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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...

I have a Dell system with 2 internal hard drives. I have backed up all of my data to the second hard drive. When doing a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 will it reformat both drives or can I tell it which ones to format?

Hello my name is zane So I will be recieving a windows 7 upgrade disk because I bought a new laptop during the selected months. And I am hoping to clear some things up before I switch from vista My System:HP Pavilion Dv7 with windows vista 64 bit Well the thing is I hate almost all...

mainly valve cause thats all i really play. ok well ive had this problem before and i had fixed it, came down to it being my caviar green 1tb drive, then went out and got a caviar black 1tb, and that had fixed it for a while. now its sort of back. this time it happens once in a blue moon. and...

I've been trying to download windows 7 pro 64 bit for the last few days. I purchased it from Digital River through the Microsoft website. Every time I attempt to download it, it get to about 68% and stops completely. It just so happens that 68% is 2044 MB or about 2 GB. I'm wondering if...

I have windows 7 build 6100 .. and i heared that there're a lot of builds in front of this one, i.e. 6800 or more my question, should i reformat my PC and install the latest build in order to be able to get all features of the latest build, or it's enough to stay on my build (6100) and keep...

I want to get a clean install and reformat my hard drive. I guess when you load w7 from your desktop you do not have the option of reformatting. If you want to reformat I herd you have to boot from the cd. But I bought w7 through a download. I downloaded the pro 64 bit version. How do I make my...

I will be installing Windows 7 this week on a PC currently using XP. I understand that the XP to 7 upgrade path requires a clean install. And I assume with this a reformat of the system disk. This PC has two drives - C: and D:. These are two different physical drives. Not partitions of one...

I just installed Win7 and everything seems fine so far. The issue came when I reboot the machine where it stopped with the error "NTLDR is missing". Strange is it can boot up just fine if I put the Win7 installation DVD in the optical drive, even if the boot up was set to HDD as first in...

I have had to reformat 4 times in the past week. Running windows 7 on my AAO AOA150 mini laptop. I have run memtest86+ (finally found a easy to use usb tut, that worked) and passed 5 tests over night, no errors. Yes it is new ram. This install ive used sfc /scannow, nothing wrong. checked the...

Has anyone had an in place upgrade from Vista x64 fail because of an "incompatible NTFS version"? I imagine this is because I have cloned my hard drive prior to doing an in place upgrade. Does anyone know of a way around this issue? Im thinking that it might be possible to backup my...

Has anyone had an in place upgrade from Vista x64 fail because of an "incompatible NTFS version"? I imagine this is because I have cloned my hard drive prior to doing an in place upgrade. Does anyone know of a way around this issue? Im thinking that it might be possible to backup my...

Hi, I had a problem before with Windows 7 and I recieved excellent help. Hopefully you will be able to help me with this as well. I recently reformatted my PC and installed Windows 7. Upon installing, everything went as planned however I did notice one thing out of the ordinary. After the...

I have win 7 working well on a partition, now when my pre order disc arrives it will be used to upgrade Vista on C drive and I want to get rid of the 7RC can I just delete it or do I have to uninstall ? I would like to keep the files and programs on the partition so dont really want to reformat...

I’m currently running Windows Vista Home Premium (upgrade from XP) 32 bit and planning to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit. I have 2 drives C&D, OS is on C. I understand that I will need to do a clean install to go from 32 bit to 64 bit. My question is: Since I have a lot of programs on the...

Hi there. Earlier today my computer 'froze' (cursor was still active but firefox and then explorer got the shady, frozen screen, screen) and I had to manually power it down. Upon restarting, I hit 'start windows normally' and it then loaded through to the windows 7 logo screen and froze...

So my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit edition just started locking up, and wouldn't even respond to a Ctrl+Alt+Delete. In the end I had to just push the power off button on my PC. However, when I went to turn it back on, it now just reboots when trying to start windows. I didn't add any new...

I've been having tremendous difficulty backing up my drives. I keep getting the following atapi and volsnap source errors in event view - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. volsnap - The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure...

A friend installed W7 RC on my son's computer and it is now suddenly shutting down. I read some posts online that point to Windows 7 being sensitive to Video card heat so whenever he watches a movie on his computer his video card heats up and windows shuts down. He never had that problem with XP...