recovery disk

  1. Windows 7 Virus issue- affecting recovery partition?

    Hello, I've been asked to take a look at a computer system earlier this year. The owner had some sort of false FBI warning trying to get money from them. Since I successfully resolved that on another user's computer system, I checked on theirs too. They have what I believe is an HP Pavilion...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 wont install drivers

    I have a Tosh satellite L505D-ES025 that I purchased in May 2010.The hard drive ("HD") failed in June 2012. In checking the Toshiba forum for this model.I have noticed a number of owners have the similar problem with HD failures . Toshiba wants $250 for a replacment drive. I have installed a...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 install won't recognize my hardware

    I have a Tosh satellite L505D-ES025 that I purchased in May 2010. The hard drive ("HD") failed in June 2012. In checking the Toshiba forum for this model.I have noticed a number of owners have similar problems with HD failures . Toshiba wants $250 for a replacment drive. I have installed a...
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    Windows 7 recovery disk

    Just bought new HP laptop. We like to have a recovery disk but don't know how to do it. Because windows is OEM microsoft won't help neither HP. Staples wants to get paid. Can I make one myself and how?
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    Windows 7 "BOOTMGR compressed" HELP

    Hello, I have run into an issue here where I am unable to boot my system anymore. It began when I decided to give the disk compression tool a whirl since I thought it may speed up my system a bit...1st mistake. Since it takes about a million and 15 days to complete I cancelled the...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Bluescreened in inital installation, unable reenter installation

    Good morning dear Win7 Team! I am writing to you today with a problem I did not find in this (or similar form) in previous threads. The challange should however be a small one... Question (i assume): How do I enter the on-harddrive recovery? __________ For the office we have new Acer Laptop of...
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    Windows 7 SSD Install Problem

    My HP laptop HD crashed, am trying to replace it with a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD. I do not have Windows installation disks, only have Windows Recovery Disks. All installation instructions I have found for SSD's is for cloning, which I cannot do since the HD is dead. I have installed the SSD...
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    Windows 7 startup repair and safemode not working

    hi everyone i tried boot my windows normally but it restart with an error and error was showed up for less than 1sec. but some how i was able to get picture of that and link is below Link Removed due to 404 Error And same error come up when i tried to boot in safemode and it restart again and...
  9. Windows 7 Help! No boot up at all

    I'm pretty new to computers and dont know what to do. While i was trying to download a program to allow my Bluetooth to work with my win7 home premium 64bit it somehow seems to have uninstalled all of the data on my hard drive or something along those lines. so i purchased the recovery disc and...
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    Windows 7 Recovered files from a Biohd-8 hard drive error and wanted to know which files can I copy back to ha

    I recently recovered my data from a biohd-8 error. Can someone please tell me which files can I copy back to a hard drive in order for my system to start again and make it useable again. I do not know if any of the files were damaged in the recovery process. 1) If I am able to restart my...
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    Windows 7 system image restore error 0x80042407

    I am trying to restore a bran new install of win 7 with a sytem image created previously before a hardware failure. The machine is a lenov think center Clean install installed and the image is about 70 gig It is house on a 1tb external drive The internal drive on the machine is 160gb I get to...
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    Windows 7 New HD in desktop, how to reinstall Windows 7 OS

    Hello. Recently my computer experienced a Windows OS error which caused my hard drive to become inoperable and unreadable even by external devices. I've since purchased a new hard drive and am ready to install it into my computer. This computer was store-bought and originally came with a copy...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 will not start up

    Help! My Windows 7 computer will not start up. I have an HP HDX 18T laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate. It was working fine until this morning when the log in screen froze after the computer woke up from standby. I held the power button down until the computer restarted. The startup process was...
  14. Windows 7 Harddrives Apparently Corrupted after attempted to install a second harddrive

    Everything I did recently that might contribute to the problem- I was hoping to make a dualboot comp by adding windows XP to a new partition. I created the new partition with 20gb. (From the 500 of my actual harddrive) But before I actually installed on that, I got distracted with a second...
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    Windows 7 BSOD - Nothing Works

    Hello All, Okay. About a week ago when I started up my computer, it went straight to Windows Error Screen with 2 options to either launch startup repair or start windows normally. Neither worked and when disabling system failure gave me the BSOD with the error message unmountable_boot_volume...
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    Windows 7 Need Help with Windows 7 Home Premium Boot

    I have a Dell Studio 15 with Core i7 740 processor, 4 GB RAM and 500g HDD. Windows 7 Home Premium Factory Installed I have installed Linux Mint 10 last month and everything was so fine. I have deleted the Linux Partition by mistake and my default boot was using GRUB. So i got a GRUB...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 with a Vista boot screen

    Ok, I caused it but I am wondering if anybody ever heard of this and if I can change it back. I am running windows 7 and I booted into safe mode to do a sfc /scannow. I was having another small issue and thought that I would just do that to check if it would fix it. After I rebooted I got a...
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    Windows 7 BOOTMGR is missing

    Hi I am trying to help my sister fix her computer, but I am not able to figure out what to do. Her computer is an HP laptop it is runnung windows 7 . I have created the recovery disk( 32 bit) from online as that is what most sites said to do. After it said it was loading the windows files I...
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    Windows 7 Need help with tranfer my windows 7 drive to a diffrent drive

    Need help with tranfer my windows 7 drive to a different drive I have 2 drives: c: which contains the windows and d: for everything else. 1. I've used "backup and restore" and created drive image on a usb hard-drive. 2. i've formated drive c: booted with "ubuntu" and copied all my flies to c...
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    Windows 7 Backup software question for Mike & Super Sarge

    Thanks, in advance. I have seen how helpful you two are by browsing around here a bit. Mike, I got the Paragon software after seeing your YouTube tutorial, but my recovery disk program did not look like what you recorded. Could be you have a paid version, maybe they dumbed down the latest free...