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One night, I shut down my computer to install Windows Updates overnight. When I tried to start Windows the next morning, I got a BSOD when attempting to boot. As soon as the "Starting Windows" logo appears, I immediately get thrown into a BSOD, which hardly lists any information even for BSOD...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

hello everyone i need your help. i have a hp g42-456tx laptop with following specification Mobile Intel Core i3 @2.66 GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6370 RAM DDR3 2 sticks @2 GB each (4 GB total) Harddisk SATA 500 GB lately i having bsod with the problem being 0x116 caused by atikmpag.sys or...

Most stupid thing to do, but I did it... I changed ownership of all files on C:\ (and permissions also -removed SYSTEM, Users & authenticated users from all files-shame on me) and after that, I was unable to get even into win logon screen. Fortunately, I have 2 Win 7 x64 versions installed, so I...

Hi guys Looking for a bit of advice on creating recovery disks. I have a Dell laptop. I am wanting to completely flatten it and start it fresh (wipe the HD / reinstall windows ect). how do i create a recovery disk that also includes all the drives? I've been in a situation before where I...

Link Removed I felt like mentioning this cause maybe some Folks aren't realizing it. People might hear about Clouds Services & off-premise data storage; to most average users/consumers would mean little, if anything. Some people have more than 1 drive or partition in their machine & may or...

I use NovaBackup 12.5 for disaster recovery backup. Recently, before the process starts I get this error message: Error 0x11112 (VSS specific error). Sometimes the program freezes, can’t even be closed directly, only from the Task manager. On other occasions it continues: VSS technology tries...

Hello. I don't have a hard drive large enough to backup the data on my daughter's netbook with a corrupted W7 starter install. When I attempt to re-install W7 starter, it does tell me that if it detects a previous Windows install, it will move the files over into a Windows.old folder. I'm...

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Hey guys - new to the boards but hope you can help! I currently am running a Gigabyte motherboard and a AMD PII X4 970 CPU. Based on gaming performance, I'm looking to make the switch to Intel (I guess that gamble of waiting for bull/piledriver to blow me away didn't pay off :razz:) Anyways...

[SOLVED] My Windows 8 Upgrade Odyssey Greetings. I am journaling my Windows 8 upgrade experience here in hopes that others can learn from the experience. If I am able to resolve the problem here in these forums, I would consider that a plus. But most of all, I am hoping to create some...

I tried to create a disk image using the Windows 7 feature. The creation failed with a message that chkdsk /r should be run on the source and destination HDs. Destination HD was error free. Source HD had bad clusters replaced in five files. Second attempt to create a disk image failed with the...

Hi folk, Bought an Acer 6530G in '08, it came with Vista ^o) Pre-installed on C:\ and D:\ was for backup/data etc... However i now have W7 Utl on C and W8CP on D and all is well.. But i would like to know: If the hidden partition named PQ_SERVICE only gets used with a set of Recovery DVDs i...

On my desk top PC running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, I checked the properties of various files and folders and found that "previous versions are not available." I checked properties of files and folders on a netbook running Windows 7 Home premium 32 bit and found previous versions are...

I have a DEll XPS 8500 with Windows 7 64 bits. I am trying to backup the data to an external HDD (WD 500 GB) connected to USB 3.0 using W7 backup function. The USB 3.0 is based on intel drivers.My whole C disk contains approx 110 GB data (should fit in my external HDD without problems). W7...

1) I just ran BU and created a system image. I told it to put the image on "one or more DVDs". It prompted me to insert a DVD--I did so. It ran for about 30 min. Then it prompted me for another DVD. I put another blank one in and it asked me if I wanted to format the disk. I told it to do...

Hi all! I have an ultra book with 128GB. I also have a 1TB NAS drive on my network. I want to go through and archive old personal data files and move the archives to the NAS drive. I don't want to totally get rid of it. I know I can just move over want I don't want to keep on my computer...

Hello W7 forums! So not too long ago I rebooted my pc as it was running a bit slow that day, as I was rebooting I got an error (I don't remember it now sorry) and it started startup repair. This startup repair went for almost a week straight before I gave up on it. Not being able to boot into...

Hey folks... I recently reorganized my computer and this included a fresh install of Windows 7 on a new disk. I backed up all my data on the old disk so that I could make sure I wasn't losing any important documents or whatever. I'm now sure I've got everything off the disk that I needed and...

I guess I've forgotten. Last time I did it, it was some time ago, I don't remember any trouble. I have a file in word that runs several pages long. I want to put it on a CD for security reasons and I don't remember how. I have a Dell Studio XPS and windows 7 operating system. Thank you.