reformat

Hello, I have had Windows 7 Pro for about a month (upgrade from Vista Ultimate). I installed some Win 7 updates this morning and after the desktop restarted, I lost an entire external drive. The dialog box told me that to use the drive I would have to reformat it. I attempted to see if it...

Hello, I have a Windows 7 installation disc that I created. It has worked in the past because I have Windows 7 running on this computer now. I wanted to reformat but disc is not booting. Have gone into Bios and checked that, 1 as DVD, 2 as HDD no probs seemingly there. I have also tried it on...

Work PC: Windows XP, Dual Core E5200 2.5Ghz, 2GB RAM Home Desktop: see Link Removed The PC at work, although much slower than my desktop, seems to launch basic programmes like Google Chrome and MS Word much faster than my faster home desktop. I have no idea why. Originally, I thought it was...

I had to do the dreaded reformatt last 2 days ago and now i cant get to see my Card Reader Icons in "My Computer" The last time this happened all i had to do was tick a box in the Folder options "show all folders" but now that doesnt even do the trick :( The only way i can get to see them is...

Ok well my PC recently got a virus attack, I tried virus scans but nothing would work. It wouldn't even let me do a system restore. So the only option I had was a reformat, now i'm new to Windows7 and assumed it was similar to Windows XP where I could just put my disc in and it would reformat...

So i bought my copy of windows 7 with the students special for $30 at the beginning of the year. The thing is about that special is that there was no physical copy given to me; it was all downloads and ISO files. I am now needing to format my hard drive due to bugs and overall slowness and was...

After experiencing an unexplainable Kernel-Power 41 (63) crash at random seemingly unconnected intervals I decided to reformat my HD and start from scratch to try and fix the issue. Unfortunately my problem still exists. My computer hangs and will loop the last 0.1s of audio until I reach for...

I just have this agonizing problem. New hard Drive, New everything. The day before last everything was working fine. Any way, I had to re-format re-load however, when I tried to load Windows 7, it never makes it past the Microsoft logo on the black screen background and then the system boots...

90% of the time clicking on any drive C:\ D:\, cdrom drives, or even my network drives, opens up 2 new windows of that drive. I find it very annoying to have 3 open explorer windows when I only wanted 1. If I open a drive then close the two windows then open the drive again only one window...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.