recovery disk

I recently had my laptop crash on me, I recently returned from Iraq and lost all of my recovery disks for vista, so I decided to upgrade to windows 7. I purchased an oem install, and got win7 installed and working, but it decided to stop working for me. When I try to start windows normally the...

I had a barracuda hard drive with windows 7 ultimate 64bit on it, installed it in another pc... now computer starts to boot into windows then restarts, gives the option to go into startup recovery or boot into windows normally, choosing to boot into windows normally results in a loop (computer...

Greetings all! I have one computer here, started off as a boot loop issue, couldnt get into safe mode. I plugged into another computer, it would show up as a disk, but disappeared and reappeared every 20 seconds asking for a format, when I tried to format, it failed. I used my motherboards...

I have an ASUS X58L with Windows 7 Professional, a downloaded student copy. The issue originates from me installing Ubuntu and on installing updates and restarting I found myself with "grub rescue no such device". After attempting several 'solutions' from pages such as these: Google I am now...

(pardon my w and e keys, they are quite sticky) I've been trying to reinstall Windows 7 on my HP notebook after a virus forced me to and ran into some issues. It was getting to the screen where the final batch of settings was beeing done, and i got a message asking if I wanted to restart now or...

Here is the situation: I installed windows 7 to my inspiron 1720 which had Vista, everything was fine installing the new operating system. The problem starts when installing any program the computer set as default installation path the Recovery disk D which has my operating system. But...

I just installed a new internal HDD. First, I created a system image using windows backup. Then I made a windows recovery disk on CD. Next I took out the old HDD, and replaced it with the new one. The new one is hooked up to a different port with a different wire because it is a sata 6.0 gb/s...

My Fujitsu laptop with Win7 began hanging at the splash screen. rebooting brought up the startup repair options. That did not work & neither did a system restore. Diagnostics found nothing wrong. The Fujitsu recovery disk only reinstalls Windows, wiping out everything. I purchased and...

Ok I need a windows 7 factory setting recovery disk (which is what the OS was until I messed things up installing XP and now want back to 7) I have tried the F10 which people have told me to do but have got nowhere with it. So I need to get a factory recovery disk I have a legit code when I was...

Hello, My computer contracted the AntiMalware Doctor/Spyware Suite trojan several days ago. I was able to remove the majority of it, but upon booting AND connecting to the internet I would receive the following message: "Windows has encounterd a critical error and will restart in 1 minute."...

Since I noticed a lot of people have post threads to ask for suggestions about backup tools. It's time-consuming and boring to answer each of them. Hence I make a comparison about 3 best online backup tools and 3 best local backup tools to show the way to novices. (Don't forget to reply if you...

Something totally wierd and shocking happened with my machine running on Windows 7 today (25-06-10). This is what happened, everything was working fine till the evening. I was back home from a hard day, started my machine and i saw a message that windows has updates that needs to be...

When I start up my computer it shows NTFS volume label Acer C can't run due to error in recently installed software (I haven't installed any software in a long time, I have however gotten a new Targus High Speed SD/SDHC/MMC Card Reader/writer, which the software auto installed by windows) the...

Ill try to make this as clear as possible: A friend of a friend replaced the old hard drive on my computer with a new one. We do not have a recovery disk and he did not back anything up on a peripheral. This means no operating system and no nothing as far as I'm aware. So i purchased Windows 7...

Hey everyone. First off, Happy New Year! Feels good to be done with 2009 and have a fresh start :] That being said, I'm havig trouble with my operating system and was hoping someone here could help me out. I received a Missing Operating System error message upon boot and have unsuccessfully...

Well, I have stepped in it this time and boy could I use some help. Setup an XP/7 dual boot on two partitions on same drive. All good. Removed XP boot entry with easybcd. All good. Set 7 partition to Active. All good. Booting to 7 worked fine with the old XP partition still on the disk...

I currently have a Vista Home premium 32 bit on my Hp laptop. My laptop qualified for the Windows 7 free upgrade scheme. However the upgrade will only let me upgrade to Windows 7 32 bit, where as i wanted to a 64 bit windows ( i have been using that on my desktop and want to use it on my laptop...

I tried to install the win 7 upgrade on top of my Vista OS The directions said to have an external HD I did not have one and tried to install anyway. Now, when I turn on the computer I get the choice of Vista or Win 7 !? Also, my Recovery disk of 15 GB is full. Because it is full I cannot load...

Im wondering this question. If I lost my recovery disks and partition for windows vista since im soon getting windows 7 will i be able to download a like retail disk image of vista home premium from a torrent and use the laptop key on the bottom. The one on that sticker. Will it work like it...

Hi Everyone, System is completely up to date. I formated the HD and it will not read the recovery CD. I copied the recovery CD to a DVD and tried to boot from it. No good. Now what?