formatting

I have removed all the partitions on my hard drive(which was probably stupid) so that i could start from scratch. The problem i have is that when i try and use the windows 7 installation disk i get a message saying that my hard drive needs a partition. I have a created a ntfs partition with...

Hi all, I've just used HP Recovery from boot up (F11) to begin a reinstallation of windows 7 on an HP Pavillion dv7. The Recovery process began, and went through formatting the disc to 100%, but after re-booting, all I get is a completely black screen. Nothing at all appears on the...

Hey guys, I tried to format my HDD during installation proces and there was no option to perform this task. It just gave me the option to install Win XP on that drive in the same folder or to install it in the other one (I did it anyway, so now I just have 4 Gb of free space, instead of 30). Any...

Hi, I had a computer that had corrupted boot files so I decided to format the hard drive using a different computer. After I formatted the hard drive and stick it back into the computer with the windows 8 installation disc but when it loads up I get a error saying that computer needs to be...

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Hi, new poster here. I've posted this to the Win 8 forum, but it could equally apply to Win 10. I have 3 windows machines at home - netbook, laptop and desktop. The netbook was bought with Win 7 has never had a personalised lock screen, now it's on Win 10 it has a generic Microsoft one. The...

I successfully upgraded Win 8.1 to Windows 10 via Windows Update. I also created an install DVD using the Media Creation Tool. Sometime soon I would like to do a clean install using this DVD, so I can get rid of a lot of junk on my PC and start out new. I assumed I would just put the DVD in my...

I Reserved the Win 10 free upgrade on my Win 7 (sp1) PC long back but Yesterday due to some malware my pc got infected so I had to formatt & reinstall it.. Just 2 Days Before Win 10 upgrade Launch & now (after formatting & reinstall) I have updated my win 7 pc to sp1 & installed all the updates...

Hi, suddenly the attached popup pops every time I click on the mouse in IE on any site. I formatted C:\ recently & installed win8 pro with my DVD & upgraded to w8.1pro online. Can you help please ............thanx ........nick PS. sorry for 2 fotos, cannot delete one. Home build, Asus P5K...

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Hello! (My first thread here!) My mom bought a laptop online (I know how it sounds...). It's Lenovo's Thinkpad x240. Problem is, it appears to be running a pirated Windows 7. (Also it's not a clean installation, but just a computer that somebody used for some time. So I'd like to format it.) I...

Mads Kristensen is back, today with a VS Extension that will help VS Extension builders build Extensions. That is so meta I had to highlight, even through it's currently at v0.2 (might be at 0.3, 0.4 by the time you read this... :) Speaking of Mads, are are few other recent times we've...

I need urgent help. I recently finished building my gaming PC, so I brought Windows 8.1 for my OS. I stuck in the x64 bit DVD and waited. It was on "Preparing files for installation" all of a sudden, my power goes off. I turn the PC on and start the DVD again, and after choosing the install...

Right, firstly, new here, so apologies if this is poted in the wrong place/ section. Having a problem with an external HDD. When connected to a computer, windows will recognise it, but when I try to open it to view files, I get the following message: F:\ is not accessible 'The volume does...

Hi I'm sitting here making the second backup of everything on the drive I'm going to install the new build on. I'm a worrier, what if my backup drive failed right after I wipe my hard drive? LOL Unfortunately I installed all of my Windows 10 software on this drive so I have to format it and...

I have a laptop with RedHat Linux installed. I want to replace it with Windows XP. When I boot up with the XP disk in the drive it doesn't recognize the file system and stops. It does not give me an option to partition and format the drive in order to install XP. I've been out of the...

Hi. I have a dell inspiron i5 core, and the 'dell backup and recovery' thing is not working. I called tech support and they told me to format my PC but I have a lot of important data ( about 130 GiB ) and I have a separate partition for that data. I just want to make sure that if I do a...

Can't install Windows 10 Technical Preview from DVD. Downloaded ISO file & burnt on DVD. First try, I had the C drive of a laptop's hard drive formatted & tried to install Windows 10 Technical Preview from DVD to this C drive. But the DVD could not start the computer & said, "BOOTMGR is...

Hi I'm not really having a problem, but I don't understand why my D:\ drive shows as 2 drives in Disk Manager. I got this way when I tried to move space from what was my Windows 8 C:\ drive to the D:\ partition. If you click Properties you get the same information for either one, which show it...

Hi, i have just bought a sandisk 64gb extreme pro sdxc memory card for my camera, it works fine in the camera and saves pics to it, but every time i open it in windows it tells me i have to format the card, when i do format it, it goes through the whole process and then tells me the operation...