factory reset

I have Dell Inspiron 580s, which is 5 months old. I recovered the factory setting using the recovery CD i had created after the purchase. Now i am only able to see the C drive which has the OS and other partition (which has the data which I don't want to lose) is not shown. When I go to disk...

Hi, I have been experiencing random Bsods for a while now on my new Vaio laptop. It doesn't happen during anything specific it is just random. Could be browsing the net or even when the comp is sleep, at times I open it to read the Bsod. Any help would be much appreciated, Laptop is only 2...

hey guys I have windows 7 home premium installed on my hp pavilion dv6 laptop On first startup,blue screens appeared within 2 weeks They kept on occuring every 4-5 days despite repeated image reinstall and system restore Next i deleted the factory image and reinstalled the same...

( Dell Inspiron 545 mini tower Windows 7x64 home premium (not activated), avg installed, recent restore to factory settings) Hi, i guess i should explain a fair bit about how i got into this situation so skip this paragraph to see whats actually happening. it started when i installed a virus...

My laptop does not seem to boot into safe mode. I've been tapping F8, even though it says F8...system restore on the bottom left corner, it still won't boot. I tried this other method on advance recovery method and chose use system image created earlier - that and return to factory condition...

Since my computer was running extremely slow, I decided to restore to factory settings. It formatted my disk drive and reinstalled Windows. I guess that the process wasn't done, so when I start up, it goes onto to a series of screens that have to do with setting up Windows such as the services...

sooooo.... i hate the blue screen... I took my comp to best buy, and after a week, they restored it to factory condition. It went away for a while, but then it came back! It accomplished nothing! I'm a pc gamer, and I only have my computer to play games with (go steam! woot!) but the bsod...

hello i have a sony vaio, windows 7. i did a restore to factory setting and started dowloading mozilla firefox then got hit with the blue screen :( DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_ , stop codes oxoooooo7e, oxoooooo1e,d1, iastor.sys if those mean anything to yall. i can go into safemode sometimes...

Win7 ie9 beta--64 bit presario notebook cq62 The system was reset to factory defaults (in order to correct a startup issue) when restarted all images were deleted. Have tried many recovery programs which have not been successful except to recover the images as corrupted files.....multible...

Okay this started about 4 days ago, I am connected to the internet, but I cant seem to get anywhere without repeated presses of the refresh button, no matter what browser I am using. I get server not found, I hit refresh 5 or 6 times I get the page to load. Next page will be okay , page after...

I have a two month old Lenovo ThinkPad X201T; a few weeks ago the wireless started acting strangely at times - a couple phenomena may explain the abnormality: 1. I use my laptop on two college campuses. I have wireless set up on each of them. The error occurs when I move from one side of a...

I have a Toshiba laptop that I got 12 months ago. Everything was working good and then today the laptop fell off a foot stool. At first I was able to use it but after a few minutes a blue screen appeared and it restarted. An option to repair or start windows normally came up. I chose repair...

Hello, I'm having the exact same problem as the original thread poster (Link Removed) and I have unknowingly restored my computer to factory settings. Safe modes don't work because they launch into the first time Windows OS setup. I attempted to update the driver, but I don't know how. It'd be...

So here's what happened guys........ I have a HP Pavilion slimline with Windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I wanted to install Windows XP on a 30GB partition I just created(I know bad idea, now I know) So after I installed XP on the partition and rebooted it came to an error screen and said...

Hi, A friend of mine has a rather bad virus that I've given up dealing with. I have backed up all of her files and wished to install a fresh version of the 7 OS, however her laptop did not come with a 7 OEM disk. I hate going through the process of hunting down drivers (and I can never find all...

after i tried to restore sony pcg-7185m, VGN-NW20EF to its original factory, i can't restart it, there is message shows on the black screen :"Operating System Not Found", what can i do now?

I had to do a factory restore on my Gateway laptop. It is just a couple of months old. Anyway, I just put it back on factory settings. The mouse worked then. It worked for a long time this evening after I was updating windows, and then I installed the anti virus program. Then I noticed the mouse...

As i tried to write the problems from the beginning it may be lengthy. Hope you'll kindly read it i tried ,perhaps foolishly,to install ubuntu 9 to my Hp notebook with preinstalled Windows 7 in it. Thereon windows failed to start up. it boots perhaps and the logo is desplayed but doesn't...

Big problem pls help: I got this new computer with windows 7 home on it as the factory default windows version. I did not like it so wanted to go back to what I was used to which was XP so I put in the disc and went through the procedure to put it back on but it seems rather than go over the...

I have recently restored my computer to factory condition and then downloaded the newest Reltek HD drivers from the reltek site and when i play certain games there is popping/crackling sounds... sometimes when im on youtube fullscreen it does it to but when i play music from computer it doesnt...