disk errors

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...

When I start up my computer it shows NTFS volume label Acer C can't run due to error in recently installed software (I haven't installed any software in a long time, I have however gotten a new Targus High Speed SD/SDHC/MMC Card Reader/writer, which the software auto installed by windows) the...

yesterday i tried to burn iso files to my dvd and i install the windows 7. installation went well until the message "please make sure your dvd contains driver" shown and The Windows 7 installation application can't see my harddrive...what I should do to handle the problem? I've installed the...

Hey, I tried to search for this problem but could not find what I was looking for. I downloaded Windows 7 64 bit from my university via the MSDN AA program. I know that I need a clean install to upgrade this PC from XP to Windows 7. I downloaded the files and made the iso which I then burned...

Ok, I've searched all over every forum I can think of and I can't find anything anywhere. I apologize if this has been answered on this site; I couldn't find it. My C: drive has been displaying a size of around 60 gb with 40 free even though it's a 300 gb drive. I thought the issue would...

Right.....I bought a brand new pc a week ago (delivery was already delayed by 2 weeks). It was running windows 7 home premium. Straight out of the box there were disk errors. Wouldnt load up anything. Tried everything but to no avail. As i had already had to wait 2 weeks for it to be delivered...

Hello I've run into a problem, my Disk0 is disappearing in windows 7 after I wake my computer from sleep mode. At first I thought the problem was caused by lilo (a linux bootloader for those that don't know). I disabled lilo by running bootsect for my Winodws 7 install disk. It turns out lilo...

Hello, i am having a extremely alarming problem, i can not access my external HDD!! I had bitlocked it, which was EXTREMELY stupid, and 93% into the encryption, it decided to stop, and now it just gives me an error to keep checking the disk i could just pause it before it had an error and...

Everyday i shut down my computer properly. Each time I start it up again, it runs check disk . It's rather annoying since it takes about 10mins to complete before my computer finishes booting up. Is this a windows 7 bug or is my HDD showing signs of hardware failure? Thanks in advance...

Hi please help me, I have: Win7 Ultimate 64 Build 7100 Intel i7 920 2.67GHz 6gb RAM Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 The disk with this issue is a RAID0 4tb (2 HD 2tb each WD20EADS), GSATA2_1, GSATA2_0 Smart Backup JMB322 chip Last night I turn off my computer without no problem, this morning when I turn...

Windows 7 boot.ini [Solved] Hello users of this forum, Im in big trouble, cause i need to access my computer but it´s not booting, when time to boot it tells me that the boot.ini is damaged. The main problem is that i only have here a DVD with windows RT, and now im running Windows 7...

I downloaded a legal full iso- en_windows_7_ultimate_x64_dvd_X15-65922 Running the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor indicated there would be no problems with an upgrade from Vista 64 Ultimate edition. Setup starts just fine, but halts at 18% of 'unpacking windows files'. The computer then reboots...

Hi, thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer. My problem started with Microsoft Office, but I fear it is much worse. I get error messages whenever using a microsoft office program, saying that a file is corrupted. I can't uninstall, I can't repair, I can't reinstall. Now, I...

tryed installing BF2, and the installation went fine until after disk 3. After that...the contents of the EA folder just disappeared. No clue where they went. When it asked for disk 3 there was 1.8 gig in the EA folder....and then gone after 3 finished.....any clues? Intel dual core 1.7 gh...

I want to run chkdsk because I am getting some corrupt file errors. But I can't figure out how. I have run it from the command prompt as admin. When i perform a read only test it finds many errors so I try a test that writes as well. It says it will complete the test after reboot. but when...

Hi there, I have an MSI M677 laptop with 2GHz dual core AMD64 TL-60, 2GB ram, and GeForce 7600 agp. I went to reinstall my Vista HomePremium last night due to frequent shutdowns and BSOD(due to an nvidia driver, but I thought that agp driver alone cannot cause that many slowdowns in the...

Need a bit of help here. I've been trying everything I could think of for the past 3 days but nothing is working out for me. I'm trying to set up W7 on my laptop, which already has Vista installed as the primary OS, and Ubuntu as a second OS. I was hoping the set up W7 as my third, but I've...

Every time I try and back up my files, I get this message. I will then proceed to run every kind of HDD check available to me, as well as chkdsk. However, each test finds nothing wrong. I did have some corrupt files on the NTFS partition that were causing Vista to fail every other boot. I have...

Ok well I have this Microsoft Licensing disk that I got from my dads work, and it says on it: MultiLanguage Microsoft Windows Vista Business Service Pack 1 (used for all editions of Vista) June 2008 Systems Windows Client: Business And I've been trying to boot off it, but it just wont do it...

My laptop has only one partition (c) and vista is preinstalled on that drive. Some times back I tried to repartition (shrink) the existing drive to two drives. But I could not do because of the CHKDSK problem. Now I tried to take a Complete PC Bbackup but it asked me to perform ChcheckDisk...