reformat

Recently I purchased a windows anytime upgrade from Win 7 HP to Win 7 Pro from Microsoft. The new version downloaded and upgraded with no assist from me. Microsoft also emailed me a new product key. My question is if/when I reformat my HD and want to reinstall Windows 7 Pro how do I do it? I...

In a nutshell - got a new Samsung ultra laptop, don't like the way the disk is structured and lack of facility for creating recovery disks so wiped the 500gb hard drive which is formatted to gpt, repartitioned to give me a 50gb partition for win8, 50gb partition for win7 and the rest reserved...

I recently bought and installed a new HDD in my desktop. The HDD is a Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue 64MB 7200RPM drive. After installing this new HDD and reformatting my computer I am continuously running into a BSOD. I myself am not extremely tech savvy, my computer knowledge is limited to...

An external USB-connected HDD is write-protected after reformatting. How do I remove the write-protection? I tried a tip I found on several sites where the suggested solution is to set the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies value to zero, but that didn't...

Microsoft phone help and geek squad both didnt know what was wrong... computer goes through the initial 5 phases of installing windows and then states it will restart in 10 seconds and counts down and restarts... from here it restarts and I get a black screen with blinking cursor and once I...

My computer has been getting BSODs for about about a month now. When it first started happening a month ago, my motherboard died and I got a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and graphics card. However, I continued to get the same problems with my new components. Since buying the new components, I've...

I'm trying to figure out what's causing the blue screen. I believe its possibly a driver for my video card or the PCI slot for it. Or it's possibly my video card some how took a **** again and wants to cause the crashes overheating. I just reformatted my computer installing a fresh Win7. Best of...

Hello all! I have been trying to fix a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional workstation in a domain environment. Basic system info listed below: Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333) System Manufacturer: Dell Inc. System...

My computer ended up with the malicious toolbar iminent. After multiple attempts to remove it I decided to reformat the computer, since my last backup is mercifully recent. However, when I attempted to run a repair disc, but in the middle of this I received the message in the thread's title...

If you aren’t a fan of Windows 8 but want a new laptop that comes with Windows 8 preinstalled, you’ll be happy to know you can actually downgrade it to Windows 7 without having to reformat. Here’s how. More » More...

Ten days ago, I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 ("What are you waiting for"-email from Microsoft). Within 6 days, I needed to refresh Windows 8 twice because of some crashes. After the second time "refresh", and reinstalling numerous updates for Win8, I turned the computer off. Next morning...

I just installed a 750 GB internal SSD and migrated many gigabytes of data to that drive after initializing and formatting, and as part of this process I used Microsoft's "Relocate" option of the Music folder properties. This was a very bad decision. The interface options did NOT correlate to...

Hey all I'm new to the forums. Just rebuilt me a new computer have a new mobo and new processor kept my semi old other parts I installed windows it was working fine but then my screen went blank and it said no signal dvi on my monitor and my computer restarted itself and it was doing several...

Hello friends, I have been experiencing BSOD problems and have the crash dump file from c:/windows/minidump. I've uploaded it here, and if anyone could offer me assistance in the diagnosis it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! -M Link Removed Edit: Prior to the previously...

I just received a new Dell Inspiron 15R-5520 64 bit laptop. I also ordered and received from Dell the Windows 8 OS DVD along with a Drivers DVD. I also own a valid Windows 7 OS with product key. I use Acronis True Image 2013 to backup and restore images of the OS. I wish to partition my HDD...

I had Intel HD 3000 graphics but when I reformatted my computer I now have, Intel Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Chip set and my adapter type is: Standard VGA Graphics Adapter also my resolution now is 1024x768. It used to be 1280x1024. What happened? When I try updating the driver it says its...

Apologies if this is elsewhere, but I've been searching Google for the past hour and am continuing to have issues, and can't seem to find the solution that works. I just got two new harddrives for my birthday - one for my desktop, and one for my laptop. The desktop drive is 3 TB, which Windows...

I am not the greatest PC user and have had BSOD problems with this computer for a while and just haven't dealt with them. As long as I am actively using the computer then they don't happen. It used to be much more sporadic and would happen if my computer was idle for a half hour or so. Now if I...

Hello, I'm new here, recently signed-up on this forum through my friends suggestions to seek for help here. So here's my problem, I have this netbook own by one of my acquaintance and he wanted it to be reformatted. First thing I did is to find the dedicated for this netbook drivers for win7...

Hello. so this is a simple question but i just wanted to ask because i wanted to make sure i know what i am doing. So my moms old MacBook is no longer functioning, broken. It's a really old computer (2006 model) and sense she's not using it i thought why not take the 300gb hard drive thats...