installation disk

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?

Hi guys im planing on wiping my hard drive and reinstalling windows one problem..... I bought a custom computer and It has the windows product code sticker on the case but in the CD case came the windows CD with booklet but the disk that came is white and says Service Pack 1. Is this the install...

Hi I was answering a question from someone who lost their Windows install disk but had their serial number today and I had this thought. ISO files for Windows 7 are still available from Digital River with Microsofts blessings. The could create a lot of good will if they just made a way for...

I reformatted my hard drive the other night and put OS 8 back on. I was kinda of wondering if I would get OS 8.1 upgrade back in the Windows Store. It was not appearing there. I finally found the answer, a KB file was needed to be added to my registry to get the upgrade to show up in the...

So last night I dropped my wife's laptop about 8 inches onto the floor. It hit the corner with the HDD and then gave me the blue screen of death. I ran the HP disk check which told me the the HDD was damaged. I bought a new HDD to replace the old but I don't have the windows 7 home premium...

So far I know you can make a recovery of 8.1 using a usb drive. Is there any other possibility like buy cds from Microsoft, since I did the free upgrade?

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...

I initially had a problem with my my computer i.e. 'Windows desktop manager stopped working and was closed' - so having tried many potential solutions, and failed, I am resigned to restoring the computer to factory settings. It seems that I have to do with the windows installation disc. But my...

My computer will not boot past the Windows 7 logo. I have tried booting into safe more as well as booting with the last known good configuration. I have also tried booting with the Windows repair disc and windows installation disc but nothing seems to be working. Is it a hardware issue...

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...

Hi all I have found that win8 does not work for me so want to revert back to win7, how do I do that. I have tried booting to my win7 install disk but it just hangs there failing to load, I can do it via the setup file on the disk when running win8 but that does not give me an option for a...

Okay, So it all started with m computer giving me this: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1.Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer. 2.Choose your language settings, and then click "Next". 3.Click...

I have had problems booting up my Toshiba laptop. (Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit) When i would start my computer, Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert you Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose...

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...

First off I'm sure there are many threads on this issue but, I am on my iPod and it takes forever to load and I just don't feel like searching on this thing. I am experiencing a"startuprepairoffline" problem. I try to start my computer and it shows a "launch start up repair" or a "start windows...

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...

I got a custom gaming rig from work with a test copy of Windows Vista on it. I'm having several extremely annoying problems that I was hoping someone could help me with. The test copy only allows me to access an Internet Explorer page but I need to install my wireless USB connection but it...