installation disk

Hello, I have a problem with my PC boot process, I have a dual boot system with Win7 and Linux mint each on it's own HDD. I have just replaced my motherboard which is a used one that came with no driver/ installation disk. Having got it working ok I was setting up the boot sequence using...

HI, I would like to say Hello to everyone. I have 2 computers, a laptop and a desktop. My laptop is an old Dell Inspiron 1545 from around 2009. My desktop is one I put together myself. The Laptop has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and it had Vista on it when it was new, I bought it used, I put...

Join Date: Oct 2014 win7 pro 32 bit Link Removed Local Time: 17:39 Link Removed Link Removed Recovery Says Wrong Windows Version I have a bootable USB with Win7 Ult on it from which I recently installed Win7 Ult. So I know it's good. Now I get a machine - Win7 Ult - that keeps...

Yesterday, I uninstalled Daemon Tools VHDs in device management and restarted, and after that, I couldn't boot properly anymore, the automatic repair doesn't work, pc refresh is not working because the drive is apparently locked and pc rest is not working either because a required drive...

If F8 does not get me into Safe Mode and I cannot boot in regular mode so the only thing I can boot from is the Installation disk, is there any way I can get into safe mode? I cannot even reinstall because the computer crashes in all scenarios other than safe mode. I know this from before when...

I bought a laptop from an estate sale which has XP as the OS. But it appears that it must have been a corporate machine and there are a number of administrative restrains present. I am thinking that a complete fresh reinstall of XP is the best solution. So my question is, being that I bought...

So I got a laptop a year ago for my birthday with Windows 8 installed on it. [you might recognize this post. I'm ExecutedNebula. I made a new account because I forgot my password.] It was a beautiful HP Pavillion and very good price. I had the "usual" files: Google Chrome, Steam games, and...

So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...

I had my computer custom built for me about 2 years ago from Micro-Center, a computer store near me that sells every PC component you can think of, and they'll put it all together for you too. My PC is still running fast and does everything I need it to do, but I'm ready for a refresh! Overall...

Hello everyone! I've recently run into the following problem: I create system images of my Windows 7 installation on a regular basis. A few days ago, my hard drive failed beyod repair, so I went ahead and bought a new one, assuming that I could then proceed to simply restore the most recent...

Hello, I have unfortunately have to recover my PC due to corrupted files and viruses along with slow frame-rate. This had led me to a rather unusual problem, This is what I am greeted with every time I attempt to recover, No, I do not have the installation disk Can anyone help with this problem?

I have an HP g60 windows 7 Home Premium its almost 3 years old. I started a program (Adobe Flash CS5 portable, I believe) and then I hibernated the laptop. It was taking a longer time than usual to do this so I did a force shutdown by pressing the power button. After an hour I decided to turn...

So, after 3 days of frustration to get the Tux for TF2, I very stupidly uninstalled Ubuntu incorrectly, the result was no longer being able to boot Windows 7. I receive a BSOD after the Starting Windows screen. After some googling, it appeared my Master Boot Record was corrupt. I followed all...

Back Story: I had an issue in the past were my computer would restart overnight (I assume it crashed) and upon trying to start up the computer it would not load Windows 7(W7) most of the time. To get it to load I would have to shut the computer down and leave it off for a while and then it would...

my friend's laptop did not successfully boot and it just keep on restarting after the loading screen appears. The safe mode didn't work either. As well as the installation disk, it get stucked when I press "Repair my computer". And also, when I press F8 and disable "Automatic restart ...... " I...

Over the years, I have gained the desire to revert my computer to factory settings, or rather to the state of a brand new computer with a freshly installed OS. The only problem is that my computer doesn't have any of the convenient services that allow a factory reset to happen internally and...

Hello W7 forums! So not too long ago I rebooted my pc as it was running a bit slow that day, as I was rebooting I got an error (I don't remember it now sorry) and it started startup repair. This startup repair went for almost a week straight before I gave up on it. Not being able to boot into...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone can give me some help on this problem I'm having. I'm doing a favor for a friend and fixing her computer. The problem is that as soon as windows boots up it starts up in Startup Repair. Startup repair does not fix the computer, it gives an error that...

I have a Win 7 desktop with many installed programs as well as much data, but the operating system is acting in such a way that I want to reinstall it, I have the installation disk as well. My question is, how do I go about removing the old O/S & do a clean reinstall. Can I use the Win 7 Backup...

[This is kinda related to HDs, so I hope this is the right place to post] Hi all, here's my problem: 1) I have a PC running Win7 with 3 HDs(not partition, different HDs). 2) I used Win7 to create an image of the OS HD( C: ) and placed it in D. 3) I used the image once or twice so I know it's a...