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I dont remember doing anything wrong on my computer then browsing youtube, the web, messenger, watching videos and doing my homework on word. My acer has 500 GB HDD and 4 GB memory. All of the sudden while I was working, my computer starts being slow and not responding to my actions quickly...

Hi, I want to do a reinstall of my windows 7 installation and I currently have bitlocker with usb key authentication(no tpm). So I'm wondering if I will run into any troubles if I just reinstall over the old windows as I would rather not have to format the drive. What will happen. Will...

Hi, My PC (Windows 7) has two internal hard drives (C & D) and "C" is reserved for the operating system;" D" for my Data. For some time, I have also had two external "USB 2" hard drives (250GB & 500 GB), which recently, I have replaced by two "USB 3" One TB WD My Book 3 Essentials hard...

I have 3 operating systems on my Computer. Drive C is Active and Primary and has Win Xp. Drive D has Wind 7 Drive E is used for my data and backups. after that i installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. i have the concepts about the boot loader. i dont want to keep XP now. and want to format...

About a week or so ago my asus laptop messed up and i got stuck doing a clean install of win 7. At first it would go straight to 100% on copying windows files and wouldn't do anything else so i reformated the drive. After that it started saying i had insufficient memory on the drive even...

Something totally wierd and shocking happened with my machine running on Windows 7 today (25-06-10). This is what happened, everything was working fine till the evening. I was back home from a hard day, started my machine and i saw a message that windows has updates that needs to be...

I need some serious help guys. I'm not exactly dumb in the field of computers but this one has me stumped. Half of the folders on my computer are locked for absolutely no reason. My friend did something by accident (he doesn't know what) and now all my folders with itunes (music) and my...

installed windows 7 ultimate(tried both 64 and 32 bit) to my pc. but after installation when it reboots for the 1st time, it shows a black screen with the mouse pointer. i waited 1/2 hour but no use.:frown: my pc config core2quad q6600, asus P5KVM, 2 gb ddr2 ram, nvidia 9600gt 512mb and 380 gb...

Bonjour Ã* toutes et Ã* tous, J'espère que vous allez pouvoir m'aider Ã* résoudre un problème. Ayant eu un pb avec un dd, on m'a passé un dd sur lequel était installé Windows 7 RC 7100 sur windows XP Pro. Installation non effectuée en Dual boot mais existe un dossier windows.old. Je...

Hi! I need to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, again. (if you recall my last post, you know why :) ) I'm going to wipe the drive and reformat and then reinstall Windows 7. My problem is that I have some games installed which have rather large updates that I had to DL (took an hour...

Okay, I'm stumped. When I go under "Uninstall a Program", most of my programs aren't even there. At all. It shows 25 of them, when I have much, much more. I can still use all of my programs (I'm pretty sure!), so what's up with THAT? Secondly, I can't use ReadyBoost on my flash drive anymore...

I'm running windows 7 (Release candidate) and I have a usb that is requesting a format and certain occurred as a result of the usb getting an electric shock. How? I had the usb plugged into my laptop while it was switched on and I plugged in an ethernet cable to the laptop. It happened as I...

Apologies for this, as I know this has probably been covered multiple times. I have read everywhere, but cannot get this to work. Here's the set up: I have a WD MyBook connected to my new Win7 notebook. I right clicked on the drive and selected advanced sharing. I called the shared name...

Hi. I have 5 hard disks on my computer (four SATA internal + one external). I was able to get disk management in W7 to work one time. It reported one of my hard disks incorrectly, telling me I have a 2 Teribyte drive when I do not have it. I attempted a reformat (NTFS, default). Anyway, after...

I have installed Windows 7-64 and it is running fine. Some of my very old programs will not work in Win 7. Can I install Win XP on another drive in the system and use it for older software? Do I need to do a special format of the other drive, like maybe Fat-32 only or install an even older ver...

I have 3 drives C:\Windows7 D:\Stuff - Windows Easy Transfer backup X:\WindowsXP External SATA backup I have installed Windows 7 twice and I cannot get it to boot from C:. I get errors saying the boot manager is missing. I have to boot from X: and select Windows 7 from the boot manager. I tried...

hello to everyone, First of all i want to say thanks in advanced to any person who helps me with the problem I am about to present to your guys. I have two hard disk drive(not 1 with 2 partition), first HDD 55GB with Windows Vista Ultimate, and the second HDD 460GB it used to be empty. I...

I did a clean install of Win7 Home Premium form an XP system. Don't ask why but my old XP system was on F: drive. I installed the Win7 on C: drive. Now at startup it keeps asking which OpSystem I want to boot from. I tried formatting F: but it will not let me. How can I a) Get rid of the...

I have windows 7 downloaded, i have burnt it to a bootable disc, and tryed installing it. Everytime it finishes expanding windows files, it restarts and just goes to BSOD with a STOP: 0x0000004e (0x00000099, 0x0004d3ff, 0x00000005, 0x00000001) message it says PFN_LIST_CORRUPT I have tried...

Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...