recovery drive

I bought a new computer yesterday and I cannot create recovery drive on it (Windows 8). It says: "We can't create a recovery drive on this PC. Some required files are missing. To troubleshoot problems when your PC can't start, use your Windows installation disc or media." I did not get...

The computer I'm having a problem on is a HP G6- 635 DX Windows 7 x64. About a week ago I decided to disable a few startup items because my computer took too long to load up. I think I disabled something that I shouldnt have because the next time I restarted I had gotten stuck on the "Starting...

Hello, I have my HP Laptop which came with Windows Vista as the OS. I want to upgrade to Windows 7 so I bought Windows 7 from my local store. I entered the disc and did boot from CD. It reached to the page where it shows the disk partition. I deleted the partitions and created new one...

This mess started after I had been playing Sims 2. The computer froze and BSOD popped up, in disbelief I didn't get any of the info from BSOD. I do remember it dumping memory or something. After the shutdown/restart Windows failed to load/start. After some investigation and a similar issue...

For the last couple of weeks (I was just given the laptop) my friends Dell Inspiron has been Blue Screen of Death'ing on start then rebooting (loop on this) - I was able to see the BSOD when I disabled the "reboot on error" and all I get is the following: Blue Screen STOP: 0x0000007B I...

In addition to task-oriented, wizard-driven options for image backup, Handy Backup v6.9.2 features advanced options for Windows 7 backup as well as network resource backup options. Program integrates with Handy Backup Disaster Recovery, which makes it possible to create bootable recovery drive...

I am helping my Dad with something. Here is the situation: He bought a new Dell Studio XPS laptop that came with Windows 7 64 bit, Home Premium. For some reason he bought the Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade from the Microsoft Store for $200+ a few days after receiving his new laptop because I think...

Dell just installed a new hard drive on my computer and the D: recovery drive is already full. Apparently everything is getting saved onto the D drive instead of the C drive. How do I get the computer to use the C drive as the primary drive???

Hey folks, brand new to this forum. Hope everyone is well this lovely Thursday morning. I have been reading article after blog after other forum threads on installing Win7. I'm almost ready to pull that trigger. I've got my Home Premium disc right here and have been juggling 32 or 64 bit. Most...

Looks like what happened to me has happened to others. When I installed 7 it put it on my Recovery D drive. Then I installed it correctly on my C drive. Now when the computer reboots I get the screenshot that shows Windows 7 twice. Somewhere on this forum I saw someone post the procedure to...

Hi, I have been using the Release Candidate of Windows 7 for a bit now and recently wanted to reinstall an overcrowded Vista which is on the C:\. Heres the Rundown before I continue: Before Windows 7: 3 Partitions: 1) A Recovery Partition 2) C:\ - Vista - 32-Bit 3) D:\ - Data After: 4...

I downloaded and tried to install Windows 7 RC Build 7100 yesterday because Windows 7 Beta kept saying it was going to expire by the end of month. When installing, it said I couldn't upgrade from the beta and forced me to custom install. It used my Recovery (D:) Drive to install on and now when...

It shows that my hard drive is 40gigs which is already almost full. I just recently installed Windows 7 after formatting my C drive. It is also not showing another my recovery drive which I also used for saving. The other drive, I can't find at all. Please see screen-shot to see what I'm...

Hello, first day out here and it looks awesome. I just purchased a full version of Vista Ultimate and I want to install it correctly on my drive which has a partition called D: Recovery. Do I need to eliminate this recovery drive and just have one big C drive or is there a reason for keeping a...

I am using a HP Pavilion dv6000 running Windows Vista Home Premium. My computer has numerous problems: it won’t load certain websites, windows updates won’t work, I can’t load or re-download windows defender, I can’t download software from Microsoft.com…..and so...