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i have a Win7 machine i'm wanting to upgrade to, Win10 x64 22H2, as new install on new SSD. i downloaded the ISO today from MS. currently there are 2 SSD's in the machine as data drives D: & E: along with the Win7 boot SSD drive which i will remove and replace with a new SSD. i will install...

I have an installation of win7 Ultimate x64 that is going wobbly. So I want to run repair on it. But I can't find the original disks. found the microsoft site where I can download a win7 ISO if I give them the key from that machine. That's fine. And I'll do it. But just wonder - that will...

Assume I have a rather new external (Toshiba) 3TB USB harddisk. During the last days I experienced a data loss because one of the data blocks on the hard disk seems to get damaged. I run a surface test with one of these hardidsk management tools like Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows...

I'm kind of freaking out. I was in the middle of defragging Dell inspiron 15 laptop running windows 8.1 64-bit and I had to leave and I accidently closed the lid, which shuts down my laptop. Upon returning to my laptop, I realized my mistake when I tried booting the laptop up, it turns on, but...

Hi all, I had W7 on my PC, then partitioned the HD so I was able to dual boot with Ubuntu. Now I don't remember because it was a while ago but I'm nearly positive that after installing Ubuntu, I also used W7 and it worked. But I'm not 100% positive. I can still access the W7 HD from within...

Hi, I have Windows 8.1 as my operating system. After a random amount of time, my Disk usage will jump to 100% for around 30s-1min then go back to normal. It will continually do this over and over again. The problem is, I can't figure out a solution or the cause of the problem. I looked online...

I have a GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard bought to me by a friend as it needs a windows upgrade because it is still using Windows XP. I plugged the computer in yesterday and when i turned it on a box came on the screen asking for a floppy disk with the latest BIOS on it, but i didn't ask the computer...

Ok i don't know if this is really a B.S.O.D or not. My problem is that every time i play a full screen game like league of legends, my screen would first display big square blue dots spread around the whole screen then the whole screen would turn black also there would be no sound when this...

I had an all-in-one liquid cpu cooler leak coolant all over my PC last week, luckily it shut down from overheating when there was no coolant left in the loop. I disassembled my PC, cleaned everything with alcohol and let it dry. Then i bought an air cooler and installed it. After installing the...

Timeout causes graphics card to fail. Occasionally, when on a web page with pictures/video/flash, the screen will "freeze" and have some random colored pixels appear or sometimes it will just go black. Sometimes when this happens the whole system will remain locked. Other times it will...

Hi I'm new here and I desperately need some help, Last night I Updated my nVidia graphics driver and that all went well. I was just watching youtube videos and plaing an online game (League of Legends) when I thought that It's time for me to get some sleep but I accidently left my laptop on...

Whenever I try to boot my computer the "welcome" message on the start up does not appear. The graphics appear to be changed a little, but can successfully login to my account . The desktop icons are displayed without the corresponding descriptive text for example I can see computer icon but not...

I ended processes such as lsm.exe and a prompt came up telling me what Windows has encountered a critical problem and that it will restart in one minute. Even though the process has ended (and remains closed), Windows OPERATES PERFECTLY FINE AND NORMALLY. Why does Windows have to shut down...

Hi. This is my first post here and I hope you guys can help me. I am not very good with computers but I know enough to get around. Recently my computer has been acting weird. When I try to put it in hibernation mode it will look like it has, but when I go to start it up it tells me my computer...

Hi there, So I have had Battlefield 3 for several months now and it has been awesome until recently. It has started to crash whenever I get about 10-15 minutes in. It freezes the whole system so that I have to hard restart it. Once I log back in, it shows that Windows recovered from an...

We keep getting "AMD Drivers have stopped working but, have recovered" error message every time we play the MMO perfect world. What happens is he takes a few steps with his character and it goes to a (insert lined color screen). This has happened a couple of times well the computer was idle...

I just tried sfc/scannow and I got the following message: There is a system repair pending which requires a reboot to complete. Restart windows and try sfc again. I'm thinking this repair pending is from the chldsk/r I completed previously. This is great, except when I reboot, the repair...

After dealing with a severe re-occuring malware problem which needed Microsoft's offline scan to eliminate, I started having trouble getting my Dell laptop to boot up. First I get a Windows Error Recovery screen with a message telling me that Windows failed to start and that I should Launch...

[SOLVED] W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image Hello After restoring an image made with Clonezilla that used to work, Windows 7 is unable to start. When prompted, I used the DVD, but it still fails with "Startup Repair could not detect a problem". When rebooting, it says...

I'm short on the tech savvy, so please be patient with me. A day ago, while using my netbook (Asus Eee 1001p) to look at videos on YouTube, the Shockwave Flash plugin became unresponsive. Shortly after this, my PC froze. Ctrl-Alt-Del wasn't helping, so I opted to perform a manual shutdown...