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Hey, all. I need some help. I just got a new hard drive for my laptop to replace an old one that went bad. Unfortunately, Windows will not install to the laptop (or work, on the one occasion I've succeeded). Every time I've tried to install Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), it tells me that it...

Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...

Hello to anyone reading this. I have a Win 7 64 bit 2012 laptop (HP). My main disk (A Toshiba 320GB) is currently a Dynamic. I want to shrink my Win 7 Partition (Simple) to make room for Linux Mint. Whenever I try to shrink, it can only shrink by about a Gig, and it says "The partition cannot...

This guide will cover creating a bootable USB drive to be used to install Windows. This will work with Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. Plug in your USB drive to be used to create your bootable install disc (make sure it is at least 4GBs to accommodate your Windows install data Open an...

Recently read that newer DiskPart (ie Win 7) will work with Flash Drives (while XP will Not). Am wondering if anyone has been able to run a newer version on XP? If yes, please describe what you did. Thanks Ken

I want to install windows 8.1 on a new SSD, but I want the SSD to MBR instead of GPT. Before installation I changed the disk to MBR using diskpart (through the shift+f10 cmd function) However windows automaticly changes the disk to GPT during installation. How can I install windows 8.1 using MBR?

This all started several months ago. My laptop was stuck in processing updates for hours, even when I had got off work. I turned it off by holding down the power button, the I turned it back on. After booting up, it continued to process updates. I turned off again the same way I did the first...

64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...

The laptop is an Asus R500A with Windows 8 (not 8.1) that I just purchased from a guy on Kijiji. I got the thing home and did the recovery on it, all went as it should have and I was able to boot straight to the desktop where I went about performing the usual new Windows OS tasks; updates and...

Hello. I opened CMD and ran diskpart. I found 4 hidden drives I did not know about. One of these partitions I am not able to open because I do not have permission to access it. The other three say they have content stored in them. For example, 200MB free of 500MB. I open these partitions...

Hello! I'm using Windows XP 32bits(original)(in C:\) and i'm trying to install Windows 8.1 x86(original)(in D:\), but i'm trying to do without using flashdrive or dvd. So, to do that, i did what read in internet: 1- Copy the following content from your Windows 8 disc or ISO to D:\ 1.1- Boot...

my laptop is not booting properly. while installing window it shows it is lock first unlock it. and in diskpart there is only one drive ( disk 1) which has 22gb. but my laptop has 2 drive disk 0 which has the main window. but its not showing there.

About a month ago my dell m6700 precision workstation got an error when I turned it on which said: "Unable to find operating system." This happened when I restarted the laptop. I still do not know what caused it to do it but for the last month I have been trying to fix it. In the end I couldn't...

I'm using windows 8.1 suddenly my laptop shut down... When I restart my laptop it didn't switch on. I used windows 8.1 boot cd and checked c drive is not responding. I'm also tried in cmd c: it just not responding it just freezing the command prompt whereas i can get into d: & e:. I just had...

Hi there guys and girls. So I decided to try Windows 8 on my Windows 7 PC so I went ahead and try dual boot. I entered the W8 setup screen and when I got to the part where I need to select a partition I wasn't able to because I was told I needed a GPT partition so I went ahead and opened a...

I was instaling win8 in a laptop that had previoselly win 8. It is a 64bits. I have 1 hdd with 2 partitions, the C that has the os and the G that I use for backup. During istalation I selected the drive C to install win8 and formated. But I didnt show the option next was greyed out. And and...

Hi, Just switched out from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit Full Edition and I have to say I am a little confused about Windows 8.1 Recovery. So upon a clean install, three visible partitions are created, Recovery (300mb), EFI (100mb), and the regular Windows partition. (I understand there...

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I required a second copy of win7 for testing purposes. I created a bootable virtual hard drive with win7 installed on it. However when I restart my pc, there is no boot manager present. I always have to press F11 to enter into the boot menu and then choose the...

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Have a Dell laptop, started getting the start windows normally or repair screen, each option did nothing. Windows 7 64-bit and it's a DELL-Inspiron 15-3521 Decided to just reformat, didn't have anything important on it. After a lot of trial and error I'm lost, I deleted the partitions, got an...