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Hi, I have Windows 7 OS and the display gets blacked out after 10 -15 mins of start up. I hear Hard disk sound by which I assume that processor is running in the background. I tried reinstalling OS but unfortunately my DVD reader is unable to detect Windows 7 OS CD, whereas it is able to detect...

Hi iam new to this forum. i recently bought a vaio VPCX113KG off ebay. after a month of use the pc wont boot. it comes up as "operating system not found" but the laptop doesn't have an optical drive and I can find downloadable recovery media. what should i do ? i think the hard disk is being...

New ASUS notebook doesn't complete windows 7 installation Hi Experts Client of mine has bought his notebook ASUS U31S with external DVD drive yesterday and he asked me to install windows 7 ultimate (origin was windows 7 home edition) beside other operating system Linux and Solaris...

Hello Guys long time no posting here, hope you are doing well 1- Random Crashes/Freezes and auto-hard-restart everyday 2- Blue Screens Of Death "with different details every time" also randomly 3- this begun when my old 9500 GT broke out 4- after i removed that card, i used the built-in gpu...

I have here the following partitioning on my hard disc 1 primarypartition firstWin7system 2 SystemReservedPartition bootable active hidden 3 primarypartition otherWin7system 4 extendedLogicalPartition otherStuff When I boot now I got the boot selection menu from partition 2...

I used CrystalDiskInfo to see if my hard disk is working fine and it shows the message as 'Caution'.I am attaching a screenshot of it below.Is my harddisk safe or i risk losing data??? Link Removed Thanks in advance.

Like the topic title says, in 2009 had upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. This weekend my hard disk crashed after about 6 years of good service. While I downloaded the upgrade, also got a backup disk sent that allowed me to do a full install of Windows 7. So, after installing a new hard...

Hi, I have had this computer for quite some time, probably a year and a half to two. I started having BSOD after several months, but it was rather rare. I noticed it happened a little more frequent about half a year ago, where I played more flash games on facebook. My computer randomly reboots...

i'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and its working great , lately i wanted to install windows 7 alongside Ubuntu because there's no itunes on it, the problem is W7 can detect my Hard Disk and it says a driver is required ,thought that W7 has all the sata drivers ,i've installed W7 a millions times before...

Describes how to restore a previous Windows installation by using the Windows.old folder after you install Windows 7. This article assumes that you did not format the hard disk partition before you installed Windows 7. More...

I am not sure: Can I plug-in (and -out) a SATA cable (to hard disc) from (ASUS) motherboard slot when computer is running? Or will this cause a damage to hardware? Peter

Fixes a problem in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 where various Stop errors occur when you try to resume a computer that has a large SATA hard disk. More...

Hi, Earlier I cleared my registry with CCleaner. It told me to restart and I had a weird error saying "Hard disk is imminent" etc. I don't know why this has come up, maybe CCleaner has deleted a registry it shouldn't. I tried to re install Windows but it won't happen. Any ideas?

i have a laptop that had windows 7 and worked (an HP Pavilion dv6). for various reasons i decided to reinstall windows 7 and bought a copy from PC World. i reinstalled it and it loaded and worked briefly (a few hours) but then wouldn't boot, going to "install repair" and saying it couldn't be...

When your Windows-based computer has been idle for an amount of time that is sufficient to make your hard disk turn off, your hard disk may not turn off. For example, even though your setting is set to 3 minutes, your hard disk might not turn off until... More...

I have an Advent Roma 2001 configured, in PC World style, with a "recovery partition" alongside the system partition and, after resolving a hard disk problem, I found that the machine would not start/boot Windows 7. clearly some necessary files are missing or corrupted, but the normal system...

I get BSODs before Windows7 even starts to load. I can't get in through Safe Mode, I still get BSODs. I've tried System Restore, it won't restore, probably because of the BSOD, 0x8000ffff. I've tried everything in the Advance Recovery Method and Startup Repair. It said something about my hard...

Hi. I have a text file on my portable hard disk (WD 250 GB) named urgenttttttttttt.txt you would have already assumed how important this file would be and it is updated daily. The size of the file is 545 kb which is HUGE for a notepad. I opened the file 3 days ago and it gives me an error...

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Please,help me.I don't know how this happened and it is really strange.Everything was good with my hard drive but now the last time I opened my pc I noticed something really odd.In ''My Computer'' folder my Local Disk icon had changed.Instead of being an icon that displays a disk,it is an icon...