reformatting

Hi all. I'm getting an error, but not seeing a viable solution anywhere online. Last year, I had upgraded from Windows Vista on my laptop to Windows 7. To do this, I purchased the .iso from Microsoft's website. I burned it to a disc and everything worked perfectly. This year, while doing my...

Dear Windows 7 community, :confused: I have searched for weeks, and read at least a half dozen threads on the common problem of the system hanging when offloading large files to an external hard drive. I have tried all the common recommendations (taking ownership / 'everyone' permissions /...

Hello everyone, I have been having random crashes which result in a BSOD for the last two months or so. Unfortunately reformatting and even removing an old hard drive I added a few months back has not solved the problem. I came across a video on youtube which lead me here. I...

A few months ago, I found out my processor was failing thanks to a computer store downtown. So we got a new one, and reformatted my hard drive in case. Then, I returned to the store again a few weeks later because I was beginning to get random BSODs. They said it was cause of a corrupt install...

I have an issue pertaining to admin permissions and read-only files. It seems all my files and folders are read only, and when I remove read only it automatically reverts back to read only when I check again. I am administrator with full privileges. Sometimes I get a prompt saying 'i need admin...

Hey guys I'm a new person around these forums. Just since yesterday my laptop was attacked by some kind of malware that tries to scare me into buying their products and hiding all my files. I managed to unhide all my files but somehow the virus still remains. I tried every solution on the web to...

Hi guys, I got a problem, around 6 hours ago, im reformatting my MSI VR440 laptop for Windows 7 OS, but the problem is, i stupidly turned off the laptop and went outside to settle some matters. When i get back, i already have problems on reformatting my laptop, and im getting errors, btw...

Hi, I have been getting Blue screens related to ntfs.sys and ntoskrnl.exe for last week. I tried reformatting my computer but they havent stopped. I am attaching the dump files and the cpuz screen shots. Thank you in advance :o

After reformatting my computer and reinstalling all I needed I am noticing some odd issues. For one some of my old programs/games that were not in the program files folder were still on my system and 2 after only installing 55 gigs of data on my 500 gigabyte hard-drive I only have 120 gigabytes...

I recently reformatted my PC and have noticed that areas which properly supported Unicode beforehand no longer do. For example, although Unicode text shows correctly in the majority of Windows Explorer, when I right click on files to view the properties the text field that shows the file name...

Hi :), I have a older hard drive that has win xp pro on it and I want to install it as a slave drive in my Win 7 ultimate computer. I was going to install it as a slave and make sure that none of the boot devices point to it in my bios. I will then reformat it. Will this cause any issues with...

I recently bought a new hard drive. I installed windows 7 on the new drive everything was fine until I went to register windows. I previously bought an upgrade key with a student discount. I still have my old windows xp key but when I went to register it said the key couldn't be used with a...

So, my desktop crashed and I had to reformat it. I decided that it was time to upgrade to 7 from XP. However, when I installed it I lost all my drivers (Network Driver included.) My question is; what driver do I need to install and where can I find it? I have tried a few and none seem to work...

Ok so for some reason my OS says i am not the administrator on my laptop although this is the only account on my laptop that is administrator I have tried to create a new account but for some reason it wont load the next screen when i click create new account another thing is when i try the run...

After reformatting windows 7, unable to send a clickable link... Say I;m looking at cnn,,want to send the page,,,file,,send,,,it just shows up as http addy,,not a clickable link someone can click on to go to page... Does the same thing in explorer or firefox,,windows live mail or...

I just reformatted my hard drive so I'm sure that has to be the cause for this. I have hybrid graphics with a Nvidia GeForce 9400M G and 2 GeForce GTX 280Ms. I have the hybrid graphics enabled but when I plug in my second monitor both screens go blank. I know the monitor isn't the issue because...

AntiVir got installed silently in the background of one of my computers last night and I am having huge trouble combating it. I cannot run any programs, I've triyed the SpyDoctor method but I cannot even run SpyDoctor either. I am left with either posting for support or reformatting my Windows...

I already reformatted my computer so don't ask me for logs and stuff but that was the only time something bad happened with my computer and I did not have a slightest idea how to solve the problem or what could cause it. Yesterday I got one Windows Update.. after install the computer said I...

I'm using a compaq CPU with window vista os after sometime my com keep appearing bsod even after I reformated it to window 7ultimate now it's is gettin more worst when Im reformating when the screen came out window is preparing for first use the bsod came out from thr.please help me.

OK Here's the story: This morning I was trying to get a program to work, and it wasn't. I found out I needed to change the system language to Japanese to do so. So i changed the system locale to Japanese.. and restarted my computer. Windows wouldn't start. It would reach up to the windows logo...