installation dvd

Hi, I have a Windows 8 Dev. Preview, I burned it on DVD and Installed it, the Win8 is installed on the C partion (without asking me which partion to install on) which has my original Win7, Since both of them are Win I thought that Win8 will give the choice of which to boot Win 8 or 7, it did but...

I am trying to run the "character map" program that is a standard part of Windows. I get an error..."C:\windows\system32\GetUName.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error". Is there a safe place to download a new copy of the dll and once downloaded, how do I replace...

Hello, i have windows 7 Today I was working on my pc For a while it Frozen i Pressed on the Reboot boton i know this is the Reason of my problem turn off or rboot from the boton after that i saw the black screen i dont know waht to do i press ctrl+alt+delt but Nothing happens the task...

Hi there. I'm having a problem that I've never had in the 12 years I've been glued to my computer screen. A couple of days ago I decided to go with a dual-boot setup, Linux and Windows. I didn't keep the dual-boot for more than a couple of hours so I decided to format my drives. After...

I have just installed wind on my comp, since installing have found problems with operating system(bad install suspected) Have tried formatting the drive using format in my comp but it refuses to let me format. How does one format the drive with wind 7 installed? Will inserting the windows 7 DVD...

Hi Folks, MS just recently re-released their "improved" GUI tool to create a USB flash installer for Win 7 all versions. As you may or may not know their original release was found to be in violation of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) and they removed it from the MS store because of...

Hi all, first post! So I have a new laptop that came with 32-bit Windows 7. The system restore DVD it came with contains ONLY 32-bit Windows 7, mainly because the system shipped with 2GB DDR3 RAM. I added another 2GB to bring the total to 4GB. Would it be possible to purchase an Upgrade copy...

I have the upgrade disk/s for 3 systems (family pack) ....sys1 was fine and successful.....in the process of updating system 2, the upgrade install required SP1 be installed on the existing Vista S/W......well, the system crashed during that process and the system failed to boot but offered a...

hi i have a laptop with windows 7 and it worked great until today, i saw a article about removing system reserved partition, so i removed it by booting with win7 installation dvd but after that my laptop wouldnt boot, it only shows "operating system was not found" and i tried this way...

Upon installation of Windows 7 check that your drives are visable by Disk Manager, if not you will have problems as time passes, most notable is the inability to do disk fragmentation either by the built in defragmenter or by programs such as Perfect Disk. The operating System will perform like...

I have compaq laptop with vista basic want to load windows 7 in D drive, I downloaded windows 7 and burned to a dvd at 2 X speed wiith power iso. The DVD loads correctly but I get the following error message "load driver - A reqd CD/DVD driver device is missing. if you have driver floppy disk...

I am trying to do a clean instal of Windows 7. What I want to do is clear ie format the hard drive and then instal the OS. What I get using available options is a copy of my old OS (Vista) in a folder(library) along with other debris on my C drive. I have tried booting from the DVD but with the...

Here is my boot manager info retrieved using the command line command: bcdedit As you can see the upper {bootmgr} area is pointing to the wrong device - partition=L I don't know why since this volume never had a OS installed? In windows 7 using computer management/disk management it shows the...

Hi, I have a problem starting up W7 in dual boot. I did a clean install of the W7 RTM on the second partition of my (sata) HDD. After installation I didn't get a dual boot menu to choose my OS (Vista or W7) I forced a dualboot menu with Vistabootpro, but when I choose the W7 option, I get...

Windows 7 boot.ini [Solved] Hello users of this forum, Im in big trouble, cause i need to access my computer but it´s not booting, when time to boot it tells me that the boot.ini is damaged. The main problem is that i only have here a DVD with windows RT, and now im running Windows 7...

i've completed the install for windows 7 ultimate x64 twice and no luck, it goes through everything perfectly, then it reboots to finish the installation and the progress bar moves... but then it blue screens and restarts. After the restart it will start loading windows 7 then display and error...

To start, I'd love to post more detailed system specs, but I cant even get into the OS. I had a Dell Workstation 380 with 7, sporting an extra (NOT the one with the OS) 750GB HD that failed. I deemed the case unworthy and built what is essentially a new rig. Mobo: Gigabyte EP43 UD3L with the...

I tried to install the W7 Release Candidate into a new Partition on my XP machine and, following the 2nd reboot of the installation, my PC now comes up as far as the Boot From CD prompt and just sits there:( If I put the installation DVD in the drive, restart and boot from the disk, it comes up...

Any ideas how to put in compatibility mode to accept the dvd or do I need to download software and then how would I make that compatible. It worked in beta just forgot.

Hello, I am faced with a real big problem. Recently I've lost all my data due to a RAID problem and had to use a full system image backup I was able to make before the crash. Here's the catch: I use a Core2Quad with 2 SATA drives on RAID 0 and Vista 64 ULTIMATE. I have the windows installation...