format drive

Yesterday I felt that my windows xp is corrupted due to which my browsers was not able to open any website. So i decided to format my c drive. When I started format procedure and file started formatting my c drive I noticed that instead of formatting c drive d drive is started formatting to...

Hi there, Today I wanted to create a system backup. I have 2 external hard drives, they are pulgged in. I selected one of them erased any files in there and also formated it. Then I started backup manager, didnt choose an image backup because the systme tells me that that particular drive is...

preface, i am fairly competant with this stuff. with win 95, 98, and xp i could boot into DOS and use commands to overwrite files and get problems fixed. but can't do that any longer.... i have an Link Removed and the only thing after market as of now (i jerked out a lot of stuff) on the MoBo...

I've got a situation that has completely puzzled me, wondering if anyone can help. My friend asked me to fix her laptop, which has been failing to boot, getting as far as the blue Windows 7 login screen then hanging. The login UI doesn't load, it's just the blue background. I tried to...

hi everyone, I'm new to this forum. I am desperate About 6 months ago I bought an Acer Win 7 computer. at this point. I am not a computer newbie, I have been around them for almost 25 yrs. I have been in a battle with my computer for several months now. I have Avast Internet Security...

If someone has a computer with extensive bloatware and simply wants to install an OEM version if Win 7, will it work without needing the OPK since the computer already had Windows on it? This would be using a freshly formatted hard drive.

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on troubleshooting a strange problem that occurs when I plug a Segate USB protable HD into any of the USB ports on my computer. From time to time when I plug it in, after a few seconds I get a dialog box saying that the drive is not...

I really need help on this one. I formatted my hard drive to reinstall windows and for some reason when I reboot the computer after installing from the DVD it won't go further than a black screen... I tried to boot off the hard drive but that wouldn't work. :( I have all my important files on...

Greetings! For the most part, I LOVE WIN7 64. However, I have had huge complications with my external hard drives that has made it essentially impossible to write to a 2 Terabyte external. I've googled and tried for hours various combinations of 'take ownership' and file permissions etc etc...

I don't know does any one discuss it before or not but i got serious problem. accidentally i formatted my laptops drive and lost all imported data. can any help to get it back.i need any software who work for it.please suggeste me early.

I recently just formatted my harddrive. It went from Windows Vista to Windows 7. When I first installed windows 7, I selected the clean install, but it saved the old files in old.windows. I decided to format the drive and start fresh. Through ALL of these installs, I've had blue screens. I...

I have just taken delivery of a new PC and instead of configuring it as I needed: Drive C: 500GB Windows 7 Drive D: 500GB Blank Drive E: 1TB Blank, The supplier has installed Windows as: Drive C: 1TB Windows 7 Drive D: 500GB blank Drive E: 500GB blank Is there a way to remove Windows 7 from...

My setup: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on ThinkPad T510. 1HD, two partitions (C and D). I just reinstalled my system and encrypted C; however, there is absolutely no option to encrypt D. I've tried accessing the drive from admin account and still nothing. When I open BitLocker management, it only...

This subject may have been covered before, if so please forgive the repeat question. I just bought a new HP laptop running Windows 7 Home Preimum along with the usual HP crapware. A Windows OS disk DID NOT come with this computer. I have two questions. #1 Is there a way to create a OS disk that...

Need help with tranfer my windows 7 drive to a different drive I have 2 drives: c: which contains the windows and d: for everything else. 1. I've used "backup and restore" and created drive image on a usb hard-drive. 2. i've formated drive c: booted with "ubuntu" and copied all my flies to c...

Hi! Ever since a botched encryption which resulted in me having to format a drive (not the main c drive), everything I download gives this message when I try to open it - "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified." I've tried changing the download location to...

So that's the basic version of my problem, here's how it happened. I was modding Morrowind and I added one too many which broke it, so I uninstalled it, thinking i could just re-install it. But then it didnt work, so i used uniblue registry booster to clean my system registry, and after that no...

How do I best erase all my stuff from my old HP laptop running vista? Can I format the drive and still have only the HP and Vista stuff left or should I do a restore?

Hi guys I've recently assembled a new PC and installed W7 on it, only to then find that some of my cherished software won't run on W7 whereas it did on my old pc running XP (which has now been dismantled and cannibalised). So I've decided to make my new machine a dual boot. Having looked at...

Ok guys I'm stumped. I have been lurking around dozens of forums and have read until my head is gonna explode, I can't figure this out. I am sorry in advance that this is such an elaborate thread.... I added 2 identical WD 1/2 TB green drives to my rig, and I want to re install windows on that...