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Hello, i recently bought a new hard drive to put my os on, and i stupidly changed my old hard drive type from basic to dymainic, and its not letting me reformat it or convert it back to basic. When i try it says "Windows cannot format the system volume on this disk." Does anyone know how i can...

All right so first ill give some of the basic specs of my system. I have the following hardware: Phenom II x4 955 CPU ASRock 870 Extreme 3 motherboard Corsair vengeance 8gb RAM An 850 OCZ PSU a HDRadeon 6870 GPU and a basic optical drive also, i...

Hi I've had this BSOD a few times now, can't seem to find a solution for it.Thanks!! EDIT:Is Windows 7 . . . - x86 (32-bit) or x64 ? 64 bit - the original installed OS on the system? fresh install - an OEM or full retail version? - Full Retail - What is the age of system (hardware)? days - What...

No changes were made since last boot. Attempted to follow instructions posted here: windows 7 bootmgr is missing-- resolved using WinRE - Microsoft Answers Method 1: Message states a fix was made.Root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid System Partition. Repair action...

I have a new computer build where I have Win 7 Pro 64-bit installed on a SSD. Then I have a pair of 1TB drives that I setup as mirroring drives in Disc Management. I proceeded to setup my windows backup to the mirrored drive, but it is giving me the warning: When restoring a system...

Hi ! Another 'lost' soul found his way to the forums. Pleased to meet you. So, Im doing a clean windows 7 install. Here are the facts: Disk is 2TB, partitioned into 3 (in this order): 1480GB, 300GB & 105GB. (Partitions also show in this order @ the point where you select what disk to install...

I have Window 7 Home Premium Installed on My HP Pavilion Dv6 i5 Notebook. I have only 1 Partition. I want to Install another Window and thats why i want to Make Another Partition for it (I Know About Shrinking of Drive but i won't do it because it make the shrinked Partition Dynamic, Which...

Okay I've had my Acer Aspire 5517 for 3 years and it just now failed me. Yesterday I was on YouTube listening to music from there and I left it up for about 15 minutes and when I came back it had stopped responding( the browser) and it had restarted itself. Then as it started to restart it had...

My setup: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on ThinkPad T510. 1HD, two partitions (C and D). I just reinstalled my system and encrypted C; however, there is absolutely no option to encrypt D. I've tried accessing the drive from admin account and still nothing. When I open BitLocker management, it only...

I'm new here so not sure if this is the right place but am hoping someone can help me out. I bought what appeared to be a genuine Windows 7 Pro from Craiglist to save some money - it was shrinkwrap and had a COA outside. I installed this on a new laptop I got for my sister oversees. It installed...

new here so firstly, hi to all. i need some advice please, so hope some can help and am posting in the correct place. will try to describe the issues below. if i am not clear enough, let me know and i will do my best to explain better. anyway, i had win XP and win 7 installed as dual boot on one...

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...