corrupt file

Recently I installed (from a CD) Windows XP Professional on my computer. The installation went well. When I looked at "About Windows", the box said that Service Pack 1 was already present. Then I proceeded to install Service Packs 2 and 3. Number two installed OK, but Service Pack 3 gave...

Word 16 suddenly would not open a document I've been working on for a while. I get the error that it needs to be recovered. After I recovered it the file contents were gibberish. My question is how do word documents become corrupt? Can this be prevented?

So when I try to boot windows server 2012 it dosent boot it says it has a corrupt boot file. I just put in my key code to activate it to from windows server 2012 evaluation. Is there any repair discs I can make besides the original disc?

Hello, I'm sorry if there is a similar thread like this, but it seems that the fixes they recommend, unfortunately, doesn't work for me. Yesterday, I was using my Wacom Tablet, and it said that the Wacom Driver needs update, so I did. It said that after the installation, it will require a...

Hey, I downloaded a rar file which turns out is corrupt near the end, is there a tool to fix it? Just its a 2.5GB file which i dont realy want to wait for it to download again lol cheers EDIT: sorry its a tar file which contains rar files

Uploaded the CBS file it gave me. I've been experiencing several BSODs a day since upgrading to windows 10, and have decided to try and get to the bottom of the problem, but I wasn't entirely sure where to put this thread since it's a multiple-issue situation. Can't read these things, does...

Hey this afternoon i came back to my computer to find it would not boot windows, system repair did not work nether did running it in safe mode. Then i tried to system restore to about a month ago still no luck if anyone can help would be greatly appreciated :) "Problem details" Problem Event...

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." 3. Click "Repair your computer." If you do not have...

Okay, did a clean swipe of HDD and installed Windows 7 PRO with no problem - everything working fine. Then "appear" to have installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows. When I start the computer, I have the choice of either selecting Windows or Ubuntu. When I select Windows, I have NO...

bought new laptop few days ago and went to factory reset via the recovery partition, it stuffed up few times during instlallation and got few blue screens and was stuck on formatting so i formatted laptop to win xp to burn myself a win7 installer into disc so i did and tried installing via disc...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone can give me some help on this problem I'm having. I'm doing a favor for a friend and fixing her computer. The problem is that as soon as windows boots up it starts up in Startup Repair. Startup repair does not fix the computer, it gives an error that...

I have a corrupt MTS file on my SDHC card. Windows cannot copy nor move this file, and says to run chkdsk to fix it. I've had experience with chkdsk fix, and don't want to do that (it chops the file into unusable pieces). Media Player is able to play 36 minutes of the file, even though it...

I'm pretty new to computers and dont know what to do. While i was trying to download a program to allow my Bluetooth to work with my win7 home premium 64bit it somehow seems to have uninstalled all of the data on my hard drive or something along those lines. so i purchased the recovery disc and...

Hi, I Hope someone can help. I have just run PartedMagic on a new Windows 7 system to shrink C: in order to be able to create an E: (Data) partition. On rebooting, I get the following error message: As it is a new machine, it was supplied with no system disk and I don't have a Windows 7...

Alright guys I need help on this one. My computer laptop went to a blue screen while I was using it and said Unknown Hard Error. Then I shut it off. Now when I reboot it it goes into startup repair no matter what I try and will never get into my Windows 7. I've tried safe mode... everything...

First off I'm running Widws 7 Home Premium as an upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium. I was using our main PC at home this evening when for no reason whatsoever it just shut down and went to restart itself. When it tried to reboot Startup Repair started up instead. It goes through a...

Just yesterday, as I was browsing the internet, my laptop randomly shut down. I restarted it and what I was faced with was the startup repair. It didn't work, a box showed up saying 'startup repair cannot repair this computer autmatically'. I sent the information. The problem details said...

I am unable to remove or install MS Home Preminum 2007. Win Diag. states I have a corrupt install file and to reinstall the software, however, when attempting to do this I receive Error 2329 and defaulted to a install window that request files I'm unable to retrive. Lastly; When trying to remove...

Couple of days ago my desktop crashed and when it restarted it said "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>system32/hal.dll. Please install a copy of the above file." I solved the problem using this: Hal.dll Missing Windows 7 - How To Fix Hal.dll...

After a shut down my computer won't start. I've tried using a windows 7 repair disk with no luck. Says it was unable to fix. It shows no restore points for a system repair. Here are some of the errors I have recieved. Boot Manager generic failure 0xc000000e OS Loaded generic failure...