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I'm planning on doing a clean install of Windows 8.1 Pro tomorrow. The reason for the clean install is due to me currently having the leaked 8.1 Update on my pc currently. Anyway, can I just format my partition Windows is on by itself and leave the recovery and uefi partitions alone ? Will 8.1...

I just bought a new SSD drive and installed windows 7 on it, i still have the previous windows 7 install on another drive. I tried to format my old HDD drive but it doesnt work, because windows is still install on it !! How do I do to format or uninstall windows ??

Hello , I have an old Hp compaq nc8000 and i've see that in 47 Days from now Windows XP SP3 32bits will no longer be supported by Microsoft so no more security updates for it, I want to format my Pc and install Windows 7 but i don't know if my computer will handle it and if he would be too slow...

Hi guys and girls so here's the thing. Ive found my old desktop in the loft about 8 years old and took the HDD out of it. I bought a IDE to usb cable and can see the files that were on the old HDD so doesn't seem like theres much wrong with it apart from being clogged with a few years of...

So I've been using this computer to connect wirelessly to a router in another part of the house for the past few months. Then one day, I started getting this 'Windows was unable to connect to SSID' error message. I've tried the below :- Disabled and enabled the wireless adapter. No effect...

Have a Dell laptop, started getting the start windows normally or repair screen, each option did nothing. Windows 7 64-bit and it's a DELL-Inspiron 15-3521 Decided to just reformat, didn't have anything important on it. After a lot of trial and error I'm lost, I deleted the partitions, got an...

I have a wipro laptop. I've just format it and installed windows 7 to it. But when i try to install the chipset drivers it shows a error "The computer does not meet the minimum requirement". But I installed the drivers before. i used the original driver dvd disc that i got with the laptop. When...

Okay, began getting some BSODs, and by the time I realized it was more than coincedence, System Restore window was passed anyway. BSODs kept coming, so I formatted. After format, BSODs continued. Checked HDD, tests were fine. Memtest86'ed for 16 hours, no errors. Tested Ram Dimms individually in...

I am replacing a hhd . win 7 pro 64b desktop pc. with a Seagate 1 T should it be formatted first of will the cloning tool do that also ?

When Windows is reinstalled from the disc (from the "F8" boot window), is the hard drive reformatted automatically? If not how can I achieve this?

I have a Dell OptiPlex 210LN desktop. I try to format my hard drive but getting blue screen every time. For this i do the wipe out from "DBAN" tool, but after wipe out i don't get success. i attach bsod images that appear during xp installation time.

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well here it is i recently got a few viruses on my windos 7 and well my anti virus wouldnt get rid of them 9 to be exact so i figured i would formate my windows compleately with the disk i have for instaling it well heres what happond so i put the disk in and loaded it up then promply clicked...

i have a big problems...........windows could not format a partition on disk 0.the error occured while preparing the partition selected for installation . error code 0x80070057 please help me anyone:(

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Hi there, I'm trying to install windows 7 on my PC (18 months old), I formatted the hard disk, placed the disk in etc. etc. and the installation runs through to the 'Completing Installation' part, where I can see it runs for a while because the ellipses scroll, then it freezes and I can't use...

Hello! I'm new to this forum as I have experienced multiple BSODs over the past month, I would like to hear some advice from experienced people. So over the past month I haven't changed anything except for speakers, but I doubt that this is the cause. The BSODs appear mostly while playing...

I have a computer with Windows 7. I have Windows 7 on a 750 GB HD. Along withthis I have a 3 TB HD that is working, formatted with 1 test file on. I removed the 750 GBdrive and in its place put in a 256 GBOCZ Petrol SSD I disconnected the 3 tb drive I installed Windows 7on a 256 GB SSD...

Guys.. I have been trying to re-install windows 7. I have 3 drives i.e C,D,E. I want to format only C drive. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!