pc troubleshooting

ohk this might sound dumb, but my mate has an oem version of windows 7 on his pc but his hard drive has failed and i was just wondering if it can be wiped of the broke drive then installed onto a new drive with same product key? thanks

What is happening, is that all of my windows os's are installing correctly, but when the PC boots up, the screen is not fitting my screen, and there is a black border around it, and I don't know what to do!! I have been trying to figure it out for a while now, and cant. Someone please help.

Hello everybody; First of all im using 8.1 for a while now and when i put my computer into sleep mode it sleeps for 2 hours or something and opens again by itself. I tried to fix it from settings and stuff but it didnt work. Please help me. (I can give any info bout my PC if you need it) Thank you!

Hi WindowsForum members, · Windows 7 Service Pack 1 · x86 · My OS is retail version. · Some of my hardware is already 3 years old, some of it is 2 years old. · Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS? · My OS is 1 year old, before this problem occur, I already has other problem...

Hey All, So I am pretty sure that my Windows 7 home premium installation has become corrupted somehow. I've just noticed thins not 'working' well and have been experiencing more and more BSODs over time. I have ran many disk / system file checks (sfc /scannow), and it states that there are...

I don't understand this at all. Why did they take away this VERY important function? You can no longer drag and drop pictures to and from dropbox to a folder on your computer! This is so aggravating that I feel like throwing my computer in the trash. I cannot use skydrive. It won't link to it...

This PC started having erratic behavior, then everything went downhill. Sometimes it will boot up into Windows, but quickly freeze up, with no response at all, no choice but to force reboot. Most of the time it will not reboot at all, giving me a message to select a boot drive. The BIOS...

I am working on a PC that has proved to be rather troublesome. It will NOT install USB devices through windows update or by pointing to system32/driverstore. When I point to system32/driverstore it says "USB Composite Device - the system cannot find the file specified." These are devices that...

How do I back out of a failed Win7 install attempt? I started a Win7 installation on an XP system and some files were installed on my c:\ drive that force me to chose between proceeding with the Win7 install or using XP. Because of the error messages that the Win7 install generates, I'd like...

Hi My PC is windows 7, I purchased win8 on release day and installed without issue until today today I restored my windows 7 to day 1 and as such it has removed the win8 dual boot system and directly loads win7 I have since got back win8 but it now does this via the old win7 dual boot I know...

For months now , i can't even restart my pc in any form because the only way to get it to boot properly is in Safe Mode and the usual System Restore...when the arrow symbol pops up it just sits there and when i move the mouse the screen gets darker..i've updated and ran Malwarebytes quite a few...

I recently installed a HD (WD25EZRX). it's been operating normally for about 2 days. i was using my comp when i saw an alert that said something about a hard drive error and that my PC needed to be reset to fix it. so i reset the PC and saw another message saying something about restoring to...

Hello guys! :) I just installed the new Asus GTX 660Ti graphics card and upgraded the driver to the latest version from nVidia. Played couple of high end games at ultra settings without any issue and did shutdown the PC safely. At night , I turned it on again to play but within about 4...

For the last 3 years I've been successfully copying all my data including Outlook.pst file from my Win 7 desktop to my XP laptop. The data is transferred from PC to laptop by Synctoy 2.1 which is really quick and easy and of course only adds, deletes or overwrites new or modified files. The...

Hi, I have 2 computers Dell w XP and HP w Vista I installed a new hard drive in both systems When I attempt to install on the HP the error message I receice is Critical Process Died, and when I attempt to Recover the next two error messages are 0x0000001 and 0x80070570 The only...

Hello , my PC has recently began to crash at random times and when i restart it and log in , a "blue screen error " message appears. This isn't the BSOD. The PC has been crashing for about 2 months and its getting really annoying. Please share any idea you have that might fix this problem. Thanks!

Hello there. After literally months of trying to figure out what is going on with me/my boyfriend's computer and trying numerous things... I have given up trying to do it on my own. I need help. I'm not that computer savvy (but I follow instructions well) so I may have to have help in a lot of...

Hello, I've had an ongoing war with my PC for four days now. I have Windows 7 and it refuses to start up. Originally I tried starting up normal, it gave me two choices: system repair or start as normal. If I chose normal it would show the windows logo then reset. If I chose repair it would turn...

Hi there, It's all about my friend's PC and it has the following configuration: MB: Asus P5B-E CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 RAM: 2X Kingmax 512MB DDR2 667MHz => 1GB VGA: Nvidia GeForce 7300le OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x86 The first thing i want to do is to buy a new single RAM...

Hello! I Just bought a new computer, had windows 7 ultimate 64 bit installed and some ususall programs, but im getting bsod whenever i open any internet browser, such as internet explorer, chrome, or mozzila. Then i tried to run it in safe mode with networking - still crashing, but in safe mode...