reformatting

S.O.S PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Hi everyone!I have problem with windows installation.About a month ago I decided to upgrade from vista to 7.I made a bootable usb flash disk and installed the os without any problem.A week ago I reformatted my hard disk and tried to install again the same...

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. My laptop is an HP dv7t-2000. Everything worked fine until a windows update that I installed about a month ago. Basically every time I restart or shutdown my PC now, my ethernet, USB, and wireless adapter drivers will not load during startup or start...

I have Windows 7 on two computers. On one of the computers i want to downgrade from 7 to XP. I have the XP installation disk, but whenever I put the disk in to attempt to boot from it during startup, it bypasses it and boots normally. I checked the BIOS and disk is set to boot before the HD...

Hi all I know there is a thread running round with issues regarding Win 7 desktop not showing icons and the solutions to it. However as the title says it, even CTRL ALT DEL don't work. Just shows me a black screen which fades back to a iconless desktop. Solutions regarding finding...

hi everybody when i was using Windows XP, instead of open Windows Update, i was turning it off so it take to microsoft updates and download them to hard disk this was a useful since after reformatting don't bother do that online. can i do this in windows 7 ??? i am now looking for all...

Machine was working fine until about the time the message about Windows update causing a black screen of death came out. It's used as a media centre with twin dvb-s tuners and one dvb-t. That all works fine, and the machine goes back to sleep after half an hour. However, sometimes it just...

Hey, i've been having bluescreen issues since 2 weeks bassicly, i've been trying to fix the problem: but nothing helped; so i reformated to see if it fixed it, but apparently not i've still have bluescreen while playing games: i've got 3 bluescreen in the past 2 days, so i'm gonna finnaly ask...

Hello everyone, Recently i face the following problems, i am one step before re-formating my pc and install Windows XP SP3, maybe someone here can help me out. I have Windows 7 Installed on my Pc (Quad Core with 6GB ram) and recently my pc started to behave strange. From time to time, my pc...

Hey, So i recently reformatted my computer and installed windows 7. Initially i didnt have my graphic card driver installed so the taskbar thumbnail previews would not appear as graphics but as tiles. once i installed the graphic card driver i went to this website to walk through re-enabling my...

Hey everyone as the title says my video card has stopped responding. Its been working fine with windows 7 for almost a month now then one day I tried to watch a video and I started getting weird graphics all over my screen and a bsod soon followed. Everytime I restarted my computer I would get...

Hi, I have been using Windows 7 with some pretty aggravating issues. I reformatted the OS and it was working fine for about a week until my computer at startup started going to blue screen, with a message stating "physical crash memory" dumping to disc and it tries to load to 100 and that's...

Re-formatting disk stops my clean install. Windows wants me to enable the disc controller in the BIOS-menu, but there is nothing in my BIOS menu that will let me do that. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hi, I'm looking for some advice before I take the plunge and move to 64bit. I'm currently using Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit and I'm considering reformatting my hard drive (after backing up) and reinstalling (via a clean install) Windows 7 on the 64 bit format. I'm assuming that when I boot...

I know similar questions have been asked, but I never really found anything exactly like mine. I am running a dual boot of XP Pro 32, and Win7 RC . I bought the student upgrade to Win7 and managed to get a working ISO, and get it burnt to a DVD. But my Windows 7 64 wont boot. I do have a 64 bit...

Hello All, I had XP Pro installed on one drive then I installed Win 7x64 on another. After setting up 7 without any hassles I rebooted and received this error: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check...

I'm currently downloading an ISO file of Windows 7 Professional, and to be quite honest, I don't know what to do once I make the DVD. Does it Auto-Run? If not, what steps do I need to take to install it? Will it delete my files and folders since I'm changing the OS? I'm not an idiot with...

Hi, Im new around here and I am not really good with computers/techinical stuff so I got some questions to ask. Would appreciate it if people around here are willing to help me. The thing is that recently, I found out that I qualify for some MSDNAA thingy and could get to download Windows 7 RTM...

Well, more like 2 problems only to be exact. I cannot seem to delete a movie file from my computer... or transfer it... or rename it. It is forever stuck on Imageshack - problemv Originally i couldn't even right click it but i managed to fix it using the shell ex configure. Also, my SD card...

I need help to fix a corrupt registry on my windows 7 rc. Heres the symptoms. #1 - cannot system restore cause the drive is not "system protected". #2 - the auto repair or w/e won't work. #3 - i cannot even get past the screen with the progress bar and windows logo. (I get the blue screen of...

Using sfc.exe /scannow yields this error "Windows resource protection found files but was unable to fix them, details are included on the CBS.log After checking out the CBS.log this seems to be the problem: CSI 000005f3 [SR] Verify complete 2009-08-03 19:23:59, Info CSI...