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I have an Acer Veriton 7600G workstation which I am trying to upgrade with Win 7 In the main it is successful. but I have the known problems of the Ps2 mouse (trackball) and the integrated sound not working. The chipset is an Intel 865G (which they don't provide Win 7 support) and this I...

WE have implemented our 1st Win7 machine overall it's working pretty well. However we have 2 WD passport drives, the machine will discover and open the files on one but not the other. I also tried to access an ide drive through an adaptor and it would not recognise that either. This is a brand...

Hi, after installing win7 ultimate on an additional HDD, neither of my windows 7 installations will boot anymore. XP does. I was using windows 7 evaluation copy until yesterday, when I bought additional HDD and installed 64 bit Ultimate on it. No changes were made to the old HDD with win 7...

I see numerous CD/DVD threads here and mine is similar but somewhat different from any of the others, so I will start an additional thread. I have a home built computer with a Biostar 945GZ Micro 775 Motherboard (Intel 945GZ an ICH7/R chipset), Pentium D 830 3GHz Processor, 2 GB ram, 250 GB...

Ok. I know this is a known issue but I just need to find out for sure before I go spend money again... I bought Windows 7 Ultimate which comes with the 32bit and 64bit dvd's. Right now I have the Windows 7 RC1 32bit installed but as we all know its gonna start acting up in March since it will...

My computer won't boot into XP or 7 anymore after adding/remvoing extra hard drive I have 1 hard drive 3 partitions: 1 XP (C) 2 7 (E) 3 Documents (X) I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows...

I'm attempting to install windows 7 ultimate on a desktop. It's a dual core AMD, 2 gigs of ram, etc. It has a DVD drive out of a HP a640N, which HP says is a Philips DVD8401 (this is a IDE drive, not SATA). I mention this because after I select my language and keyboard type, after it says...

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installs fine at first, but after reboot when it goes through the finalization stage, it suddenly restarts, and says the ''Windows did not install properly, please reinstall''. I've tried switching from DVI to VGA cable like discussed on forums and it didn't work. I...

hi everyone, me and my boyfriend just built a new pc and everything went well except when we inserted the windows 7 dvd..the optical drive does not read it..it only gives us a readme file which says that i have the original copy. the new pc has: ASUS P5QL/EPU LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel...

Cant Instal O.S to HD Hi does anyone know how to solve this error. windows/system32/winload.exe status 0x00000e9 unexpected I/O error I tried to install windows 7 on a older Asrock 775Dual-VSTA Board, however it keeps failing to instal. After i get past the part...

I have 2 SATA drives with the OS on 1 and data on the other. I have a spare IDE drive that I use for backup. What I would like to know is. Will the IDE drive now cause Windows 7 to run slow after the log-in screen? The reason I ask is that the time from login to usability has increased since...

Heyo forum-goers, what I am trying to do is sort of complicated but I'll try my best to explain it. Basically I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of potential out of my nearly outdated machine. First, my relevant system specs: - Windows 7 Pro 64bit - 2 IDE Hard drives - 5400rpm 80GB Maxtor, and...

I have an IDE DVD multi reader/burner (Pioneer DVR-118L) that is showing up in the bios fine I think (I can select it as the first boot drice - it's listed with brand name and everything in the bios) However it doesn't appear in Device Manager or Disk Manager or anything in Windows 7. I have...

I've been using the Win 7 RC for quite a while now, and really have enjoyed it. Ordered a couple copies of the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my wife and I. Got her PC all updated no hitch. Unfortunately, I've been fighting the process on my system all night long. It's just been one thing...

So here's the situation: I have a 300GB IDE drive partitioned into three parts, and a new Western Digital 1 TB drive I just bought, along with a 500gb, and an 80 gb for my OS. Windows 7 recognized all of the drives, and all three partitions when I installed it, but after the installation was...

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...

My MB recently died and I upgraded almost the entire bank of components within the case. Had a copy of WinXP SP2 but would not load, so tried Ubuntu after previewing and digesting... Long story short, ended up using 'killdisk' to remove Ubuntu, subsequently installed Windows 7 Ultimate. Going...

Sorry for the long post :( I have 7 hard disks, all SATA 3 - are a hardware based raid 5 array 4 - are a raid-5 dynamic volume. All disks are intact no damage. Dynamic volume was used 2 hours ago, no issue I wanted to load windows 7 on it to see how it would perform on this machine. So...

im trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x86 (final RTM version) on my dad's mini-ITX build but i am getting an error message that says "DVD device driver is missing" please install driver yadda yadda. but where in the world do i get a DVD driver? its booting off the DVD drive...

Hello, I'm new here. I recently installed Windows 7 RC 32-bit on a Seagate 300GB IDE drive. I also have XP on a separate IDE drive. I am able to dual boot successfully. My problem is that I have a Seagate 1.5TB SATA drive that I can use in XP, but W7 does not see or recognize it. I'm...