recovery disc

Hi the question i have is that I right now have Windows XP installed but i want to put Vista on instead. I don't have a Vista installation disc but i have the Vista Recovery Disc i got when i purchased my computer. Question is will i be able to Uninstall XP and install Vista via the Recovery...

Posted in incorrect forum: Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSoD 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hardware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for...

Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSod 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hard ware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for drivers and reboot freezes...

HI, I have bought a Lenovo Y550 IdeaPad with Windows 7 64 bit home premium preinstalled. While creating recovery disc, it fails with error saying "Cannot find service partition". I can also see the service partition, when actually it should be hidden. Is this a laptop issue or Windows 7 issue...

hello guys, i am planning to install windows 7 very soon but am worried that while installing windows 7,vista will be completely formatted if doing a fresh installation in-case if i don't like it, can i re-install vista using the recovery disc?my pc came with vista installed on it so i dont...

I am using windows 7 32 bit. Hp dv5 1050ei,core 2 duo, 3gb ram 2ghz. it was before vista on my laptopand i clean installed windows 7 and from last 2 months it was working fine but tonight when i was starting my laptop it doesnt started and it was black screen completely. i tried many times but...

I have now got Windows 7 on my laptop. I have window7 7 professional and want to make a complete image as I have all my applications set as I like them. My laptop does not have a CD/DVD drive. I sent the system image and backups to an external USB drive. When I went to make the "system recovery...

in the past I have used Acronis TrueImage software to create full system images of my system. that way if somethign goes really wrong i can just restore the entire system from the acronis image and be good to go. It looks liek windows backup has a way of doing a full system backup/restore and...

Alright, so I downloaded Windows 7 last week onto my memory stick, and just tried installing it last night. Seems like I ran into a HUGE problem. The setup was going quickly and smoothly choose clean install. Until I got to the very end when it seems like it froze at "Windows is Completing...

As you may know, you cannot make a clean install of Windows 7 upgrade on a formatted disc. You can only install this OS on a hard disc that has a previous version installed (XP, Vista, whatever). So, if you bought a Windows 7 UPGRADE (not the full version), you will have no luck just popping the...

Hi! I'm seriuos... I totally hate the bloatware the manufacturer put on my machine. I resented the "Vista Recovery Disc's" too. Every time I have to re-install Vista, I have to spend long periods of time erasing these programs that they originally put on my machine. And they are intricately...

Hello, I recently used GParted to shrink my XP and Win7 partitions so that I could create a third partition. Since I had some extra space inbetween the shrunk partitions, I moved the Win7 partition as close as I could to the XP partition. I basically moved my partition over a little bit...

I have been using Windows 7 without any major hiccups for about a month. I decided to "upgrade" my Kapersky internet security program to Norton 360 v. 3. That's when the well-documented problems started (e.g. unable to do an "unforced" shut down, unable to use Windows Update, etc.). So I...

I have an extended family members laptop to fix...lucky me. It's a HP pavilion dv5000 with windows xp pro. It has got some serious bugs. My problem is that I cant download any thing because IE 7 is some what dorked up. They have google set as home page. I can access the net and home page comes...

Here's my situation: I have a Gateway T-6836 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A couple days ago I installed PCLinuxOS on the primary drive, partitioning about 60 GB of the drive for the Linux file system, the rest reserved for Windows (250 GB total HDD capacity). After successfully...