Occasionally i get the dreaded blue screen when usung Vista Ultimate 64bit This can happen at any time and not during running anything specific. The message is MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. My system specs are as follows as someone may know the cure!!! Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with SP1 Gigabyte...