reformat

Has anyone tried or know if you can do an install on an old Compaq. I have one that needs to be reformatted and we have lost or never even had the disks for this a long time ago, at least 5 years ago. I glanced through their website for the model number and they only had software for XP. From...

Hi: I reinstalled Windows Vista and now can not connect to the internet. I am trying to connect with XP Laptoop to PC Vista Gateway with ethernet cable and I check the workgroup in (Control Panel and System ) and they are the same in XP and Vista. If there is more setup, let me know...

Ive been running Windows 7 64bit for a year now, but lately when ever I try to view windows7forums.com my browser seems to crash if I post or refresh a page. Ive tried updating all my drivers and Ive even reformatted Windows, each time was a clean install so I dont think it is that. I thought it...

those 3 dont work anymore since i reformatted. there is no reason i can find so i am stuck with chrome which i am told spies on everybody. i dont have any stats as to why the other 3 dont work and cant figure out how to delete ie and cant find ie8 to download anywhere. opera works sometimes but...

I have windows 7 installed on my laptop but want to go back to XP when i boot the laptop from my XP cd it tells me that I have no harddrive installed and that i cant reformat im not sure what to do, any help would be appreciated.

I have an account with IEEE and I downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate RC and installed it on a laptop. Is there a time when Windows 7 will expire and I have to reformat to a previous Version? I did not think so but right on top of the clock it said evaluation copy (build 7100) Thank you for your...

Hi guys, i threw in a Compro videomate E900F in my system yesterday, and im trying to set up WMC to watch tv. Problem is, during the TV setup it hangs at Downloading TV setup Data. I left it overnight and it is still at 0% My internet connection is fine, and the card itself is working great...

I had the Ralink RT61 driver and it was working well, it automatically downloaded with windows, I recently reformatted my computer though due to a virus and now it won't automatically download the right one. Every time it tries to download a driver for the wireless card it downloads a driver but...

I am having one heck of a time trying to install Windows 7. I know there's nothing wrong with the ISO I burnt, I booted it from the disc and it acts like it's installed. Then it restarts and says "Starting Services" and then I get a message saying "The computer restarted unexpectedly or...

I could really use some good advice. Currently running Vista Ultimate, but no clue where my activation key is. Long story, but my system is cluttered with a lot of partially uninstalled apps. Now, I am seriously thinking of bidding on eBay for Win Vista Business. Questions: 1] If I don't...

So I backed up everything and I want a fresh copy of windows 7 on my pc. I started the setup, and I pressed the Format button on my main partition. It only took a second... and it said it was formatted. From reformatting my pc's all my life it usually takes at least 15 minutes to reformat my...

I'm trying to reformat and install Vista Home. I have the computers (Doing 2 Computers) set to boot from dvd rom, when the message hit any key to boot to disk the keyboard will not work. The same thing happens when booting to F8, keyboard will not work for those. Now I can hit delete key or...

I am having a very strange issue during the install. I recently got some new components. My old computer included 2 80GB drives in RAID-0 (SATA) for the OS and a 320GB for files. I decided to just split the two 80GB drives between two computers for the OS and put the 320GB in one for files and a...

I used to have Vista on my Dell XPS m1530, but I installed Windows 7 over it a few weeks ago. It worked fine until now. After the BIOS loading screen, it just says "NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart". I searched for solutions to this online, but none of them worked. I then tried to...

I recently installed Windows 7 onto my PC at home.. It seemed to install ok but shortly after startup it blue screens, dumping the memory and restarting the computer. Originally I thought this could be a problem with my HD, I had to use Partition Magic in order to dual boot XP and 7 and I...

Yep I did it. I re-formatted my drive and installed the full version of Windows 7 Beta, not the upgrade.... I was having a few problems with buggy software and too many restores.......I had a whole list of problems of which all except one has been resolved, and that may be a problem with a...

I decided to try out the beta and put it on my sons computer since he was needing a format anyway. It is an AMD 64 bit processor with a Seafate 75 gig IDE 2 gigs of ram and an ATI 1950pro. Ran Vista fine. Anyway, I did a reformat of a the hard drive and all goes well it copys files and then...

downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer shop...

I have installed a video card awhile back and have a few hypothetical questions. If I had a problem that should pop up that I couldn't fix and need to reformat can I leave my video card and a proceed as normal. Would I have to remove card because it is not part of original system configuration...

hi i got a Q due to after i reformat this windows vista after its completed and restart the com it came out like this. booting window vista' acpi vista loader 2.1.2 acpi; reclaim memory not found! done! fallback 1 find --set-root /bootmgr error 17: file not found booting windows...