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Today was the second day where I got the "Operating System Not Found" screen, so I figured I would come this site to get some help. Just for reference I'm not very computer savi but can definitely following instructions. I have a Sony Vaio VPCEA46FM, running x64 bit Windows 7. Little...

Hi Guys. I haven't had a Windows XP question in a lot of years. My friend Paul asked my to come over and upgrade his Dell computer to 2 Gigs of ram. I did that and it booted and worked fine, but I noticed that only half of his hard drive was available. I said where is the rest of your hard...

Over past week or so my system boot-up is taking forever and occasionally just hangs with cursor top left...drive flashes occasionally..I wait..then shut down..Press F8 on start up and use system start repair..seem to work no missing files reported .. I have used sfc /scannow ..all is well...

Hello All! I'll just give you guys the details and see if any of you can solve this little puzzle I've created. Needless too say, I made a few stupid mistakes along this road. 1) Asus Laptop Model UL50VT with Windows 7 Home Premium. 2) Hard Drive crashes dies, send it in and get it replaced...

Okay, so I'm ripping my audio CDs, and I just had a problem getting the drive to open, So I looked and saw a tiny hole on the drive, I stuck a paper clip in it and it opened. Now however I cannot get it to detect any CDs. It will not load anything. Now I looked and I realized that...

Since my computer was running extremely slow, I decided to restore to factory settings. It formatted my disk drive and reinstalled Windows. I guess that the process wasn't done, so when I start up, it goes onto to a series of screens that have to do with setting up Windows such as the services...

Been working on this for along time and to no avail. When I try to format a standard 4.7gb disk (which is rounded to 4.38gb before format, tried several times and different brands), error message recieved if 'windows was unable to complete format'. The file type comes up as RAW (also says 0...

So I've been trying to restore my computer fully for days now. I used the Windows 7 Backup method about a week ago to backup 3 drives: C: (SATA-Primary), D:(SATA), and H:(IDE). They were successfully backed up, however restoring them has been a nightmare. I re-imaged the C: drive back to its...

I have activated my Windows 7 which is on a separate disk drive from the old predecessor, Vista 64. Can I remove this older disk and repair the boot using the upgrade DVD? Do you need a full retail version to do that? Do I have to keep the Hard Drive that the old Vista was on forever ?(~~)...

Hello Windows 7 forums. I have a problem. Windows Vista wouldn't start up, which was a bitch but I installed windows 7 over the top and kept all my old files, which was ok. But now when I put a CD in with avi's or whatever on the disk drive disappears when content is paused or closed and doesn't...

I just got Windows 7 Home premium, but I accidentally installed the 64 bit OS instead of the 32 bit OS. I didn't download or install anything yet on the 64 bit so I just need to change to 32 bit... Someone help please? Can I put the 32 bit CD in the disk drive and just install that or do I need...

details 64 bit dvd game x3 terran conflict i installed the game just fine initially, however i got the" you have to be administrator to run this game 1st time i have seen the answer to that on here, however having un installed the game to try and solve the problem, the disk drive d...

Hi I have just upgraded from Vista to Win 7 Premimum on a new Toshiba laptop with 1 disk drive partionioned into C;(system) and Data drive. When attemting to run MS backup i get a error message saying VSS has failed. In the Appliction log i get the following following 4 entries (in the order in...

Hi guys, I'm currently in the process of instaling windows 7 into my HP Pavilion Slimline s5120y. I finished with the HP Upgrade assistant and the next step is to insert the other CD the UPgrade Media CD but now my computer DOES NOT recognizes my disk drive so I'm unable to read any CD's Any...

My Win 7 machine (Dell XPS 8000) is 2 weeks ago. About a dozen of programs were already installed and they are running fine. But recently, I start to see an unsual error on the screen when I open programs (so far two programs): There is no disk in the drive. Please inssert a disk into drive...

i installed windows 7, and everything seemed to work fine. installed a bunch of programs, they also all seem to work. but then i decided to do some backups; i created the rescue cd using windows, and then cloned the hard drive also using windows 7. but then i noticed the backup program, and...

mainly valve cause thats all i really play. ok well ive had this problem before and i had fixed it, came down to it being my caviar green 1tb drive, then went out and got a caviar black 1tb, and that had fixed it for a while. now its sort of back. this time it happens once in a blue moon. and...

I just picked up my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate from the Student Tech Center at my university. I have Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) already running and I want to clean install this time. Trying to install it but it keeps on hanging at the Installing windows in the bottom middle of the screen. The...

Hey everyone, I just upgraded my Mobo and CPU and installed Virtual Machine and XP mode so I could use my Nostromo game pad for COD WAW and it installed fine but when I go to load the game I get an error telling me to insert the correct disk in the drive. WTF? It sees the disk in the drive on...

It use to be able to know it does not work so my question is does build 7600 fix this? I am using android g1 if it helps. I get it working on my computer (as a disk drive) and using doubletwist and mediamonkey.