reformat

Hello all. I am in quite a predicament here. I recently installed Win 10 because it was time to reformat and I figured that an upgrade from win 7 was a good idea. After installing and using win 10 for a few days I decided it was not for me and used the system reset function on win 10 to wipe...

I'm going into a Clean install, and what does it do???? 1 - Does it Fixes Audio Problem and DNS connectivity 2 - Does it all Delete Users 3 - Does it Remove Viruses?? Please REPLY Cuz i'm really going to reformat my PC

Hi Forumers, LUGUY here. My computer has 4.00 of RAM, After I reformatted my Win7 Pro 64 bit to Win 7 32 bit I have only 2.75 GB Usable Memoty RAM in Computer- Properties, but in DRIVE C- Properties appear 432 GB of FREE space of 465 GB of Capacity , why this happen? or if this is normal? Thank...

I just reformatted my system drive and reinstalled Windows 8.1 yesterday. The only software I've installed so far is Chrome and Steam (just the Steam app, no games). But for some reason I'm using up 80 GB of space on my system drive. Windows can't possibly be using that much space, right? I...

I have windows 10 on my laptop, and now i need to reformat my laptop for some issues. after reformatting would i still be about to reinstall windows 10 or would it go back to windows 8.1

I just reformatted recently, wasn't having trouble, just felt it was time. After a fresh install of Windows 7 this started to pop up after trying to install graphics driver. I tried downloading again but I don't think it installed correctly. Looking in the device manager it tells me this...

Just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7. However upon launch, I found that it could not detect my graphics card nor could it detect my microphone and used the wrong configuration for my keyboard. I looked around but could not find much that fitted my CPU. I use a Radeon R9 280...

Assume I have a rather new external (Toshiba) 3TB USB harddisk. During the last days I experienced a data loss because one of the data blocks on the hard disk seems to get damaged. I run a surface test with one of these hardidsk management tools like Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows...

I have a Sony Vaio VGN NR220E. I bought it in 2008 with windows vista. It did not came with a reformating CD or anything. I am just assuming that the vista is installed in it. I love my laptop and want to keep it. My brother used it for some years. Now I find my laptop running with XP. In the...

Hello everyone, So here is my predicament, every day my machine blue screens with many different errors. I've tried to reformat and start over and that did not work. I have tried to upgrade to windows 10 that installation just completely failed so I kept windows 7. Not sure whether to just...

So with the release of windows 10 i tried to update my computer to allow me to get the free upgrade (didnt happen) I ended up with an error in windows update of "code 900070643" I have tried everything on the micorsoft support website and even had the support team take remote control of my...

64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...

Windows defender detected an attack and after it has been removed I am unable to access "my computer, my documents, folders I have created etc". I still have access to things such as icons on my desktop that are for games and programs but anything for file access and viewing that I get that I do...

Hi, I am running Windows Visat on my HP laptop. I have backed up my hard drive to an external hard drive using the Control Panel. But when I tried to use the Restore option in the Control Panel, it instructed me to restart my computer and click on the F8 key. But when I did that I didn't see...

I need to reformat my windows 7 PC, but I don't have a PS/2 mouse, only wireless/USB. When reformatting in the past I've gotten stuck before the USB drivers installed, when a USB mouse would not work. Previously I usually had a corded PS/2 mouse around and just plugged it in and kept going, but...

Hi, I bought my computer along time ago and it came with windows xp. It had an offer that let me upgrade to windows 7 for free. A year later, I bought windows 8 pro upgrade and installed that. After that, I was upgraded to windows 8.1 pro. Flash forward a bit, I've lost my windows 8 upgrade...

Hi I have a question. I bought my computer a few years ago. It came with windows xp, had a free upgrade to windows 7. I then purchased a windows 8 pro upgrade disk, installed that, and now I am running windows 8.1. Fast forward a few years, I've changed my computer case and lost everything...

After reformatting and reinstalling W7 Pro and getting it all set-up and updated i am going to do an image ( with one of the tools on UBCD). But it occurred to me that in the near future i am going to be upgrading my system entirely and am curious, what happens if i take the image of my current...

Hi guys, noob here, obviously, and am having problems with my aging Gateway FX P-7805u Laptop (AVG Free is my Anti-Virus, and I believe I just am using the default Windows Firewall)... Ok, so starting 2/21/14, as you will see in the attached files, I started having frequent BSODs with mainly...

Hey, I've never once, ever, reformatted my computer. I've had a variety of issues with my computer for /years/, windows installer.exe being unusable being the worst of the worst. I've always told people who tell me to reformat that it's just not an option as I don't have the original disks and...