custom install

Greetings: I have a faulting disk that needs replacement. I am considering replacing the disk with a SSD/HDD Seagate 750GB, 7500 RPM disk. I also want to install Win7/64 bit to replace the original Vista 32 bit OS. And upgrade the memory from 3 to 4 GB. I am not computer savvy, but learning...

Hey guys, So i was dumb and must have messed something up when i was installing ubuntu 12.10 because after the installation was complete and i tried to boot up windows it just showed a screen that said "A drisk read error occured, press Cntrl Alt Del to restart." After some research i think i...

I have noticed a slight variance during the installation of Windows 8 while the PC is connected to the internet and while it is not. Not being connected seems to be a little faster as it does not ask to sign in with your Windows Live ID, nor does is ask if you want to sign in with a Microsoft...

Hi, I want to re-install Windows 7 Pro on my computer because my OS has become corrupted. I purchased one of the first Windows7 disk from MS several years ago and when I tried to re-install Windows, I got a message "Current version of Windows is more current than the version you are trying to...

Hi there ! I just got my mother's computer back from a repair shop (they've changed the graphic card, the motherboard and the processor, the hard drive stayed the same) It is a SONY VAIO VPCEE25fx. I used my Windows 7 Ultimate OEM CD I had when I bought her the computer. But then, at the...

My son's laptop is stuck in the system repair screen and just stays there. Here's the background. His laptop was dog slow when he came home from college. The only way to boot it was in safe mode. I suspected a virus and ran multiple AV checks recommended on the Windows 7 support forum. No...

Hi, I was wondering if the custom installation option would delete my files that are located on hard drive D, I know that it would totally wipe out C but does the same happen to the other hard drives ,cuz I really have a lot of files and their size is more than 100gb :/ how many usb's am I gonna...

I find it folly to install my applications on the C drive, especially the larger applications. Doing so makes the C drive so large that it is cumbersome to make the image backups that I think are necessary to insure an easy recovery from any problem causing a failure to boot. In WinXP, there is...

Hi guys, Tolerance here, new to the forums as some of you may notice. Anyways I'm trying to install Windows 7 ultimate package on a PC that previously had Windows Vista. I've already ran the Windows Adviser program, and my PC seems fine so i went ahead and tried to install. First i tried using a...

Describes how to move files and folders from the Windows.old folder that Windows Vista creates when you perform a custom installation of Windows Vista or of Windows 7. Link Removed

I have windows 7 bootable DVD and want clean instalation. i boot from DVD and opened stup and i chuse Custom (advanced) instalation and i formated my hard drive instalation started copying files complited on expaning files i got blue screen Link Removed - Invalid URL and this happens evri...

Hi, I have an issue installing windows. I know a direct upgrade from 32bit to 64 isn't possible, but I purchased an online copy from Microsoft's site, "Windows 7 Premium Upgrade", and it's supposed to give me a custom installation option, a clean install where I can choose which version I want...

Okies, so today I backed up my files when prompted by the little flag icon, they went on an external HDD. Updated everything. Went back to pc after tea, and when i switch on it can't boot windows. 1.. it asks me to put the cd in, when i do it goes through to the option to upgrade, repair or...

This morning I had serious freezing issues with Windows 7. Just minutes after booting, it would freeze permanently. My mouse wouldn't even move on the screen, completely frozen. Manually shut down. Then it would sometimes freeze at the "Asus" screen and sometimes the computer would turn on but...

Cant get Windows 7 64 Bit to finish its installation.Gets to the first reboot.Thats as far as it gets.It wont finalize the installation.From there it goes into a reboot loop every 30 sec.Reboots into the Safe Screen window.None of the functions in the window work.Did a Custom Install from the...

Today I decided to re-install windows 7 to make it was again, after backing up all the necessary files onto my on board 1TB hard drive I restartrd windows with the retail CD in the CD drive. I pressed F12 and chose to boot with CD rom, now after several minutes whilst the CD was starting up I...

Hi there, I'm trying to upgrade from windows XP to Windows 7 Ultimate. After I boot the installation and chose a custom installation, it asks me to select a drive to install windows 7 onto. Only problem is the program cannot find any drives... It then gives me an option to browse my drives for...

I have just built a system with the following specs and Windows is crashing after rebooting during the install process: motherboard: MSI H57M-ED65 CPU: Core i5 760 RAM: 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 Boot drive: WD 500GB SATA Additional drives: 4 x 2TB WD SATA GPU: Zotac GEForce 9800GT RAID...

My issue, no matter what source, or what ram I use, Windows 7 will freeze during install at random points (Mostly during expanding windows files, however, also occurred before even selecting a partition to install on). When I say freeze, i mean the mouse is not able to be moved, and waiting...

Hi, I have a question about how drive space is reported by Windows 7. I just installed an upgrade - custom - and have not installed a great deal of software yet. But I noticed kind of a disparity in the space available vs the space used. I have a 140G HD notebook. The Windows folder shows...