disk issues

I ran one of the performance reports today, which claims I have a disk with the dirty bit set. Recommended running chkdsk..... Fired up a command prompt and typed chkdsk v: /f/r/x And got: Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in...

Having finally convinced my mother that getting me a game for christmas would be far better that a jumper, I know that Santa will be bringing me Fallout 3: Game of the year edition (a snip at £15!) I've been wanting to get this game for ages so can anyone give me any pointers on patches and...

I have tried to install windows 7 64 bit on a asus k50ij running vista 64 bit. I am installing from an upgrade disk that was mailed to me because i bought the laptop shortly before the release. The installation always hangs at Copying Windows Files 0% I ran the upgrade advisor and uninstalled...

Alright well here's the deal, I have installed, reinstalled, downloaded, redownloaded, burned and reburned windows 7 from the msdn site. I have done this so many times because I have been unable to load a correctly working Windows 7 onto my system. I do get it installed and working rather...

I just installed windows 7 on my main computer, at the start of the installation process I had all the correct drives & partitions showing nicely. Now that I have installed Windows 7, my storage disk has gone missing. It no longer shows up in windows 7, I can't find any link to it anywhere. XP...

Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...

Last night my computer froze and gave me a BSOD, and when I tried to simply restart it, it would get to the windows splash screen and BSOD again. Then after trying a few things to fix it, its giving me the 'Reboot and select proper boot device etc'. Ive checked Link Removed and it is showing my...

Hello. I recently decided to format my vista 64 bit machine and install windows 7 64 bit. I currently have an HP notebook (Pavilion 9930us) my basic specs are: intel duo core 2.0 ghz processor 4 gig DDR2 SDRAM Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS 300 gig HD I downloaded and burned Win 7 64 bit onto...

Hi Guys ;) Ive been trying to install Win 7 64Bit for a long time now but i havent succeeded with my own computer:( This is the fifth time im trying, every time with different releases but every time same problem. This i how i proceed: First i unplug everything except the dvd drive...

Need some advice on Windows 7 RTM install. I've installed many RC with no problems but when I attempt to install Windows 7 RTM it keeps telling it cannot format the disk. I'm running a Windows XP Pro computer with XP on disk1 and Windows 7 RC on disk2. I first disconnect disk1 and then boot...

Hi, I tried to install the RC amd64 Version on my PC, an installation of Windows XP SP3 exists on the installation partition. I choose a new installation and SETUP informed me, that the old Windows XP won't be able to boot because of the renaming of former %SYSTEMROOT%. After doing the first...

Hi, this is my first post on this forum and I hope my explanation of this problem is clear. I am running Wondows 7 Evaluation Copy 7100. When I run the Windows back up it stops after about 20% and I get an error message. This has happened everytime I tried and again this morning. The contents...

Take a look at the screenshot below. You'll see that it's of my RAID 0 set-up and was benched tonight (Saturday). The problem is that they won't complete a full chkdsk and always gets stuck on 50%. Now obviously I'm thinking one of the drives is about to give up although the benches show that...

My XP installation went bad on my laptop, so I though if I was going to reinstall windows, I might as well use Windows 7 (i'm using it on my desktop already). My laptop would no longer boot due to a corrupted Windows file. I installed Windows 7 today. The install went fine, booted from CD...

Hi there, I am new here ;) I have a big problem i think, i've removed all the users from my disk @ the security tab. After that i've set my account only on it. After that i tried to shut down but it didn't respond anymore. After that i turned my pc off manually and after putting it on again it...

I had installed windows 7 on my computer in the past, but during a reformatting process, it was deleted. Now, when I try to install it, it doesn't work and leaves me in a constant loop of these two different screens Link Removed Link Removed

Been trying to install Bumptop for my desktop but get 1 of 2 errors. - Do not have sufficient privileges to alter windows/winsxs/policies i am definitely the admin, said to run as SYSTEM, as a beta user do i now have control over my pc (for installation anyway)? tried new user name...

Hi Just signed up, But I haveto start this thread on a negative unfortunatly. Whenever I try and open Computer Management or do Anything in WLM2009 an error box comes up saying "There is no disk in drive" Press continue, retry etc. The only way to get past this is to keep pressing cancel or...

I have just installed Vista Ultimate and it works great, but my SCSI disks does not show up in Vista. They do show when booting the SCSI bios, and I have tried 3 different disks, and none of them show up when Vista have booted up. The driver for the Adaptec 29160N scsi controller card was...

Having gone through the process four times (2 x upgrade and 2 x clean install) of the OEM Ulimate Disk, the message "the upgrade (or install) was unsuccessful and your original windows is being reinstalled". Upgrade advisor tells me that my system is compatable - any similar problems that...