reformat

Hi. I have Windows 7 originally installed on an old HDD and recently purchased an SSD. How do I go about installing windows 7 into the SSD and deleting it from the old HDD? Is a reformat of the HDD the only way?

So, here's the story. One day, while I was browsing the internet, I noticed that my touchpad (yes, I'm using a laptop) won't work. I tried reinstalling the driver for the said hardware but it won't work. The pointer moves when I move my finger on the touchpad but it won't respond when I tap the...

So, I shutdown my computer this morning and it was installing 96 updates, so I left it and went to school. I came back after 6-7 hours and it was stuck on 68/96 updates installing, I left it for another 30 min and it was still on 68/96. I decided to press the reset button, even though it said...

I'm tasked with fixing this laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Build 7600 because of issues with it 'crashing'. Found it to be freezing randomly. I would log in, do nothing and let the system sit there and it would freeze eventually, I would be able to move the cursor but I could not...

i have searched the forum and havent found an answer to my question so this is my reason for posting HP Desktop Model # P6210Y Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS 6g ram(5.75 usable) AMD Athalon II x4 620 Processor 2.60 GHz So lately my computer just at random times decides...

Hi, I tried searching the forum first but . . . I recently reformatted my HP and though I figured out once before how to get rid of HP QuickWeb at start-up and permanently hide the dock, it seems I have gone senile; just can't figure it out. Maybe because a couple other weird glitches occurred...

Hey there! I'm newly registered to this site, but I've visited it in the past and it's helped me many times with my various technical problems on my desktop. I've got another one I was hoping someone could help me with. I'm kinda stumped since I only have a basic understanding of computers. So...

I keep getting random bsods periodically. The first one happened a couple of weeks ago after a virus or shall I say multiple viruses cropped up, and I had to reformat after it happened; my computer wouldn't start as every time I tried to start windows it would automatically restart when the...

Recency my HP laptop was going super slow and so I decided to use my recovery discs I had to reinstall Windows 7. I was running a dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Im not too tech savy and not entirely sure on how I managed to get this set up (lol). But I did. Basically when I started my...

I've been using Win 7 64-bit since the beta and no issues at all - until I installed SP1. Now I get constant lockups and it seems to be related to the video driver about 50% of the time. I've done a clean install of the latest driver, tried removing SP1, done a system restore to before SP1...

On 25th of February i started getting this problem. My main PC cant connect to the internet and my bros can, we use the same modem (modem only no router) its a Motorola SB5100. I used a ethernet cable to connect mine, and a USB to connect my bros with the modem, worked for a year then on 25th...

hi all. i'm facing a new annoying problem. i format the PC, but the built-in network card keep giving me, "No Network available", i tried to uninstall the driver and reinstall it, disable the the device and enable it, unplug the cable and replug it, and somehow it detect it but after long...

My system crashes and creates a crash dump file @ jst any time, then it restarts itself...i've done system restore thrice nd this has not rectified the problem. When it first started, d message it gives me is this Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen...

Friends laptop im working on had Vista, internet stopped working. Couldnt figured it out so i reformatted. Few days later, I am finally set up with Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit SP 1. Used a bootable flash drive, which was a task on it own to get working lol. Its a Toshiba laptop, According to...

Posted in incorrect forum: Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSoD 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hardware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for...

Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSod 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hard ware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for drivers and reboot freezes...

Hello, I've been having some frequent BSODs for the past couple of months. They usually happen when I play games but I've had them happen at other times too. A few things I've done: Reformatted and disabled fast user switching as someone once suggested to me. I tried about 3 other video cards...

Hey there, First off, im new here. So hi nice to see you and its my first time to use Windows 7 . Anyways, here's my problem. I just reformatted my netbook to home premium , i accidentally pressed the next button thats the time that i should put my product key, and yea its 30 days trial, and...

i'm been getting bsod since i changed my mobo, i reformatted my main drive so there shouldn't be any problem, but i get random BSOD from time to time, i also tried installing windbg but it get stuck somewhere like unloading symbols... attached is my minidumps TIA

So I recently reformatted one of my (oldish) HP laptops with Windows 7, and the hard drive is not happy with the driver that it's using. Once the system loads up, the hard-drive keeps lagging to read. It would read for a second, then stop for a second, read, stop, read stop. It's not the...