disk issues

hey guys i am literally in confuse i want to dual boot i have two windows dvd one with genuine key and the other one with windows activator. so i want to make a bootable windows 7 dvd but i cant do it in windows 8. although i was able to create the same dvd on my windows 7. i want to create...

Hello, I'm having some troubles with getting my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit installed: Right now I am running Win7 32-Bit. Since I am also running programs that need to have 4 GB of ram or more in order to function properly, I need to upgrade up my OS to 64-Bit to allow my 16 GB of ram to...

Managed to resolve this by changing to CSM

Okay, So it all started with m computer giving me this: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1.Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer. 2.Choose your language settings, and then click "Next". 3.Click...

I am running Windows 7 professional 64bit service pack 1--Problem is that suddenly Windows "CAN'T READ CD NOT FORMATTED"--I want to burn COREL DRAW FILES to a recordable disc, used to be able to see "AUTOPLAY" open upon CD insert--no longer does it--went into "AUTOPLAY CONFIGURE" set to Windows...

Hello everyone, I do not know how to explain this thing: I have 2 hard drives from 80 GB on a secondary ide channel and the other of 300 gb on the primary channel. in these 2 hard drives are installed respectively in fat32 windows 2000 and the second hard drive windows xp, vista and...

So uhh, I'm new here and I am in need of some help. I just want to make something clear that I'm a major computer noob, so I might be a bit dumb when it comes to some things. Just now I tried to clean install my 32 bit windows 7 into a 64 bit and reformat my computer.Unfortunately, when I put in...

Hi my windows won't start and I'm in panic, please someone help me! Okay this is what happened: Minutes ago, I defragged (not quick defrag) my Local Disk (C) with Piriform Defraggler. The first time I defragged, it defragged a lot and I gained a dramatic free space, but during deframenting, the...

I have a WD 320Gb 3.5inch hard drive that was originally bought as an external drive in an enclosure. A few months ago, while booting, my computer would go through blue screens one after another if the external hard drive was switched on from the enclosure when the computer was started. I never...

i had to reinstall my windows 7 64x dell inspiron 1750 laptop using my windws 7 home premium disc that came with my laptop when i bought it because it was in a constant starup repair loop. the disc worked find until i got to the part where it said "expanding windows files." it was stuck at 0%...

Hi, look what happened... I lost evry data or files I downloaded and putted in comp. yesterday in my win 7 ultimate, even the movies I downloaded in utorrent... yesterday was here, today disappiered.... What is that???

Hi, Earlier I cleared my registry with CCleaner. It told me to restart and I had a weird error saying "Hard disk is imminent" etc. I don't know why this has come up, maybe CCleaner has deleted a registry it shouldn't. I tried to re install Windows but it won't happen. Any ideas?

Compaq Presario CQ62-215DX Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Warranty ended last month. This has happened many times, but has easily been resolved after changing the boot order in the BIOS. Each time, my computer crashes and I have to manually turn it off with the power button. After...

Hey there , 2 hours ago,i wanted to install windows7 on my sata disk ,cause i destroyed my old partition with ubuntu 10.10. So i started to install Windows 7 .However it couldnt be normal.Then i get an error: . A partition on the disk''0''could not be formatted .The error occurred while...

I am having major issues. I bought my Compaq Pressario desktop this past Feb. It has 2 gig ram, amd anthlon II processor 2.00 ghz, and a 500 gig hard drive running Windows 7 Home Premium. It didn't have service pack 1 which a friend installed from a disk he had as I can't access the Windows...

hi guys can anyone tel me if i can retrieve data from my 2x750gb (samsung Spinpoint)Hard disks that was at one point in raid 0 config (stripping) as this belonged to my old rig which used a separate hard disk for the OS(maxtor 80gb). Once this disk failed i just left it as it was. so its...

Hi, everyone.. i am a newbie here. and i wish to ask experts here to help me. i have a Notebook Asus N82 and i change my harddisk (5400rpm 640Gb) to 320Gb 7200rpm. I using Seagate hd to clone all files. and boot... it works normally except starting up when windows flag appear.. it will takes...

After switching on your computer received the error RPLUD is compressed. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart on a black screen with white writing when trying to boot into Windows. Also tried to system restore by inserting win 7 disk but its also not happening:(. I keep getting the following from all...

My OS has developed a problem of links internal to email and sometimes other links do not work. IE8 which is part of Win 7 seems to be the problem. I have gone round and round on other forums but noone is able to fix the problem so I am left with re-installing the OS. Before you suggest I...

Have been using W7 for a couple of months - last night it decided to reboot and will not complete the reboot. Tried to repair using the W7 tools without success. I ran Sea tools and it found 4 bad sectors and fixed them. No change so far. It still will not start and go to the desktop. The...