reinstall windows

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem that I've only just noticed because there hasn't been a time for me to install fonts until today. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit and I had to do a reformat about a week ago. I just noticed an odd thing with regards to the...

Before i begin i would like to state that it is only on very rare occasions that i sign up for anything just to post a thread so i am obviously determined to solve this :cool: i have the somewhat notorious problem of getting the black screen with the cursor in the middle upon startup. im...

Hi there , When ever I re-install my windows , I always start from scratch and prepare my drive. As I do it now , I insert the Windows XP pre- service pack cd and it has the option to completely delete partitions and format them from scratch. The Windows 7 copy I have is different and I...

I have Win 7 Pro bought online during last winter's college student sale. No original CD, but I burned two copies of the download. I'm trying to reinstall Win 7 on a new processor and motherboard. Backed up the old system drive and have been trying a clean install with no success. During file...

In Disk Management it show my hard drive disk 0 as No Name (OEM Partition), Recovery, and OS (C:), so my question is how do I format my hard drive, so that I do not have the recovery partion since I have the recovery disk, so I can get more disk space and reinstall windows? The reason I want to...

I have just bought a new laptop from iBuyPower for my graduation present, and as soon as I get it I try & update using windows update & it either freezes up on the control panel, or If i get this far it displays this message... Even after restarting my computer several times it says the same...

Hi all! So I just reinstalled windows 7 professional 64bit on a computer that had previously been running the same product perfectly fine. However, this time, every time I login I immediately see the message "User name or password is incorrect". After hitting ok to this message I get to...

Can anyone tell me what the default Path in windows 7 64 bit is???? My mistake i deleted what stod there before.. Its under my computer properties advanced systemconfig I need the default code otherwise i need to reinstall windows

Hi, first I'd like to apologise for my poor English. I have a laptop with 2 partitions (W7 and ubuntu). I do not have any problems starting ubuntu, but when I want to start Windows, i have got one of the following situations: 1) The login screen goes black (I can't even see the mouse...

I have created a unique problem with Windows 7. I don't even know what can possibly be done, but I won't lose any data if I have to reinstall Windows 7. For around a year and a half before Windows 7 came out, I had XP installed on my computer. When Windows 7 came out, I bought it, but I wanted...

Link Removed If you’re one of those who’ve bought a Windows 7 PC or a copy of the new operating system as a gift, Microsoft’s new Web site dedicated to how to install, reinstall and/or uninstall Windows might be a handy resource to have at your fingertips. The new site has...

On a Windows 7 Ultimate system, doing a Windows Update says it encountered an unknown error (8007273d). It doesn't take long to get that error. I've tried various things based on doing a web search on the error code, including uninstalling visual studio, resetting internet explorer settings...

saving NTUSER.DAT is easy, but how to restore it into current user account without restarting computer and having to create another account, login into that another account as administrator and copy file to that other account i am trying to restore NTUSER.DAT for ? There must be easier way to...

hello, i am running the evaluation copy of windows 7 ultimate build 7100. i have a problem, everytime i boot up windows. it will go through all the loading screens and then it will go to a black screen where the login screen should be. i figured out that when i push the power button on the...

Ok long story. I have 2 hard drives. HArd drive #1 has windows 7 RC1 installed, and #2 is storage. I got a copy of windows 7 pro and decided to install that and move over since RC1 will eventually vanish. I installed everything new and moved over music and everything to the #2 hard drive...

I would like to avoid reverting back to XP but this system originally had XP when i installed. Worked for a while then for some reason after installing and using DAEMON TOOLS, MAGIC DISK, and ALCOHOL 120% i have had some explorer.exe errors. Their is also CD/DVD drive that should not exist on my...

I have been running build 7100 x86 for a while now. This morning it started announcing "access denied" to both my hard drives and all their partitions. I had not made any changes to settings of any kind recently nor installed any hardware or software recently. The only account on the PC is set...

OK, I doubt this will have a solution that isn't really traumatic. But oh well. I was having a problem with some devices that were supposed to be 100% fully compatible with Vista Home Premium on My Dell Inspiron Desktop. Namely a SONY Camcorder that was being incorrectly identified and hence...

I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2. Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions. I shut down and it rebooted just fine. But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition: Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK I know these files...

I'm having a problem with Media Center playing TV from my Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE USB Stick and DVDs from both Media Center and Player. This was all working at one point and I changed absolutely nothing when it started doing this. I currently get the error: "Decoder Error: The video decoder has...