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So I have a computer that now has XP/32 and Win7 64, installed all on the same disk, with two partitions that, while in XP, are id'd as C (XP) and H (Win7). Whenever I boot up and choose XP from the Boot Manager I get into XP, no problem. But if I choose Win7 from the Boot Manager, then I get...

Hello, I cannot seem to fix my laptop. It is a ACER aspire 574o Below is the bsod details that I have gotten(there are more if they are needed to help, the attatchments are included for the .dmp files) and im not sure how to know whats wrong. I have installed new OS windows 7 ultimate, and...

Hi there, My name is Dan and I have finally installed Windows7 on my XP machine. Its taken me some time but this is no doubt the best OS Microsoft have made in a while. Now..... Knowing my stuff I decided to search around and purchase just the product key from a legit site as I already have...

Hi there, right now I have a non genuine version of Windows 7 Ultimate installed, I'm looking to replace it with a genuine copy of Windows 7 home premium. Could I do this with an upgrade disc or would I need to buy the whole OS? I'm trying to avoid paying 200$ to activate Ultimate.

I am working on my bosses personal desktop. It had windows xp 32bit. Due to a virus the hard drive had to be wiped. He purchased windows 7 (32bit) to be installed. It's an older hp (about 3-4 years) with a intel pro VE 100 network card. the hard drive was completely wiped (including the...

First post :p I have read many posts on this issues, in this forum and others, and no solution worked. So I'm giving it a shot at explaining my situation. I'm trying to create a dua boot with win7 and ubuntu. I want to install win7 first and then the other os. So, using Gparted, if I...

:) hi all, first post here not sure if this is in the right section, sorry if it isnt i have always been wondering why to partition or why not (i dont know exactly which one i perfer) today, i reinstalled windows 7 , so i decided to actually look it up i have two hard drives, so i can have one...

I have a Sony VAIO laptop and tried out Linux on it. This gave me the Grub loader, where when I boot up I choose which OS to use. I want to get rid of Linux, - it uses half of my hard drive. I have two questions: 1. How do I uninstall Linux, getting rid of the Grub loader(it's in my...

So this BSOD happens everytime I try and boot up my computer (Like 3 out of every 4 times), this computer is three months old but it never happened before like.. last wednesday here are the files you ask for Is Windows 7 . . . - x86 (32-bit) or x64 ? 64bit - the original installed...

Hi while i was installing Windows 7( 32 bit) in my PC having 320 GB hard disk in 5 partation each about 65-70 GB size. during windows installation i formatted one partation ( It was a logical device) to install windows inside it. but after partation it show it as EXTENDED device. and...

Hello and good evening. Recently I installed windows 7 on computer, every thing worked great and i was enjoying windows 7 BUT there was a RAW space on my hard disk so i decided to make them 2 primary partitions, let say that my OS partition (Drive C) was about 30GB and there was 119 GB raw...

Hello I recently had much trouble with my computer and was reinstalling OS many times! XP and win7. When i was installing windows 7 there were 3 virtual drives one about 400 mb named windows reserved and 2 others each (300gb) the 3d one was backup I formatted first 2 deleted partitions, made...

I am still quite puzzled as to how are you supposed to install the Windows 7 OS without an actual CD? I've only done it previously with XP home edition and I had a CD so this is new to me and would appreciate some clarification. If you still do not understand what I mean, I'm confused on how...

Got an interesting one. I have one PC left running Vista that has two sets of spanned volumes as follows: All drives are dynamic. Silicon Image 3124 SATA Controller Card: Port 0 - 1TB Port 1 - 1TB Port 2 - 500GB Port 3 - 500GB Marvell Controller on MB Port 4 - 500GB Port 5 - 500GB...

Urgent...Please help me.....help for mac on vmware Dear respected mods and members.... i need ur serious and kind help in this case....as i am stuck somewhere,i am myself advanced user but i cant sort it out.... i have mac osXLink Removed 10.5.6 dmg (retail),i converted it to iso with ultraiso...

I am trying to install XP Professional onto a friends laptop and I have caught a little snag. I installed it from the hard drive with a setup.exe. I went through the setup and it restarted a couple of times and I think I am done until after a restart I get a pop up saying...

OK guys hope you can help me I just bought son a new pc installed windows 7 ultimate and keep getting these bsods, anyway a bit of background, I did have a gtx260 installed but I have removed this as I thought this was the cause and I was gonna rma it, I have tested the ram with memtest86+ , the...

Hey folks. I've had Windows 7 ultimate 64bit (retail) for about 7-8 months now. Just recently put together a new computer rig a few weeks ago and lately, its been notifying me to re-activate my windows 7 for some reason. And when I type in my key, it says "The product key you typed cannot be...

Hi All, Alright heres the deal I have A Dell Inspiron 1564 laptop its got ~400 gig of HDD space. Now those idiotic people who installed my O/S thought 50 gig would be enough for anyone.. anyway My C: has my OS installed and I just have 4 gig of space after installing stuff on it and I have...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...