recovery disk

  1. Windows 10 Please Help! I'll do anything!

    Hello everyone, my name is Clint and I just wasted no time when it came to screwing up my lovely new laptop. I've owned my computers and laptops for the last 30 years and have never posted in a forum for help. So, if anyone here can help me fix this I will forever be in your debt. Let me tell...
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    recovery media and media creation

    My hp recover manager cant locate my recovery partition I bought laptop with pre-installed genuine windows 10. Can I create a new media for windows installation through media creation tool and install windows using it.Will my windows be activated automatically on connecting it with internet (as...
  3. Windows 7 Can't Repair Installation - Says Wrong Version.

    Join Date: Oct 2014 win7 pro 32 bit Link Removed Local Time: 17:39 Link Removed Link Removed Recovery Says Wrong Windows Version I have a bootable USB with Win7 Ult on it from which I recently installed Win7 Ult. So I know it's good. Now I get a machine - Win7 Ult - that keeps...
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    Windows 7 Can't Boot from any source

    Having trouble booting computer after failed Windows 10 update. After cancelling the install restarted machine but only came up with a cursor and a blue background. Got to task manager so changed msconfig to start in safe mode on restart and was going to go back to a restore point. Tried to...
  5. Windows 7 Factory reset - help with removing disk partition and windows 10

    I installed Windows 10 on my laptop a few weeks ago, only to discover that the laptop in question is not compatible with Windows 10 which unfortunately Microsoft forgot to mention when I was offered the free upgrade. I have now done a factory reset to return the computer to Windows 7, but I now...
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    Windows 8 Formatting and reinstalling

    Hi, I had a computer that had corrupted boot files so I decided to format the hard drive using a different computer. After I formatted the hard drive and stick it back into the computer with the windows 8 installation disc but when it loads up I get a error saying that computer needs to be...
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    Windows 7 Resetting user password WITHOUT boot / BIOS access

    Got a bit of a dilema here: my work laptop has a locked BIOS and HDD only boot and I have (foolishly) forgotten the password to the one and only user on the account. Anyone got any solutions that do not warrant the use of boot disks? The USB, SD and disk drive readers work but I have no way to...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 black screen after "Starting Windows"

    Hi I have a Toshiba L500-19X and It keeps rebooting all the time after the "Starting Windows " logo. I have reinstalled Windows 7 using the Toshiba Recovery Disk that I have but I can't get pass the starting logo at all. I have checked the HDD, RAM and CPU but they work fine. I have also tried...
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    Windows 7 recovery disk

    i am looking at selling my gaming pc, so i can build or buy another one, and i am looking at erasing this hard drive, and i was wondering if a recovery disk can reinstall windows? i have lost my book disk. thanks
  10. Windows Vista Restore Computer operation

    I installed the operating system with the reinstalling disk which made it the primary basic OS.Looking in Computer when open, it showed 2 Hard Disk Drives, OS(C:) and Recovery (D:). When I start the computer the Recovery OS is used when started. Looking at OS(C), it shows my original OS. So it...
  11. Windows XP XP Recovery Does Not Work

    Hi guys. I have a problem. My parents have a pc. These are the stats: Windows XP - 32 bit Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz 1,00 GB RAM 48,8 GB HD [22,1 GB free] (if you need more, drop me a line) Their Skype hasn't been working for ages, and I tried to install Windows XP's service...
  12. Windows 8 Bootable Recovery Image Disk ?

    Hi Guys, Hoping some of you can bring me up to speed, I was once an engineer many moons ago but the last systems i worked on were win XP, since that point ive been an end user and havent kept up with the technical side of things. Back with XP or prior i used to use an older version of...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 laptop hard drive dying, need new install

    Okay, so I've hit a panic state lately, and I've came here. My laptop only recently started to do a BSoD with a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR code. Doing checks, diagnostics, SMART readings through Speedfan, I've pretty much realised that this laptop hard drive is reaching the end of its life. After...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Recovery disk not working

    Ive been having a bit of trouble with my windows 7 Toshiba laptop computer lately. It started with my computer running slow one evening so I tried to restart it but when it started up, it blue screened for half a second and shut off. I tried repeating this but it just kept happening. I tried...
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    Windows 8 Confused about Windows 8.1 Recovery Partition!!

    Hi, Just switched out from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit Full Edition and I have to say I am a little confused about Windows 8.1 Recovery. So upon a clean install, three visible partitions are created, Recovery (300mb), EFI (100mb), and the regular Windows partition. (I understand there...
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    Windows 7 Driver power state failure

    I get a Driver_power_state_failure with a stop : 0x0000009F(0x00000004,0x00000258,0x8658F020,0x8397CB24) Yesterday i was working with my computer and i was running a game and fix my pc and it was very slow it got stuck and i forced it down and when i start the pc i get that error. I have...
  17. Windows 8 Windows System Reserved Files Messed Up?

    Just because I could I decided to use the default Windows Back-Up System but I kept getting an Error. I soon discovered that anyone else with a 100MB System Reserved partition had this Error. I tried many things to expand the partition with no luck. So I just made a new partition and used CMD to...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Error boot bcd

    Ok I have a toshiba satellite L305D-S5974. I was having trouble with my computer starting up it would say windows starting but the the screen would be black with the mouse thing on it but it wouldnt do nothing after that so I did a recovery disk and did a repair. When it restarted windows boot...
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    Windows 7 Creating a recovery disk with drivers

    Hi guys Looking for a bit of advice on creating recovery disks. I have a Dell laptop. I am wanting to completely flatten it and start it fresh (wipe the HD / reinstall windows ect). how do i create a recovery disk that also includes all the drives? I've been in a situation before where I...
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    Windows 7 KSOD after using Konboot

    My daughter forgot her password for her netbook running Windows 7 Starter, so first I used Ophcrack, which was unable to get the password. I then proceeded to try Kon-boot 1.0, which bypasses the Windows login screen, only for it to break something. To be fair, it was my fault for not...