reformat

Hi, I'm currently have 1 SSD for OS and 2 HDD in RAID1 for data, all connnected to the same Intel controller on my EVGA X58 3x SLI motherboard. I'm planning to re-install Windows 7 x64 Pro on the SSD. While doing this, I would also like to reformat the 2 RAIDed HDD's. What are the steps that I...

hi everybody when i was using Windows XP, instead of open Windows Update, i was turning it off so it take to microsoft updates and download them to hard disk this was a useful since after reformatting don't bother do that online. can i do this in windows 7 ??? i am now looking for all...

I hate these new operating systems. While trying to install xp, my computer said that i couldnt because i have a newer operating system. So i went to reformat my hardrive, only to have my computer tell me that i couldnt because that is the drive that has my operating system on it and the online...

Dear all, Firstly, wow you have a wonderful forum here, seems nice, anyway I'll get straight down to my problem. I have a Windows Vista machine, a custom modified/built machine, I am not sure if it is a hardware error or compatability error but I can't find anything to say it isn't, It...

Hey everyone, I just recently purchased windows 7 ultimate 64bit, and i have ran into this problem for quite some time. When downloading things or streaming videos, my computer becomes very slow and choppy even though my cpu usage is low. I usually notice this problem when my pc has been on for...

I had windows seven installed first then i tried to install windows xp, not knowing the xp boot manager would over right windows seven boot manager, now it boots straight into windows xp. I have tried to use EasyBCD with no success. I can't boot up from the win 7 dvd because i only have the...

Hey guys! I have a problem with windows 7 clean install I had windows XP and I mounted Windows 7 iso onto my J drive with poweriso. I tried to install it but after i chose "home network" it told me that there was no disk in harddrive\dr1 or something. I pressed try again 3 times and took me to a...

Hello, I recently bought Windows 7 Pro from Microsoft's The Ultimate Steal program (I downloaded an ISO from them and burned it to a DVD). I am installing on a Dell inspiron 1525 laptop, which originally came with Vista. The Vista installation had become corrupt so I took the oportunity to...

Machine was working fine until about the time the message about Windows update causing a black screen of death came out. It's used as a media centre with twin dvb-s tuners and one dvb-t. That all works fine, and the machine goes back to sleep after half an hour. However, sometimes it just...

i work in a lab that recently bought a dell laptop (that was factory loaded with win 7) to run an instrument. the problem is that the software, ChemStation, is not compatible with win 7. i would like to completely remove win 7 and install xp. i have a copy of xp, but every time i boot from...

Hey, i've been having bluescreen issues since 2 weeks bassicly, i've been trying to fix the problem: but nothing helped; so i reformated to see if it fixed it, but apparently not i've still have bluescreen while playing games: i've got 3 bluescreen in the past 2 days, so i'm gonna finnaly ask...

I've been running the windows 7 RC at a 1280 x 1024 ever since I installed and the OS has worked like a dream. Recently I had a PC crash when missing around with a midi controller and on restart I was faced with a black screen (Not with the mouse and my computer) but the OS was still definitely...

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...

Hello everyone, Recently i face the following problems, i am one step before re-formating my pc and install Windows XP SP3, maybe someone here can help me out. I have Windows 7 Installed on my Pc (Quad Core with 6GB ram) and recently my pc started to behave strange. From time to time, my pc...

Hey, So i recently reformatted my computer and installed windows 7. Initially i didnt have my graphic card driver installed so the taskbar thumbnail previews would not appear as graphics but as tiles. once i installed the graphic card driver i went to this website to walk through re-enabling my...

I had posted earlier about an issue I was having with .Net Framework not installing. I contacted Microsoft and they brought me through a complete install--had to reformat the hard drive so that everything was taken out of it. Upon installing 7 as a clean/fresh install, the issues were resolved.

Link Removed due to 404 Error As you can see in that screen shot, my mp3 icons are acting weird. I couldn't recall anything that i have done with my PC to cause that problem. A night before it was fixed, i.e. the icons are still in their proper icons (as I've set in the preferences section of...

So guys first things first, GF's laptop was having some major problems so I decided to reformat and install windows 7, a legit copy I paid for from digital river, first problem I ordered 32bit they sent me 64bit, great so I have an incompatible copy, so I emailed them and asked them to switch it...

Hey everyone as the title says my video card has stopped responding. Its been working fine with windows 7 for almost a month now then one day I tried to watch a video and I started getting weird graphics all over my screen and a bsod soon followed. Everytime I restarted my computer I would get...