factory reset

Hi, I keep getting the BlueScreen error. I have contacted sony and preformed the hardware test which had no problems and restored my system to factory settings. Please help otherwise sony will charge me a bomb ):. Below are more details and attached are the DMP files. BCCode: 116 BCP1...

Hi Guys. I hope this is in the right Forum. Briefly. I tried to reformat my dads hard drive to reinstall windows 7. It was in 2 partitions, so i ran the windows 7 disc and it ran through the motions, i formatted the c to re-install windows and it wouldn't let me. I went into dos under...

I bought my current laptop in April last year and it came with Windows Vista home premium, then I used my student discount to DOWNLOAD and update it to Windows 7, i've been having major Codec problems with it for months now and the only thing I havent tried is restoring it, I was just wondering...

I cannot seem to get the restore to factory settings discs to install as it says i dont have enough disc space, i have tons of disc space, so i tried to reinstall windows 7 using the pqservice but am not sure how to go about it. Howdo I start the image on pqservice to reinstall my windows 7...

Hi there I recently bought a new Gateway desktop. I added another hard drive to it and installed Ubuntu on it. Ubuntu installed the Grub bootloader to the wrong drive, the Windows 7 drive. All this happened before I made the Gateway Recovery Backup disks. I managed to fix the Windows 7 drive...

^^ The title is just so some members don't ignore the post as they see the last post was likely by me, which would usually mean it's me helping someone else.. but either way. I had a real nasty virus a few days back, and ever since I finally got it removed, I've been unable to use the Windows...

Sometimes it is good to renew your wireless SSID by restoring router to factory settings, warning always get software from your router company or its on the cd for your router so you can setup wireless ssid again

Dear firends, I had uploaded W7 premium oem version on my pc yesterday. I was previously using Vista Home premium preinstalled in my laptop. after the OS got installed i lost my all documents of vista, as of i was not able to find it. i lost my all installed softwares also. so i opted for...

Hi I'm new here and I hope I'll get the help I need. Recently after having my laptop reset to factory defaults(reinstalling 7) I'm having random BSOD's and it's driving me nuts, so far I had 2. I just had one before posting this. I'm having regrets now on buying this laptop then having BSOD's...

Would like to know if anyone could share any insight with what to do with a back-up DVD-R containing WIM format files of data. How do you extract and utilize the backed-up data? My new HP with Windows 7 got a virus recently and I was forced to restore laptop to factory condition. Resulting in...

hey guys I wanted to know hoe I can restart my whole computer all the files deleted ect. from my computer I don't want to buy program of something like that. I have windows 7 PLEASE HELP

I have a new Toshiba X500-10T, I have had several small problems and Toshiba Technical now wish to delete all I have installed (mainly programmes) and do a factory reset. Sio all my work will be lost. I have installed the Beta version of MS Office 2010 and have spend quite a lot of time setting...

Hello I have a Xbox360 connected to my laptop via cable, then connect to Xbox Live wireless though a Linksys router (G 2.4 ghz). Everything works fine with my 6 year old laptop running XP home, but there is a little lag with one game. So I bought a new Asus laptop that came with Windows 7...

Suddenly I find programme icons with a shield on and I am unbale to install anything at all. Each time I am told that folder c:\programmes is read only and will not allow access. It will not allow me to use c:\programmes(x86) saying this has disallowed characters. My otehr PC with WinXP has...

Hi guys, Oops I forgot to add this, I am using Windows 7 home, 32 bit edition This is the second time it has happened to me. The first time was about a week ago. I got a bsod, and then when windows 7 was booting back up, it said it was restoring something about the desktop. It took about 4...

I tried upgrade my laptop (Acer Aspire - 5935G) from Vista too Windows 7. When the installation is almost done, it requires restart, but when restarting the computer the computer turns black , after the Acer and Win7 startup thingy. I've tried to run via safe mode, but it cant finish the...

It seems to be that Windows Explorer is screwed. :eek::eek::eek: I had my laptop and I realised GTA: Vice City was screwing up a bit. It was a modded version (Killer Vip 1.3?) Anyway my computer was Not responding on the most simplest of tasks. Such as opening a folder. I then tried to make...

I recently did factory reset on my acer vista home premium 64 bit OS.. before installing my windows 7 home premium upgrade retail. It is my understanding that this upgraded my windows media player from version 11 to 12 as it appears only version 12 runs on windows 7. I have red lines running...

Hey, I recieved my Sony Vaio Windows 7 disks today, put the first one in and it started doing some install thing for supplement disk (said 1/12) but then froze for ages, so I tried closing it. When I attempted to start the installation again, I now receive this error: "The supplement disk...

:confused: Just bought a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W500 with Windows 7 64 bit, found I couldn't adjust the screen brightness. When press the Fn key for adjustment, the sun logo for brightness will display on the screen, and the bars which show the brightness extent will increase or decrease...